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OF OBERLIN COLLEGE
"new series No. 7

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE FOR 1902-03

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OBERLIN COLLEGE

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE FOR 1902-03

PRESENTED TO THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING, NOVEMBER i8, 1903

OBERLIN OHIO

PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE

NOVEMBER 15, 1903

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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Printing and Publishing Co.

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Contents

President's Report, S

Reports of Officers,

Secretary, 77

Librarian, 98

Dean of Women, 104

Director of Men's Gymnasium, . . . 108

Director of Women's Gymnasium, . . in

Acting Dean of College Men, . . . 112

Dean of the Theological Seminary, . . 113

Principal of the Academy, . . . . 116

Director of the Conservatory, . . . 118

Chairman of the Summer School, . . 120

Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, 123

Appendix, Statistics of Instruction, . . 125

Treasurer's Report, .... . 133

Report of the Auditing Committee, . . . 157

Actions Taken at the Meeting of the Trustees,

Nov. 18, 1903, 158

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The Annual Report for 1902-03

Presented by the President to the Trustees at the Annual
Meeting, November i8, 1903.

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College :

Gentlemen : As President of the College, I have the honor to
submit the following report, for the academic year 1902-03.

DEATHS. .

Two members of your own circle have been removed during
the year by death : Professor William B. Chamberlain, of Chicago,
who died March 7, 1903, and Mr. Dan P. Eells, of Cleveland,
who died at Rocky River August 14, 1903.

Professor William Benton Chamberlain.
Professor Chamberlain was for so many years closely con-
nected with the College as student, teacher, and trustee, that in his
death the College loses one of its warmest and most valued friends.
The funeral services both at Oak Park and at Oberlin made mani-
fest the remarkable personal hold that he had upon great numbers
of men. It was then fully seen, perhaps, for the first time, how
large a place he had won for himself in all the higber life of the
city of Chicago, and how noble a representative of Oberlin he had
been in all the years since his resignation as a member of its
Faculty. The beautiful memorial pamphlet issued by the family
embodies a recognition of him wholly deserved. His relation to
Oberlin had been so close, and his love for her so deep, that it was
but right that his body should be brought back to Oberlin for

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burial. Your own minute concerning him fittingly recites his
work for Oberlin, and should find its place here in the official
publications of the College :

"The Trustees of Oberlin College desire to put on record their deep
sorrow and sense of profound personal and public loss in view of the
death of Professor William Benton Chamberlain, D. D., which occurred
March 7, 1903.

"During the larger part of his active life Professor Chamberlain was
identified with Oberlin College, and in spirit and purpose and active interest
he was emphatically an Oberlin man.

"Entering the Preparatory Department as a self-supporting student
in 1870, he worked his way through the different courses and was gradu-
ated from the College in 1875, and from the Theological Seminary in 1881.

"His proficiency in music and in rhetorical expression determined his
career. While a college student he was made a teacher, and later an In-
structor in Vocal Music in the Conservatory, which latter position he held
until his graduation from the Seminary, with the exception of two years
which he spent in the School of Vocal Art in Philadelphia. For thirteen
years following he held successively the positions of Instructor in Vocal
Music and Elocution in the Conservatory and College, and Professor of
Elocution and Rhetoric in the College and Seminary, until in 1894 he
accepted an appointment to the chair of Elocution and Sacred Music in
the Chicago Theological Seminary.

"For more than fifteen years during his life in Oberlin he was the
devoted and enthusiastic leader of the choir of the First Church.

"He was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1881, and his services in
the supply of churches were much sought and were highly appreciated.
It was but a well deserved tribute which this Board bestowed when in
1899 it conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

"The same year Dr. Chamberlain was elected by the alumni of the
College as their representative upon this Board of Trustees, and in this
office he has served with us until his death.

"A wise counsellor always, a faithful and devoted teacher, a public-
spirited citizen, a warm personal friend, a brotherly man to all with whom
he had to do, able, versatile, vigorous, and genuine, his has been a noble
Christian life which has made the world brighter and better, and which
now enriches heaven. Through our own sorrow in the loss of this faithful
co-laborer and friend, we enter into the sorrow of his stricken family, and
bear to them our tender sympathy."

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Mr, Dan Parmelee Eells.
Mr. Eells's death occurred in his 78th year. He was elected
a Trustee of Oberlin College in the year 1876, and continued his
connection with the Board until the time of his death. During
this long term of service as Trustee of the College, he amply
proved himself an earnest friend and wise counsellor, and rendered
the College many services. He was for many years a large factor
in the business life of Cleveland. He was a .man of warm heart
and generous impulses, and gave largely to many private charities.
He was identified with most of the older beneficent enterprises of
Qeveland, having had a share in the work of the Young Men's
Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association,
Protestant Orphan Asylum, Children's Aid Society, Bethel Union,
Humane Society, and Bible Society. He was a charter member of
the Second Presbyterian Church, and at the time of his death an
elder in that church, and he gave generously toward the building
of various other churches. He was a Trustee not only of Oberlin,
but of Lake Erie College and of Lane Seminary. In all these
varied activities he showed genuine personal interest, purposing
to count as a real, and not merely a nominal, friend. The strength
of any institution lies in no small measure in such loyal sup-
porters.

RESIGNATIONS AND CHANGES.

Trustees.
At the last annual meeting, Mr. Amzi L. Barber, General
Giles W. Shurtleff, and Dr. Judson Smith were elected to suc-
ceed themselves, for the term expiring January i, 1909; Dr.
Smith being elected by the alumni as their representative for this
term. Mr. Merritt Starr was also re-elected by the alumni to fill
the unexpired term of Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston, resigned. Mr. D.
Willis James, of New York, was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of President Dan F. Bradley, but on account
of his own health felt obliged to decline the election. At the
meeting of the trustees in June, Mr. E. K. Warren, of Three

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Oaks, Michigan, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr.
James's declination, for the term expiring January i, 1905, and
Mr. Charles Finney Cox, of New York, for the term expiring
January i, 1909. Mr. Warren has felt unable to accept his elec-
tion for the present, on account of special duties now pressing
upon him ; but the President cherishes hope that Mr. Warren may
later consent to serve upon the Board. The terms of office of Dr.
Allen, Dr. Cowles, Dr. Mills, and Dr. Tenney also expire January
I, 1904. The successors to Dr. Allen and Professor Chamberlain
as Alumni Trustees have already been elected by vote of the
alumni, and will be reported for the first time, according to cus-
tom, at the meeting of the Board. The successors to Dr. Cowles,
Dr. Mills, and Dr. Tenney should be elected by the Trustees at
this meeting ; and the vacancies caused by the declination of Mr.
Warren and by the death of Mr. Eells should also be filled.

Faculty,

The terms of service of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Newcomb, as In-
structor in Anatomy, and of Miss Caroline Sowers, as Instructor
in Drawing and Painting, naturally terminated with the return
from their year's leave of absence of the regular instructors in
those departments. The work in both cases was carried with
entire success. Miss Harriet Eva Penfield, after very efficient
work as Assistant in Philosophy, resigned her position at the
close of the college year to accept an instructorship in Philosophy
at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois. Miss Inez Frances
Stebbins resigned her position as Assistant in Botany to become
Professor of Botany in Huguenot College, Wellington, Cape
Colony, S. Africa. The character of Miss Stebbins' work as
assistant gives every promise of high success in her new position.
Mr. James Judge Jewett resigned as Assistant in Physics, to
accept a position as Principal of the High School at Casper,
Wyoming.

No resignations or changes among either the Trustees or
Faculty have been necessitated this year by ill health.

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Absence on Leave.

Professor John R. Wightman, of the Chair of Romance
Languages, returned at the beginning of the year from his fruitful
year of absence for travel and study abroad.

For the year 1902-03, leave of absence was granted to two In-
structors : Miss Eva May Oakes, Instructor in Drawing and Paint-
ing, and Dr. Miriam T. Runyon, Instructor in Anatomy. Pro-
fessor John Fisher Peck, the Principal of the Academy, was also
absent during the Spring term, his office work being carried by
Professor Shaw and Mr. Earl F. Adams, and his teaching by Mrs.
Herbert Harroun.

Miss Oakes spent her year largely in further study in New
York City, and feels that the results will prove of decided value
to her in her further teaching. Dr. Runyon spent eight months
of her year abroad in further study at Berlin, Vienna, and Paris,
and the rest of the year in travel, chiefly in Switzerland and Italy.
Professor Peck took his leave of absence to visit and study more
carefully a large number of the best secondary schools of the
country. East and West. There can be no doubt of the value to
our work here of such inspection of the best methods elsewhere.

For the college year 1903-04, leave of absence has been granted
to five members of the Faculty : Mr. Frederick Anderegg, Pro-
fessor of Mathematics ; Miss Arietta Maria Abbott, Professor of
German; Mr. William Jasper Horner, Instructor in Singing and
Public School Music; Mr. George Carl Hastings, Instructor in
Pianoforte and Organ ; and Mr. Orville Alvin Lindquist, Teacher
of Pianoforte. Mrs. Adelia A. Field Johnston, Professor of
Mediaeval History, also has been granted leave of absence for the
first semester of the present year. Professor Anderegg expects
to spend his year chiefly in study at the University of Berne, Pro-
fessor Abbott at the University of Berlin, Mr. Homer in study at
Berlin, and Mr. Hastings and Mr. Lindquist at Leipzig. Mrs.
Johnston will take the time for travel and study, especially in the
line of the history of architecture, in Sicily and Egypt. In Pro-

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fessor Johnston's case, the courses of the second semester will
simply be omitted, and those for the first semester will be given in
the second. In the other cases, the work has been satisfactorily
provided for, partly by new appointments and partly by omission
for the year of certain courses.

Besides the absences during the college year, already noted,
a considerable number of the Faculty were abroad for travel or
study for the entire vacation. This number included Dr. Alice
Hanson Luce, Dean of the Women's Department and Professor of
English; Dr. Delphine Hanna, Director of the Women's Gym-
nasiimi and Professor of Physical Training; Mr. Ernest Ludlow
Bogart, Professor of Economics and Sociology ; Mr. William Kil-
gore Breckenridge, Professor of Pianoforte; Mr. John Taylor
Shaw, Associate Professor of Latin ; Mr. Kirke Lionel Cowdery,
Associate Professor of French; Mrs. Mary Taylor Cowdery,
Tutor in French; Mr. Charles Sutphin Pendleton, Tutor in
English; Mrs. Amelia Hegmann Doolittle, Teacher of Piano-
forte.

APPOINTMENTS.

My own election as President of the College occurred at the
last annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, November 19, 1902.
The public inauguration exercises proper were on the morning of
May 13, 1903, and the inauguration of Professor Bosworth as
Dean of the Seminary also occurred on the afternoon of May 14.

A complete list of the appointments, falling within the year
covered by the report, follows:
Confirmed at the Special Meeting, held in Cleveland, February 5, igos.

Edward Increase Bosworth, as Dean of the Theological Seminary.

Simon Eraser MacLennan's title changed from Professor of Psy-
chology and Pedagogy to Professor of Philosophy and Psychology.

Harriet Eva Penfield, as Assistant in Philosophy and Psychology, for
the remainder of the year; new appointment

(To begin with the College year, 1903-04.)

Edward Alanson Miller, as Dean of College Men and Professor of
Pedagogy, for two years; new appointment.

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Louis Eleazer Lord, as Instructor in Latin and Greek, for two years;
new appointment.

Edwin Fauver, as Instructor in Physical Training, for two years;
new appointment.

ConHrmed at the Semi-Annual Meeting, June 23, 1903.
(To begin with the College year 1903-04.)

Kirke Lionel Cowdery, as Associate Professor of the French Language
and Literature.

William DeWeese Cairns, as Instructor in Mathematics and Survey-
ing in the College Department; reappointment.'

Mary Eleanor Barrows, as Instructor in English Composition, for two
years; reappointment.

Ernest Sutherland Bates, as Instructor in English Composition, for
one year; new appointment.

Albert Edward Gubelmann, as Instructor in German, for one year;
new appointment.

Thomas Maynard Taylor, as Instructor in Chemistry, for two years;
reappointment.

Kate Waldo Peck, as Instructor in Singing in Oberlin Conservatory
of Music; new appointment.

Wilfred Hobson Sherk, as Tutor in Mathematics in Oberlin Academy,
for one year; reappointment.

Mrs. Alice Mead Swing, as Tutor in German in Oberlin Academy,
partial work, for one year; reappointment.

Earl Foote Adams, as Tutor in Physics in Oberlin Academy, for one
year; reappointment.

Seeley Kelley Tompkins, as Tutor in Declamation in Oberlin Academy,
for one year; reappointment.

Alice Chipman McDaniels, as Tutor in German in Oberlin Academy,
for one year; reappointment.

Edward James Moore, as Tutor in Mathematics in Oberlin Academy,
for one year; new appointment

Henry Chester Tracy, as Tutor in Botany and Zoology in Oberlin
Academy, for one year; new appointment.

Dudley Billings Reed, as Tutor in History in Oberlin Academy, for
one year; new appointment.

Charles Sutphin Pendleton, as Tutor in English Composition in
Oberlin Academy, for one year; new appointment.

Florence Mary Fitch, as Assistant in Philosophy and Secretary to
the President, for two years ; new appointment.

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kobert Logan Baird, as Assistant in Zoology and Geology, iEor otit
year; new appointment.

Mary Theodosia Currier, as Assistant Dean of the Women's Depart-
ment, for one year; reappointment.

Inez Frances Stebbins, as Assistant in Botany, for one year; reap-
pointment.

Charles Hulburd Burr, as Assistant in Physics, for one year; new
appointment.

William Henry Chapin, as Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, for
one year ; new appointment.

Jacob Franklin Alderfer, as Teacher of Organ in Oberlin Conservatory
of Music; new appointment.

Bruce Headley Davis, as Teacher of Pianoforte in Oberlin Conserva-
tory of Music; new appointment.

Estelle Reed, as Teacher of Public School Music in Oberlin Conserva-
tory of Music; partial work; new appointment.

Lila Julia Wickwirc, as Teacher in the Women's Gymnasium, for one
year; reappointment.

The following persons as teachers in the Men's Gymnasium, for one
year, partial work: Earl Foote Adams, Seeley Kelley Tompkins, Dudley
Billings Reed.

The appointment of Professor Bosworth as Dean of the Theo-
logical Seminary has been received everywhere with great enthu-
siasm, and there can be no doubt that it means a distinct strength-
ening of the Seminary in all lines. The theological department
has never had, in so distinct a way as is now proposed, a separate
administrative head. And the closer organization thus made pos-
sible has already manifestly affected the Seminary life in many
ways.

The appointment of Edward Alanson Miller as Dean of Col-
lege Men also marks a very distinct step in advance. Hitherto the
work of this office has had to be carried by a member of the
Faculty already having full work in his teaching. In Mr. Miller's
appointment, however, it is planned that he shall have fully half
his time to give directly to the interests of the college men. And
the appointment should make it certain that these general interests
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that has hardly been possible before. The large increase in recent
years in the college department itself also makes more necessary
the recognition of this deanship as a distinct office, as does also
the increasing amount of general work naturally required from
the President. Mr. Miller brings to his work in this office and to
his pedagogical teaching, not only the advantage of most success-
ful and valuable experience in public school work, and of graduate
study along pedagogical lines, but also the force of a personality
certain to command the full respect of the men with whom he
will have chiefly to do. The President anticipates large results
from this appointment.

Professor MacLennan's change of title naturally follows from
the bringing in of Mr. Miller for the pedagogical work, and states
accurately the teaching to be done by Dr. MacLennan, and is in
line with Dr. MacLennan's own desire.

The transfers of Mr. Cowdery, of the department of French,
and of Mr. Cairns, of the department of Mathematics, to full
work in the College Department, and the appointments of Mr.
Lx)rd in the departments of Latin and Greek, of Mr. Bates in
English Composition, of Mr. Gubelmann in German, of Mr.
Tracy in Botany and Zoology, of Mr. Reed in History, of Mr.
Pendleton in English Composition, of Mr. Baird in Zoology and
Geology, of Mr. Chapin in Chemistry, all indicate the enlargement
of the teaching force approved by the Trustees at the last annual
meeting, and made necessary by the large increase in the number
of students in the college department, and by the extension of the
curriculum in the Academy as recommended by the special Com-
mittee of the Trustees upon the Academy. These appointments
in every case are believed to be well deserved and to insure work
of high quality. The full effect of this enlargement of the teaching
force is of course not fully felt in the year upon which we are naw
entered, on account of the absence for the year of Professor
Anderegg and Professor Abbott. But the appointments already
mean that the teaching in the college department can be done much

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more satisfactorily, and that the curriculum of the Academy has
been very distinctly enriched.

The appointment of Mr. Edwin Fauver as Instructor in the
Men's Gymnasium is not only a well-deserved recognition of the
valuable work Mr. Fauver has been doing for the College, but
indicates as well the strengthening of the department of Physical
Training for Men.

It is hoped that the appointment of Dr. Fitch, who takes up
the work done during the second half of last year by Miss Pen-
field, may enable the President to continue to carry safely his
previous work in teaching, and at the same time make possible a
better organization of the entire work of the President's office.
Miss Fitch comes to her work fresh from the winning of her
doctorate at the University of Berlin after three years of philo-
sophical study in Germany, and is thoroughly competent to give
the President such assistance as he may need in any of his
courses, as well as in the other work of the office.

Mr. Moore's appointment in Mathematics in the Academy
does not mean an extension of that work, but follows from the re-
adjustment of the teaching force required by the transfer of Mr.
Cairns to full work in the College Department.

The appointment of Mr. Burr is to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation, already mentioned, of Mr. J. J. Jewett.

Four new appointments, it will be noticed, are also made in
the Conservatory. These are intended to fill the vacancies caused
by the absence of Mr. Horner, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Lindquist,
and to provide as well for some additional work.

MATERIAL EQUIPMENT.

The New Half-Million Movement

The most notable event of the year under this head has been
the offer, by an anonymous Boston donor, of $50,000, afterward
increased, at the President's request, to $100,000, conditioned on
the raising of a half million dollars for either endowment or

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equipment by January i, 1904. The largest sums that have been
so far definitely pledged toward this new Half Million Fund are
$15,000, promised by Mr. F. Norton Finney, and to be added to
the Finney Memorial Chapel Fund, and a further pledge of
$25,000, also anonymously given. Toward this fund should also
be counted at least $4,000, as involved in the partial gift of the
new organ, now being placed in Warner Concert Hall, and a
number of smaller gifts, aggregating about $10,000, and most of
them specifically mentioned in the reports of the Librarian, the
Dean of the Theological Seminary, and the Treasurer. The gen-
erous pledge of the Musical Union to give $2,000 toward the new
organ is here included, and deserves particular notice. Altogether,
there is, thus, about $154,000 pledged or paid in since the Boston
donor's offer, which can be counted toward the new Half Million
Fund. Plans have been made which it is hoped will insure some
other large contributions. It is greatly to be desired that the
Fund should be entirely completed at the time indicated by the
Boston donor. But this is hardly possible wthout further large
individual gifts. The College's natural constituency of smaller
givers was thoroughly canvassed in connection with the previous
half-million movement, completed last year.
The Memorial Arch,
The completion of the beautiful Memorial Arch, erected chiefly
through the gift of Mr. D. Willis James, of New York, belongs to
the year just closed. The Arch has been mentioned in the two
preceding annual reports, and there needs only to be added Jiere
the record of its dedication in connection with the inauguration
exercises, on the morning of May 14. Dr. Judson Smith, Secre-
tary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions, presided, and Dr. Frank S. Fitch, of Buffalo, delivered
the dedicatory address, the prayer of dedication being made by
Dr. Henry M. Tenney, of Oberlin. In connection with this
dedication of the Arch was also inaugurated a new feature of
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Senior Qass, and under appointment by the American Board,
delivered the "Monument Oration," which was responded to by
Mr. Guy Hugh Lemon, of the Middle Qass. It is proposed to
make two such addresses at the Memorial Arch a part of the
closing exercises of each Seminary year. This will tend to bring a
high note of Christian dedication into those exercises. The dedi-
cation of the Memorial Arch was certainly one of the most im-
pressive things connected with the inauguration; and it has
already become clear that this beautiful memorial is to be an in-
fluential factor in the college life, as well as an attraction to many
coming from other communities. An illustration is found in the
fact that one of the sessions of the last State Qiristian Endeavor
Convention was held at the Arch. The wisdom of the donor in
putting his gift in just this form is thus already receiving dear
justification. It may well be doubted whether the same amount of
money could have been placed so as to count more in affecting the
inner ideal life of the College. Artistically, too, the Arch has
proved very satisfying. An article in the Outlook on recent
college architecture by Professor A. D. F. Hamlin contained a
picture of the Arch, and the New York Evening Post, comment-
ing upon this article, said that the two most encouraging things in
it, architecturally, were this Memorial Arch at Oberlin, and the
new Gateway at Bowdoin. The College is certainly to be con-
gratulated upon the possession of a monument which perpetuates
so fitly and so beautifully the memory of its martyred dead.
Living Endozvment Union.

The Assistant Secretary of the Living Endowment Union
gives me the following summary financial statement with reference
to the work of the Union :

"There are at this date in force 141 subscriptions to the Living En-
dowment Union, the annual payments on which amount in the aggregate
to $913.50.

"There have been received by the College Treasurer cash payments
on account of subscriptions to this fund, amounting in the aggregate to
$1,849.50."

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While the sums do not in themselves seem large, it should be
remembered that the $903 is money available for current expenses,
and represents the interest on a considerable sum. If we can
count on its continuance, it answers, for example, practically to the
salary of an additional instructor. And the movement ought
naturally to grow with each succeeding year, as it has this year,
and still more rapidly, as the pledges to the Reunion Fund and to
the previous Half Million Fund are paid up. Aside from the
money involved, also, it means much to have the College as a
regular object of benevolence continually in the minds of our
alumni; they cannot fail to be more interested where they are
regularly giving.

Other Gifts.

Several other gifts which have come to the College during the
year deserve special mention. To be put first, perhaps, is the gift
of the marble bust of Professor Fenelon B. Rice, intended for the
Conservatory building. The sculptor is Mr. Spicer-Simson. The
bust is completed, and would have been here at Commencement
time, had it not been retained for exhibition in the Salon at Paris.
It is now expected that it will be put in place in December. The
money for the bust came from the small gifts of a very large num-
ber of fellow-teachers, students, and friends, and from the proceeds
of the memorial concert, given by the Conservatory Faculty and
Orchestra on the evening of November 19, 1902. It is only fitting
that the Conservatory should have so permanent a memorial of
the man who was to so large an extent the creator of the musical
department of the College.

The Conservatory has also received, through the initiation of
the Conservatory Class of 1903, two particularly fine photographic
portraits of Dr. and Mrs. Lucien C. Warner.

In connection with the closing exercises of the Theological
Department, May 14, 1903, the Seminary students presented to the
Seminary a photographic portrait of President Barrows. Ap-
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the Senior Qass, on behalf of the students in giving the portrait,
and by Professor A. H. Currier, on behalf of the Faculty, in re-
ceiving it. The portrait hangs in the parlor of the Seminary, and
is a constant reminder of the knightly spirit, whose interest in the
Seminary was so real and constant.

The College Qass of 1903 has made the College its debtor by
adding to the painted portraits in the Library, an admirable por-
trait of Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston. The artist is Mrs. Thurber, the
daughter of General and Mrs. A. B. Nettleton, who have been
so closely connected with the College in previous years. The
portrait was formally presented, and received with appropriate
ceremonies at the College Library on the morning of the last Com-
mencement day.

The reports of the Librarian, of Professor Albert A. Wright,
and of Professor Grover, indicate further gifts to the Library, to
the Museum, and to the Herbarium. The report of the Librarian
contains full mention of the gifts there made. It should be noted,
in connection with the Librarian's report, that probably no year
has seen a larger addition of fresh books than the year just past.
At the same time, very valuable additions have been made from
standard books of an earlier date. The teachers all gratefully
recognize the help so given to their work ; but the needs here are
still very great.

Concerning the gifts to the Museum, Professor Wright says :

"Among the additions may be mentioned some characteristic New
Zealand specimens secured by Dr. and Mrs. Warner upon their recent
journey: A Hatteria lizard, a genus that shows most distinct remnants
of the strange pineal eye; an Apteryx, some fine land snails, Maori imple-
ments, etc. Dr. L. B. Sperry contributed numerous geological specimens
from the West. Mr. Addison Gulidc, of the present senior class, spent
the summer in the Bermudas with a company of scientists, and brought
home some fine Annelids, Corals, and Mollusks. Mr. Lynds Jones, while at
Woods Hole, captured and preserved successfully one of the finest
Portuguese Men-of- War that I have ever seen so far away from salt water ;
it is now one of the gems of our collection."

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Professor Grover says of the additions to the Herbarium:

"The additions to the Herbarium, although not so large as the year
before, have been of much value. They include, by gift from Mrs. A. S.
Root, O. C. *84» a collection of 120 plants from Maine, and from Mr.
Jesse Childs, O. C. '96, about 260 plants from Minnesota and Colorado.
The additions by purchase have been 200 species of Fungi and 225 specimens
of Algae, continuations of important sets, and a valuable set of 250 plants
of Western Vermont, consisting largely of types of little known species.
About 1,000 specimens of Lorain County plants have been collected and
partially studied. The total additions for the year amount to over 2,000
specimens. The department has mounted and added to the organized col-
lections about 900 plants from these and other additions."

From the proceeds of a concert given by the Conservatory
Faculty and from other special gifts of individuals, money was
secured sufficient to furnish hymn-books for the Chapel, much to
the improvement of the musical part of the Chapel service.

The movement for raising $5,000 for a Women's Athletic
Field should also be mentioned here. The Treasurer's report
shows that a considerable amount toward this sum has already
been contributed.

Other Material Gains.

The report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
gives in detail the main improvements made during the year.
The most extended changes have been made in Socfety, French,
and Stewart Halls. The needs of the Academy are now much
better met in Society and French Halls, as the report of the Princi-
pal of the Academy indicates. The addition of a biological
laboratory and of a general study room is particularly appreciated.
The putting in of steam heat in Stewart Hall, and the accompany-
ing changes, have made that building much more attractive. As
the Dean of Women implies in her report, for the money asked
exceptional accommodations are now furnished at Stewart Hall.
The additional practice rooms now provided in Warner Hall will
afford much needed accommodation for the increasing number of
students, and be a regular source of income as well.

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The provision for the first time, in any adequate way, for the
psychological laboratory deserves special mention. The room
for it, in the fourth story of Peters Hall, has been put in really
good condition, and by the special appropriation of the Trustee-,
voted at the last annual meeting, the foundation for a truly ade-
quate equipment has been laid. A modest annual appropriation
should now enable this laboratory to do its full work for the
students, although the laboratory room itself will need extension
before long. This enlargement could be achieved at compara-
tively small expense by extending the present laboratory over
Bradley Auditorium.

The fitting up of a small shop and dynamo room in the base-
ment of Peters Hall has still further improved the equipment of
the department of Physics. A six-horsepower gas engine and
dynamo have been added to the chemical equipment during the
year, providing for satisfactory ventilation.

The installation of a central heating and lighting plant in the
village has made it possible for the College to arrange for the
heating and lighting of a considerable portion of its buildings in a
much safer, more satisfactory, and it is believed not more costly
way. The details of the arrangement are given in the report of
the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. An immediate
gain will be the doing away with a large amount of smoke in the
very center of the college buildings, and the provision for better
ventilation in the main recitation hall. The ability to secure
electrical power will also be a decided practical convenience.

As affecting the interests of both town and College, it is
worthy of note, also, that North and South Main Streets are
receiving permanent pavement. The work is now nearly com-
pleted. The share of the College in this paving amounts to
$2,854.83, to be paid in annual installments of $259.53, for 11
years, beginning with the year 1903-04. The paving of South
Main Street was especially desirable, on account of the very un-
fortunate impression made upon visitors to the town, who must,

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many of them, traverse that street on their way from the railway
station.

The increasing and valuable service rendered by the new
Park Hotel, under Miss Bacon's efficient management, is another
gain in the life of the community deserving mention. In numer-
ous ways it has notably contributed to the work of the College
during the past year, fulfilling so far the thought of the Trustees
in directing its thorough renovation. It needs enlargement to be
able to perform its full service.

There is growing evidence, also, that the electric railway
service is one of the factors in increasing the attendance upon the
G>llege from the immediate vicinity.

The Burning of the College Chapel,

The greatest material disaster of the year has been the burn-
ing of the College Chapel, on the night of January 25, 1903.
Quite a sum of money had recently been expended upon the
Chapel to make it more presentable and more comfortable; and
of course this extra expenditure was a total loss. The entire in-
surance on the building and contents was $20,850. Of this
amount, the College received $20,600, apportioned as follows:
$12,000 for building, $7,950 on contents, and $650 on clock. $4,-
539.17 was paid to the Conservatory on account of the organ,
and some other Conservatory belongings. The amount expended
by the College in the purchase of new office equipment and in the
necessary alterations made in the dwelling house on West Col-
lege Street, to fit it for college offices, has been kept well within
the remainder of the insurance on contents ; so that over $14,000
is still available from the insurance. The College would have
been greatly embarrassed, had it not been for the very generous
offers made immediately after the fire by the officers of the First
and Second Churches, putting their buildings at the disposal of
the College for any such use as could be made of them. In ac-
cepting these offers, the College made use temporarily of the
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offices, until the West College Street building could be put in
condition; and took the audience room of the First Church for
its Chapel services. The arrangement by the First Church with
the College for the use of its building for College Chapel is a
very generous one indeed. And the College is exceedingly for-
tunate in being able to make so good provision in this emergency
for its central religious service. A much larger part of the con-
tents of the offices was saved from the chapel fire than could have
been reasonably expected. Practically all the records of the
Treasurer's office, the most valuable part of the contents of the
Secretary's office, the most important records of the Registrar's
office, and all the papers in the President's office were saved.
The office which suffered most was that of the Principal of the
Academy ; here, the loss was almost total. Both bells, also, were
ruined ; and one of the practical losses most keenly felt since the
fire has been that of the clock and bells; though the Baptist
Church has very kindly allowed the College to make use of its
bell for announcing the various college exercises. The present
provision for the college offices in the West College Street dwell-
ing, is as good as could be expected under the circumstances, but
can never be anything other than wholly inadequate.

In view of the burning of the Chapel and of the conditional
offer of $50,000 by the anonymous Boston donor, a special trustee
meeting of unusual significance was held in Cleveland, Feb-
ruary sth.

OUTSIDE REPRESENTATION AND INFLUENCE.

The Notable Gatherings of the Year.

In the matter of relation to the outside world, there should
be mentioned, probably, first of all, certain notable public meet-
ings held at Oberlin during the year. The first of these, the
annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, held October 14-17, 1902, was mentioned in the
report of last year, and was no doubt of real value to the Col-

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lege, in bringing its work to the attention of so many men of
prominence and influence. The general committee of arrange-
ments and the committee on entertainment had done their work
so well that there can be no doubt that only a pleasant impression
was left upon certainly the great majority of those in attendance
upon that meeting, so far as Oberlin's relation to it was con-
cerned. The stimulus of the meetings to the life of the College
itself was also a great good.

The exercises connected with the Inauguration of the Presi-
dent put the College in especially close relations with the educa-
tional world. The committees in charge of the occasion did their
work with such thoroughness and effectiveness that the entire
program was certainly one of the most successful ever carried
out at Oberlin. The Inauguration of the President was con-
nected with the Wagner May Festival Concerts of the Musical
Union, with the dedication of the Memorial Arch, with the
inauguration of Professor Bosworth as Dean of the Theological
Seminary, and with the commencement exercises of that depart-
ment. A full report of the occasion, with the complete addresses
of inauguration day, has been prepared, and is now passing
through the press. This makes it unnecessary that more should
be said of the details here.

In connection with these meetings, may also be mentioned
the two sessions of the Ohio State Christian Endeavor Conven-
tion, held here on the afternoon of June 27, and devoted to two
special Missionary Addresses at the Memorial Arch, and to an ad-
dress upon President Finney by Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, at the
First Church.

Reference may also be made to four meetings held this
Fall: The Tenth Anniversary of the Anti-Saloon League, held
October 21 and 22, the North-Eastem Ohio Teachers' Associa-
tion, on October 24 ; the State Convention of the Young Women's
Christian Association, November 5-8; and two sessions of the
annual meeting of the Ohio Library Association, October 8.

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The Anti-Saloon League naturally came back to Oberlin to cele-
brate its tenth anniversary, since the League had its beginning
here, and the policy outlined ten years ago has now been extended
to thirty-nine diflFerent States. This tenth anniversary of the
League was also made the occasion for launching a new move-
ment in favor of personal temperance, to be under the auspices
of the Anti-Saloon League, and to be called the Lincoln Legion.
It is only fitting that a college, which has had so marked a history
in reference to previous moral reforms in the nation, should have
special connection with the very important issue raised by the
liquor traffic. The meeting of the North-Eastem Ohio Teachers'
Association had an unusually large attendance, and indicates one
of the ways in which Oberlin might make closer its relation to the
teachers of this part of the State. The fact that the Young
Women's Christian Association came here for its State Con-
vention, also shows the large growth in recent years of the work
of the Association in the College. Oberlin ought naturally to
have one of the largest and most effective College Associations
in the State. In connection with the meeting of the Ohio
Library Association, the regular Thursday Lecture for October
was given by the Librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati,
Dr. N. D. C. Hodges, on "English Libraries."

Representation at Other Meetings.

The College has been represented during the year by the
President, or by one or more members of the Faculty, at the
Convention on Religious and Moral Education, held in Chicago,
at the National Education Association, in Boston, at the North-
Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in Chica-
go, at a special conference called by Northwestern University
to consider the relations of the College to the professional and
technical schools, in Evanston, 111., at the conference on higher
commercial education held at Ann Arbor, at the "Conference of
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inauguration exercises of other colleges, at the meetings of a num-
ber of our own Alumni Associations, and this Fall, at a special
conference on secondary schools at Evanston, 111., and at the
Fifth Annual Conference of the Congregational Seminaries of the
United States and Canada, at Andover, Mass. It is hoped to
make this representative work not only of advantage to the dele-
gate attending, and to the College through his influence there, but
through careful reports of these meetings made before the entire
Faculty, to secure for all the teaching force a wider and closer
acquaintance with the educational questions now prominently
in discussion.

Relation to Secondary Schools.
There seems to be no doubt that the relations of the College
to the schools of Lorain County have been closer and more cordial
than usual this year. The appointment of Mr. Miller to the
Faculty must help further in this same direction. It will be
noted that the Committee having specially in charge the Summer
School, are still confident that much could be done in this direction
through a slight additional expenditure for courses in the Sum-
mer School particularly appealing to teachers. While the present
is not the time to press for any considerable expenditure in con-
nection with our summer work, it should be borne in mind that
there is general agreement that, with a comparatively small out-
lay, the College could probably make the summer session much
more profitable to itself in a general way than is now the case.
The Faculty have this year made this question of the relations
to the secondary schools the special charge of a new standing
committee.

Inter-Seminary Conference,

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Congregational Semi-
naries of the United States and Canada met at Andover October
12, 1903, and took, this year, a decided step in advance; as a com-
mittee was appointed, and reported later, upon permanent or-
ganization, which will go into effect when six of the following

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seminaries shall have reported their approval to the Secretary:
Andover, Bangor, Chicago, Hartford, Montreal, Oberlin, Pacific,
Yale. An Executive Committee of four was chosen to act in
common matters for all the seminaries, if the constitution for
permanent organization should be adopted. Professor Swing
represented Oberlin at this Conference. Two questions under dis-
cussion at the Conference may illustrate the important common
interests of the seminaries: Is the time at hand for a general
union of Congregational theological seminaries in the establish-
ment of one or more Congregational Summer Schools of Theolo-
gy? Would such a movement advance the mutual interests of
settled pastors and of our seminaries? Can a plan of co-opera-
tion be arranged for the thorough visitation of our Congrega-
tional colleges this year, to present the claims of the ministry,
secure the best class of students, and obviate the suggestion of
seminary competition? The Conference favored the idea of
summer school work in theology, and approved of working in line
with the movement already started as the Congregational Bible
College and Summer Assembly at Lakeside, Ohio, and Potta-
wattamie Point, Michigan. It also voted that the presidents and
deans of our seminaries be requested to arrange for a systematic
visitation of our Christian colleges, to be put in operation the
present year. Both these movements have large promise, and
Oberlin has had its full share in bringing both forward.
Work of College for Community.
The College has continued its regular service for the com-
munity in the bringing in of various lectures from outside, but
still more by the lectures given by the members of its own
Faculty. It is also evident that there is an increasing tendency
on the part of the community to make use of several of the regular
courses oflFered by the College. As last year, it is naturally the
case that the courses especially attractive should be in Art, in
History, and in English Literature. Another Art Exhibition is
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The President and Mrs. King have felt that the naturally
close ties between the College and community might be still
further streng^ened by instituting a regular New Yearns Recep-
tion to the entire community, at the President's house. The
attempt was made on last New Year's Day, and the general in-
vitation through the papers was responded to most cordially by
the citizens; a very large number coming to the house through
all the hours planned for the reception. Too much care, cer-
tainly, cannot be taken to keep and strengthen the close relations
between College and community, which form one of the best
parts of our inheritance from the past.

Outside Work and Lectures.
The peculiar nature of Professor G. Frederick Wright's ap-
pointment, which confines his teaching to one semester of the
year, naturally makes his outside work more extensive than that
of any other member of the Faculty, and there may be fittingly
included at this point his complete statement of the work done
by him, aside from the courses in the College and Seminary.

"The outside work which has devolved upon me has been various,
and somewhat difficult of appreciation by those not engaged in it. There
has been a wide call for the preparation of articles for the public press
upon subjects bearing directly or indirectly upon my department of work.
Sixteen such articles, upon the bearing of archselogical explorations and
scientific discovery upon religion, have been published by the Chicago
Record-Herald, and a syndicate of seven papers, extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, which have reached a constituency of more
than a million readers. Nearly as many other articles are in process of
preparation for publication in the immediate future. Various articles, also,
of a similar character, have been called for by the religious press, some
of which have been issued by a syndicate ; thus appearing in several papers
of different denominations widely distributed over the country. I have
also been called upon for numerous lectures before prominent Clubs of
men in Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Orange, N. J., Washington, D. C,
Buffalo, and Cleveland, and for courses of lectures in two Chautauqua
Assemblies.

"A most important line of investigations directly germane to my
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at Lansing, Kansas, where all my experience is brought directly into
requisition. I have already spent several weeks in the field, studying the
situation and bringing to bear upon it all the light which comes from my
previous experience in varied portions of the world. Papers upon the
subject have appeared from me in the Bulletins of the Geological Society
of America, the American Geologist, the Records of the Past, and the
Bibliotheca Sacra. The work is still in hand, and will lead to more
elaborate publications in the near future. Everything indicates the extreme
importance and fruitfulness of the line of investigation in which I am most
specifically engaged.

"I may also mention as an incident of my work, the continued suc-
cessful publication of the Bibliotheca Sacra, the oldest theological quarterly
in America, now in ks seventy-third year. This contains annually eight
hundred pages of material, contributed by a wide circle of best-known
scholars in America and Europe, and reaches at once every center of
learning in the world, where, as we have abundant evidence, it is read by
the leading formers of theological and philosophical thought. The
incidental advantage of having such a quarterly sent forth from Oberlin
can hardly be over-estimated; for, not only does it furnish a natural
channel through which Oberlin professors and thinkers can reach the
scholarly public, but by its publication here the whole scholarly world
pays tribute to our importance as a center of theological and philosophical
thought. Other universities are heavily subsidizing periodicals of this class
for the sake of the representation which they give of their work.

"I may add, in conclusion, that my appointment to give the Stone
Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1904 is laying upon me the
constant burden of preparation, not only for that immediate course, but
for the volume that would naturally follow ; all of which will incidentally
inure to the benefit of the classes that come under me in regular course."

Particularly valuable service in the effective representation
of the College abroad has also been done by Professor Bosworth,
as might be read, perhaps, between the lines of his very brief
reference to it in his report as Dean of the Seminary. He has
been able to speak in this way not only to very many college
students, but also to an unusually large number of ministers and
important laymen in various State Associations. His summer
work, also, at the Y. M. C. A. Conferences on the Pacific Coast,
at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and at Northfield, Massachusetts, at
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special Bible Study Conference at Pottawattamie Point, Michi-
gan, has undoubtedly been of great value to the College. Rev.
Ernest Bourner Allen, of the last graduating class of the Theo-
logical Seminary, and pastor of the Washington Street Congre-
gational Church, of Toledo, Ohio, arranged for an "Oberlin
Day" at Toledo, with special services calling attention to the
work of the College at his Church, and at other Churches, in
which he was assisted by Professor Bosworth and nine students
from the College. Something of the same kind has also been
done this Fall, and there can be little doubt that it will help in
giving the College a better hold than it has had upon the situation
in Toledo.

Professor Bosworth has also identified himself recently, with
a widespread and most influential movement in accepting the
presidency of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League. As such, he pre-
sided at the recent tenth anniversary of the League here in
Oberlin.

In the same connection should be mentioned the important
course of ten lectures by Dr, Leonard on the "History and Litera-
ture of Physical Training," given before the Y. M. C. A. Secre-
tarial Institute and Training School at Chicago, as well as his
paper on "German Normal Schools of Gymnastics," read be-
fore the Biennial Convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Physical Education. Dr, Hanna also presented
a paper at the same*meeting.

Mention should also be made of the similar service rendered
by Mr, Lynds Jones, Instructor in Zoology, of which Professor
Albert A. Wright reports as follows :

"Mr. Jones spent the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory at
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, beginning a special investigation and giving a
seminar upon birds, which attracted special attention. He is engaged for
next summer as one of the staff lecturers of the Station. During the
year he continued the editorship of the Wilson Bulletin, extra editions of
which were sent out by the College to many scientific societies, with the
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would suggest the propriety of having the expense of this edition met by
the library funds, or by special appropriation, instead of being charged
against the appropriation for the department of Zoology.

Special outside addresses have been given during the year
by Professor Johnston, Professor Currier, Professor Swing, Dean
Luce, Professor MacLennan, Professor Wager, and Professor
Bewer. Professor Andrews has extended the knowledge and
reputation of the Conservatory by many organ recitals, both here
and away, including a number g^ven during the latter part of the
summer vacation. He has also been elected Vice-president of the
Ohio Music Teachers' Association. .

The summer work, too, of a number of the Faculty deserves
mention here. Six members of the Faculty taught in connection
with our Summer School: Professors Anderegg, Caskey, Hall,
MacLennan, Martin, and Wager. Professor Cole gave advanced
courses in Latin in connection with the summer school at Cor-
nell University. Mr. Cairns was engaged in the topographical
work of the United States Geological Survey. Professor Kimball
had some special pupils in singing, and directed a choral society
at Seattle, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Adams had charge
of the music at the Bay View Summer Assembly, Bay View,
Michigan. Professors Carter and Wattles, and Messrs. Homer
and Harroun did some teaching here in Oberlin, and Mr. Har-
roun studied further with Mr. Witherspoon in Cleveland.

The high quality of the chorus work doilfe by our choirs has
been again indicated by invitations to the Second Church Choir
for special concerts given at the Euclid Avenue Congregational
Church, of Cleveland, and at the First Congregational Church,
of Elyria, Ohio.

In this connection may also be noticed the unusually fine work
done during the last season by the College Glee Qub, under the
efficient training of Mr. Harroun, of the Conservatory Faculty.
The Glee Club has certainly been a most favorable representative
of the College, and the heavy work done in connection with it

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both by Mr. Harroun and by Professor Peck, as manager, de-
serves warm appreciation.

REPRESENTATION IN THE PRESS.

The arrangement with Rev. James H. Ross, by which items
of interest from Oberlin College have been furnished to the press
of diflFerent parts of the country, has been continued during the
year. Mr. Ross's work in connection with the meeting of the
American Board, with the Inauguration, and in reports of va-
rious other lectures, addresses, gifts, and events, has undoubtedly
been of value to the College, in keeping it before the public, and
in g^iving accurate and intelligent information concerning its
work. Mr. Ross has been very helpful, as well, in many sugges-
tions given with reference to this whole work of outside repre-
sentation.

The Bibliotheca Sacra, the college Review, and the two
town papers have also, in different ways, forwarded the inter-
ests of the College. The establishment of a special Alumni De-
partment in the college Revieiv is sure to make that paper count
much more largely among the alumni than it has hitherto. Mr.
Earl F. Adams and Mrs. Herbert Harroun did efficient work as
editors of this department last year, and this year it is to be in
charge of Mr. Louis E. Lord and Mrs. Charles B. Martin. The
Secretary of the College has tried to keep in touch, as far as pos-
sible, with the newspaper correspondents sending out information
from Oberlin, to avoid mis-statements, and to insure that really
valuable information was promptly and correctly furnished.

Beside the newspaper and periodical work already mentioned,
as done by Professor G. Frederick Wright, articles by a number
of other members of the Faculty should be noticed. Professor
Bewer has written during the year three notable articles on the
Book of Ruth, the conclusions of which have been accepted by
some of the foremost scholars both of this country and of Europe.
The articles were published under the title of Die Leviratehe im
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Theologische Studien und Kritiken, Heft I und II, 1903, and of
The Ge'ullah in the Book of Ruth, in the American Journal of
Semitic Languages, April, 1903. Professor Bewer also published
several text critical notes in the American Journal of Semitic
Languages, for January, 1903, which have received serious atten-
tion, especially in Germany; and he has prepared a number of
reviews for theological journals.

Other articles, also, have been prepared by Professor Albert
A. Wright, Professor Bosworth, Professor Kimball, Professor
Leonard, Professor Swing, Professor Dickinson, Professor Mac-
Lennan, and Professor Bogart.

Besides important philosophical articles prepared for periodi-
cals. Professor MacLennan has had an important share in a
recent volume. Studies in Logical Theory, issued by the Univer-
sity of Chicago, under the editorship of Professor Dewey. Dr.
MacLennan's contribution to this volume is entitled, Typical
Stages in the Development of Judgment, In connection with Mr.
Lynds Jones's work as editor of the Wilson Bulletin, should also
be mentioned his volume, Birds of Ohio, published by the Ohio
Academy of Sciences.

One other item in this connection is of such special interest,
that I have asked Dr. Bewer to tell the brief story of it :

"Towards the end of October of last year Professor Karl Buddc of the
University of Marburg, Germany, wrote to me for detailed information
about Oberlin College which Dr. Hackenschmidt, of Strassburg, Germany,
wanted for his article on Oberlin in the new edition of the famous Herzog's
Realencyclopaedie fiir Protestantische Theologie und Kirche. Dr. Hackcn-
schmidt had heard "that a newly founded university in the U. S. A. called
itself after Oberlin and made much of Oberlin," and naturally wanted to
know "what kind of a school that was and how it had come upon Oberlin."
President King, to whom I submitted the matter, decided at once to send
not merely catalogues and descriptive pamphlets but also the two volumes
on Oberlin's history to Professor Budde because he recognized the real
importance of a special mention of Oberlin in a reference work of such
high standing. Dr. Hacken«chmidt has written the article for the Ency-
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one of the German Journals ; so much interested had he become in Oberlin
College.

One of the results of the special reference to Oberlin College in the
Realencyclopaedie will be that the German professors will become more in-
terested in students from Oberlin, now that they may be referred to such a
standard work for information on Oberlin College, for they are rather shy
of American colleges whose name and standing they do not know.. I be-
lieve that one Oberlin graduate whom I had recommended to Professor
Budde and who happened to be in Marburg when the above mentioned
correspondence took place must already have been benefited by it; for
Professor Budde did not merely hand the books over to Dr. Hacken-
schmidt but read a great part of them so that he became thoroughly famil-
iar with the Oberlin principles and enthusiastic over "the altogether
singular Httle republic."

The Work of the President,

It is probably due to the Trustees that they should know in
some detail the work of the President for the year.

It has seemed very desirable that the President should keep
some vital connection with the teaching side of the work of the
Qjllege ; and he is still attempting to carry, with the help of his
assistant, Dr. Florence M. Fitch, the five-hour course in the
Microcosmus, as a senior elective in College, and the five-hour
course in Theology, a required course for seniors in the theologi-
cal department, and with Professor Bosworth, the two-hour re-
quired course for college seniors. The very efficient help of Dr.
Fitch seems to give promise that this work can really be carried
successfully in connection with the other duties of the President's
office. The President continues, besides, his regular Sunday Bible
class, and has charge of the Senior Qass prayer-meetings, and
must, of course, carry the responsibility of the chairmanship of
the general and college councils and faculties, and of the pruden-
tial committee.

The appointments of Professor Miller to give at least half
his time as Dean of College Men, and of Professor Bosworth to
take full primary responsibility as Dean, for the Theological
Seminary, have been a distinct help to the President. The direct

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work of the office has been pretty carefully organized in the
course of the year, and the office equipment much improved.
The large amount of correspondence handled by the Secre-
tary of the College, as well as the special help of the Presi-
dent's secretary and stenographer, has greatly assisted in bring-
ing the work of the office within manageable proportions. Regu-
lar office-hours are kept by both the President and his secretary.
In spite of the large assistance given by the office of the College
Secretary, a large amount of general correspondence must still be
handled from this office. The office-hours of the President are
for general conference of all kinds, particularly with the Faculty,
and with upper-class students. But the President's office must
naturally be a general clearing-house for all college matters, and
for all matters as to the relation of town and College. The general
executive and financial work of the President, of course, can
never be finished; it is necessarily carried as a continuous re-
sponsibility. A considerable part of the work of the President
must naturally lie in keeping in close touch with the work at all
points, and making certain, so far as possible, that the largest re-
sults are being obtained from the resources available. He wishes
to recognize most heartily the many valuable suggestions that have
come from the members of the Faculty, as to possible improve-
ment at different points in the entire work of the College. It is
one of the very great gains of our unusually democratic policy,
that the suggestions of a large number of interested men are
available for our work.

In connection with the regular work of the College, must also
be given a considerable number of addresses during the year ; in-
cluding this year the inaugural address, the address at the inaugu-
ration of Professor Bosworth, and to the theological graduates,
the baccalaureate sermon, of course, various chapel addresses, and
occasional lectures.

The purely representative work of the President has in-
volved attendance at various presidential inaugurations, at educa-

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tional meetings, and at several alumni gatherings — ^those of the
Western Massachusetts Alumni, at Springfield; the North- West-
em Oberlin Association, at Minneapolis ; the Oberlin College As-
sociation of Illinois, at Chicago; the Western Pennsylvania
Alumni Association, at Pittsburg; the New England Union of
Oberlin Alumni, at Boston; and the New York Association of
Alumni of Oberlin College, at New York. It may be noted that
a new alumni association for Central New York has been formed
during the year.

Commencement addresses were given at the High School at
Kendallville, Indiana; at the Hathaway-Brown School, Qeve-
land; at the Rayen School, Youngstown, Ohio; at the Oberlin
High School; at the Oberlin Kindergarten Training School; at
the Normal Training School, Qeveland; at the Canton High
School ; and at the Salem High School.

Special lectures and addresses of an educational or religious
character were given before the Chicago Congregational Club,
and the Qeveland Congregational Qub; before branches of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae at Springfield, Massachusetts,
at Cleveland, and at Chicago; at Williams College, Mt. Holyoke
College, the Y. M. C. A. Training School at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, Carleton College, Hillsdale College, and Union Semi-
nary, New York; before Teachers' Associations at Lorain and
Oberlin ; on Religious Education, at the Convention on Religious
and Moral Education, at Chicago, at the Illinois State Congrega-
tional Association, at Evanston, and the Ohio State Congrega-
tional Association, at Akron, and at the Illinois State Sunday-
School Convention, at Taylorville.

Other addresses have been given at Galesburg, Illinois, at
Grinnell, Iowa, at Berlin Heights, Ohio, at Marblehead, Ohio, at
Hinsdale, Illinois, and at Elyria, Ohio.

The President's summer work included three lectures given
in connection with the Summer School of Theology of Western
Reserve University ; five addresses at the Ohio Christian Endeavor

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Convention, at Elyria and Oberlin ; a lecture before the Summer
School at Oberlin; five addresses at the Chautauqua Assembly,
at Chautauqua, N. Y. ; two special lectures on Christian Training
and the Revival as Methods of Converting Men, at the Y. M. C.
A. Conference at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and five other ad-
dresses ; two weeks of Bible teaching at the Congregational Sum-
mer Assembly at Pottawattamie Point, Michigan ; and the prepa-
ration of a considerable study on Jonathan Edwards as Philoso-
pher and Theologian, a part of which was given as an address, by
invitation of Hartford Theological Seminary, at the 200th Anni-
versary of the Birth of Jonathan Edwards, celebrated at Hart-
ford, Connecticut, October 5.

The main publications for the year by the President include
the full discussion, of which the inaugural was a part, in the
Bibliotheca Sacra; a series of articles on The New Evangelism,
in The Congregationalist ; a considerable pamphlet including the
two lectures on Christian Training and the Revival, issued by the
Y. M. C. A. Secretarial Institute, Chicago; the address on The
Modern Conception of Religious Education, as conditioned by
the Principles of Modern Psychology and Pedagogy, published
in the Proceedings of the First Convention of the Religious Edu-
cation Association; the baccalaureate sermon, on Basic Qualities;
an article on the life of Jonathan Edwards, in the Christian En-
deavor World; and the full study on Jonathan Edwards, which is
soon to appear in the Hartford Seminary Record.

It would doubtless not be wise to undertake as much outside
work as has been here outlined, regularly ; though even this year
only a small fraction of the opportunities for such service have
been accepted. A certain amount of such outside work seems al-
most unavoidable, though the President has no doubt that his first
and largest responsibility is for the immediate work of the College
at home.

ADVERTISING.

The regular advertising of all departments in common has

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been continued, as well as the regular separate advertising of the
Seminary, the Conservatory, and the Academy. The Normal
Course in Physical Training, as will be seen from Dr. Hanna's
report, has now as many students as it can look after ; so that it
has not seemed necessary to continue the special advertising there.
It will be seen from the Secretary's report, that two editions of
the Catalogue have been issued, according to the suggestion made
last year, and that a new large edition of the illustrated pamphlet
has been prepared. The Oberlin Calendar was again eflFectively
used last year ; but it is proposed, with the present year, to change
for a time to a somewhat different but very attractive form. A
telling two-page article upon the College was prepared by a
member of the staff of the Chicago Advance, for that paper. Far
the most effective advertising of a direct kind, however, that the
College does, is no doubt accomplished through the extended and
carefully followed up correspondence of the office of the college
Secretary.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES.

The term of office of one member of each of the Advisory
Committees expires with the present year. The committees have
been in operation so short a time that, in most cases, certainly, it
would seem better that these members should be re-elected at
this meeting of the Trustees.

The valuable reports made last year by the Advisory Com-
mittees on the Library, on Ancient Languages, on the Academy,
and on Instruction in Drawing and Painting, in accordance with
the wise vote of the Trustees, were manifolded and copies sent
to all members of the Board of Trustees and to the members of
the General Council. These reports have already produced real
results, and indicate as well wise lines of policy to be later fol-
lowed. This year the reports will be put in print, as more con-
venient for the Trustees, though they will not be sent out as a
general publication to the world. The reports should secure care-
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Council, of the most serious needs of the College. The very im-
portant report of the special committee on constitution has also
been put in print, and will be before the Trustees once more for
their consideration, with such suggestions as the Council may
have to make concerning it.

RELATION TO PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

This problem is so vital a one for the independent college,
that I have asked the diflferent members of the committee on this
subject to make a careful report of the different aspects of the
question. Professor Hall writes upon the relation to law schools ;
Professor Bogart upon the relation to higher commercial train-
ing ; Professor Leonard upon the relation to the medical schools ;
and Professor St. John upon the relation to technical schools.

Relation to Law Schools.

"The situation in legal study seems to be that the leading Law
Schools of the country have made arrangements by which the combined
Arts and Law courses may be taken in six years; and at the end of that
period the student will possess both the A. B. degree and the diploma
from the Law School The Harvard Law School is a marked exception
to this tendency, as it requires an A. B. degree as a condition of admission
to its classes, and hence Harvard students must at present spend seven
years in order to complete both courses. In the six-year combined course,
we have found no instance in which a year of study in the Arts has been
counted as a year in the Law School, even if that year should be devoted
to lines of study especially recommended ior Law students; as, for ex-
ample, in Economics, History, Political Science, or Constitutional Law.
In other words the graduate from this combined course has had three
years of Law study and only three years of study in the Arts. He has
not had, in any case, four years of study in the Arts and two years in Law,
with one of his years in the Arts course so carefully selected that it has
been accepted as an equivalent for a year of Law study.

Such a combined course, it is plain, can only be offered in a University
which includes a Law Department as well as an Arts Department ; and the
College, with the Arts course only, can not compete with the University
in such a shortening of the period of professional study in the Law.

A year ago your Committee had not regarded this matter as an urgent
problem; but it is manifest that the attraction of the six-year Law course

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has already been more widely and deeply felt among our students than we
had realized. At the close of the past year Oberlin lost two of the
young men in its incoming Senior class, because they could enter Univer-
sities where they could complete their Law courses in three years and at
the same time receive their A. B. degrees ; and we must anticipate that this
tendency will increase. In these circumstances it seems to your Committee
that the only way in which Oberlin can meet this new form of competition
for our young men who are looking forward to the profession of the Law
is by the appointment of a Professor of Law, who shall give his time to
the teaching of such subjects as are covered by the first year of study in our
best Law schools. There is no reason to doubt that students who have
pursued such studies in Oberlin College will be admitted to the second year
in any of the Law schools of the country except Harvard. Of course, it
would not be necessary for any student to take all the legal studies in his
Senior year, and several of them might wisely be taken in the Junior year,
and some even in the Sophomore year. Such an appointment at Oberlin
would be rather a reversion to an earlier system than a novel experiment;
as a Professor of Law was a member of the Oberlin Faculty for several
years in the early days of Oberlin.

• A temporary alternative was offered to your Committee by the propo-
sal of one reputable Law School that three courses now given in Oberlin
College would be accepted as one fourth of a year's study in the Law
school; that one of their lecturers would come to Oberlin and conduct
a two-hour course through the year, for which a second fourth of a year
would be credited; and that the remaining half of the year's work might
be made up by taking extra hours of work through the other two years
of the Law course; and in this way an Oberlin student might practically
follow a combined six-year course, not unlike that offered in the Universi-
ties. The generous offer was made that the proposed Law teacher might
be engaged at a merely nominal sum; viz., the paying of his traveling
expenses. This offer, the Committee on Professional Study did not think
it wise to accept. The credit proposed for our College work seemed too
trifling to deserve much attention ; the work done by the proposed loan of a
lecturer seemed of comparatively little value; while such an offer would have
been very welcome in case of a sudden emergency caused by death or in-
capacity, it did not seem dignified or self-respecting for Oberlin to make use
of such an offer as a permanent policy, since it was so easily open to mis-
construction and misrepresentation."

Relation to Higher Commercial Education.
"The past few years have witnessed the establishment of courses in
higher coamierdal education in a dozen of our larger universities, the

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avowed purpose of which is to give their graduates a more special training
for business careers than they could obtain from the ordinary college
course. The increasing complexity of modern business makes necessary
a specialized education for those who are to make a success of it. The fact
that colleges have not in the past given such training has made some ques-
tion whether the successful business man did not secure his education better
by practical experience than by college training. While it is true that
actual contact with business affairs is a necessary condition for a success-
ful business career, yet the educated business man can secure best in the
college a knowledge of the general principles and broader inter-relations
of our industrial life. Such training, it is believed, will fit him better
for assuming a responsible position in the business world, while it will at
the same time in no wise detract from the liberal character of his educa-
tion. A comparatively slight modification of the present course of study at
Oberlin would enable us to offer the students the most important courses
presented in the programs of some of the institutions providing for higher
commercial education. In suggesting this there is no thought of attempt-
ing, to give a complete three or four years' technical course in business
training. The purpose is rather to enlarge and remodel somewhat the
Department of Economics and Sociology in such a way as to give the
student the essentials of a broad commercial education and prepare him for
postgraduate work in a technical school of commerce, or for better under-
standing the problems of our complex industrial life without further study.
It is not necessary to label this group of studies a "Business Course ;" it is
sufficient if the demand for such work be met and the opportunity be given
to our students in Oberlin of securing a more liberal and comprehensive
knowledge of the economic world. It would put us in line with some of
the most progressive institutions in the middle west, and permit the en-
largement of our curriculum in the direction in which it most needs it
This could be secured by the appointment of one additional instructor in
the College.

It was the good fortune of your professor of economics, as delegate
from Oberlin College, to attend a conference of college, business, and pro-
fessional men at Ann Arbor last spring for the purpose of considering the
advisability of incorporating higher commercial education in our college
curricula. The verdict was general and was particularly emphasized by
the business men present that the liberal character of a college education
must in no way be sacrificed; that the best business training possible was
the training of the whole man. But it was also thought that the study
of modern industrial society might be made as truly liberal as other
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the working of economic and social forces than is possible under a cur-
riculum organized without this group of studies.

The courses in higher commercial education, given in common by the
Universities of Chicago, Dartmouth, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New
York, Ohio State, and Wisconsin, are as follows (the numbers show how
many of the eight institutions give these courses) : Economic History
of England (5) ; Economic History of the United States (3) ; Economic
Geography (5) ; Political Economy (7) ; History of Commerce (5) ;
Money and Banking (6) ; Business Organization (5) ; Materials of Com-
merce (3) ; Accounting (4) ; Commercial Law (4) ; Public Finance (6) ;
Transportation (5) ; Labor (3) ; Economic Theory (2) ; Corporation
Finance (3) ; Domestic and Foreign Trade (2) ; Insurance (2). Of these
the last three are postgraduate studies, and so may be dismissed. Of
the others the courses in italics are now given in Oberlin College. If an
additional instructor could be appointed who could relieve your present
professor of the sociology and of five hours a year in the introductory
economics, the following schedule of courses could be arranged:

Freshman.

Sophomore.

Junior.

Senior.

I St Scm.

Econ. Hist, of
Eng., a hrs.

Polit. Econ., 5
hrs.

3hs.

Trans-
portati'n
alter-
nating
with
Fin. His.
of U. S
Hist, of Com.,
2 hrs.

Econ.
Theory
alter-
nating
with
Labor. J
Econ. Sem., ahs

3hs.

and Sem.

Econ. Hist, of
U. S., 2 hrs.

Money and

Banking, 3 hrs.

Econ. Geog.,

2 hrs.

Public

Finance, 3 hrs.
Hist, of Com. ,
2 hrs.

Bus. Org., 3 hrs.
Econ. Sem., 2 hs.

Total

4 hrs.

10 hrs.

This makes provision for practically all the courses mentioned above
except those in Accounting and Commercial Law. The Economic Sem-
inar, which is open to eight of the most advanced students, could be used,
if desirable, for more advanced work along any of these lines. It will be
noticed that this plan provides for taking only eight to ten hours of the
time of the assistant ; the rest of his time could be given to the Department
of History, where the most pressing needs seem to be for the establish-
ment of a course in Modern European History and for the continuance of
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the work in Political Science. Though I hesitate to urge it at this time,
there is even now need of still another instructor, who could prive some
general courses for which credit might be obtained in law schools by
intending law students, but for which there is even greater need as a part
of a liberal college course. Such would be courses in Constitutional Law,
International Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Politics, Theory of the
State, Municipal Government, Political Institutions, etc. On the other
hand, technical law courses such as contracts, sales, agency, torts, etc,
might well be left for the professional law school. The more pressing
need at present, however, seems to be along the lines followed by so
many of our neighboring institutions in developing higher commercial
education."

Relation to Medical Schools.

"In your letter of the 15th you ask for a somewhat careful statement
concerning the situation as to the relation of the College to medical
schools; the difficulties in the way of the adjustment, and exactly what
we need to do to make such adjustment, and whether any further action
or expense in this direction would be of value. A study of the require-
ments for Admission, Advanced Standing and Graduation, and of the
work done during the First Year, at certain representative medical schools,
will make clear the present condition of affairs. The institutions I have
selected — ^and they are the ones most frequently attended by our graduates —
are the following: Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Johns
Hopkins University, Uniyersity of Michigan, University of Chicago, and
Western Reserve University. The statements are taken in each case from
the last catalogue issued by the Medical Department of the university in
question.

I. Harvard University,

Candidates for admission must present a degree in Arts, Literature,
Philosophy, or Science, from a recognized college or scientific school, with
the exception of such persons, of suitable age and attainments, as may be
admitted by a special vote of the Administrative Board in each case. All
candidates must have had a course in Theoretical and Descriptive (In-
organic) Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis (in preparation for course*
in Chemistry in the Medical College).

Applicants for admission to the Medical School who have studied
for three years in recognized colleges, or technical or scientific schools,
in which courses in Human Anatomy, Physiology, Histology and Physio-
logical (Chemistry are a part of the instruction, may be admitted to
advanced standing, provided they pass an examination in these sub-
jects, and possess the other requirements for admission.

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The course duriiwr the First Year inchides Anatomy (d:u hours, with
dissection), Histology and Embryology (252 hours), Physiology (348
hours), Physiological and Pathological Chemistry (288 hours;.

Candidates for graduation must have studied in a recoenized Medical
School at least four full years, of which one year must be spent at this
school.

2. Columbia (College of Physicians and Surgeons),

Candidates for admission must present a medical student's certificate,
granted by the Regents and based upon the completion of at least one
fuU year's course of study in a college or scientific school registered as
maintaining a satisfactory standard. Examinations on an equivalent
amount of courses may be taken.

Students who have pursued elsewhere courses in Physics or General
Chemistry substantially equivalent to those given at this College, may be
excused from the work in these subjects, and admitted to more advanced
instruction as a substitute, on presentation of satisfactory certificates or
after examination. Advanced standing in other subjects than Physios and
Chemistry is granted only when these have been pursued in a recognized
medical school.

The work of the First Year includes Physics (lectures and laboratory
through one semester), General Chemistry (lectures, conference and labora-
tory through one semester), Anatomy (demonstrations and 216 hours of
dissection, throughout the year). Normal Histology, and Physiology (lec-
tures and demonstrations, throughout the year). The work in Anatomy
and Physiology is continued in the second year.

In order to practice in New York State the candidate for registration
must have studied four full years in a medical school maintaining a
satisfactory standard. Graduates from Columbia must conform to this
standard.

3. University of Pennsylvania,

Candidates for admission must be able to meet the entrance require-
ments at any recognized college.

Any graduate in Arts or Science of a college recognized by this
University who has completed any of the studies of the first year of the
Medical Course, and who has passed satisfactorily the examination given
by the professor in the respective branch in this medical school, may be
excused from that portion of the study given in the first year of the
course, provided that he utilize the time scheduled for that study in ad-
vanced work in Chemistry, Anatomy, or Bacteriology, according to his
preference; or in anticipating work of the second year in so far as the
official roster will permit.

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The work of the First Year includes Anatomy (lectures and dissec-
tion), Histology and Embryology (laboratory), Bacteriology (lectures and
laboratory). General Chemistry and Medical Chemistry (lectures and lab-
oratory), lectures on Medical Terminology, Ethics, etc

The candidates for graduation must have passed satisfactory examina-
tions in all of the required branches of the (four years') curriculum, must
have attended the practical instruction in all departments, and his last
year of instruction must have been at this school.

4. Johns Hopkins University.

Candidates for admission must be graduates of approved colleges
or scientific schools, and must furnish evidence that they have acquaintance
with Latin and a reading knowledge of French and German, and sucli
knowledge of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology as is imparted by the
regular minor courses (each consisting of four class-room exercises and
two afternoons of Laboratory work throughout the year) given in these
subjects in this University. Others who show by examination that they
possess the required general education and special training involved in
the above conditions may also be admitted.

Admission to advanced standimr is only by examination.

The work of the First Year includes Anatomy, Histology and Em-
bryology, Physiology, and Physiological (Chemistry.

The candidate for graduation must in every instance have fulfilled all
the requirements for admission to this Medical School and must have
completed, as a regularly matriculated or registered medical student, a
four years* course of medical study, equivalent in its standards to that
given here, of which the final year must be spent in this Medical School.

5. University of Michigan.

To meet the requirements for admission without condition, it is ex-
pected that the applicant will have had to take at least two years of col-
legiate instruction in addition to a high school course.

In order to be admitted to advanced standing a student must have
completed not only the didactic courses, but the laboratory courses also,
already taken by the class to which he seeks admission. When, in the
judgment of the professor in charge, such a course is equivalent to that
given in this Department, he may give the student credit for the work
done, and thus avoid repetition.

The work of the First Year includes Anatomy, Embryology and His-
tology, General Chemistry, and Physics.

Under no circumstances will a student be graduated without having
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been in this school. Graduates of literary and scientific schools or colleges
are not exempted from the necessity of complying with this requirement.

Students in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts who
intend also to study medicine may be able to shorten their total period of
study and residence at the University by from one year to one and a half
or two years, if they comply with the conditions in which registration in
both departments at the same time is permitted, and also pursue, as literary
students, courses that cover the subjects required in the first two years of
the medkal curriculum.

6. University of Chicago,

The requirements for admission consist of a four-year high school
course plus one and a third years of college work, which must have in-
cluded General Chemistry and Biology (after June i8, 1905, two years
of college work, which must have included General Chemistry, Elementary
Biology, Organic Chemistry, College Physics, and reading knowledge of
German and French).

Graduates of recognized colleges of Arts or Science which require
a regular attendance of four years as essential to graduation, may be
given credit for each major (60 hours of lecture or recitation, or 120 liours
in the laboratory) of work (or a full equivalent therefor) corresponding to
any of the work in medical courses. In accordance with state law such
students are allowed to complete their medical course and receive the
M. D. degree 33 months after matriculation. This involves a time credit
of one year, but does not excuse the student from any of the work of the
medical course.

The work of the First Year includes Chemistry (one major, in addition
to General Chemistry), Anatomy (with dissection). Embryology and His-
tology, Physiology, Physiological (Chemistry, Pharmacology, Bacteriology,
and Pathology.

The first two years* work in Medicine may be taken as the third and
fourth years of the Bachelor of Science Course (and a very considerable
part of the first two years* work in Medicine during the third and fourth
years of the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Philosophy Courses) upon
the fulfilment of certain requirements for the degree.

7. Western Reserve University,

Candidates for admission must have completed the junior year in a
recognized college.

Graduates in Arts or Sciences of recognized colleges who have during
their academic course devoted to the subjects the number of hours men-
tioned below, or their equivalents, and have passed satisfactory examina-

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tions thereon, may be admitted to the second year of the course. But the
amount of practical work in such courses must not he less than that re-
quired in corresponding subjects during the first year in this College.
The subjects are — General Biology 90 hours, Comparative Anatomy 75
hours, Embryology 75 hours, Histology 200 hours, Human Anatomy 120
hours, Physics 60 hours, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry 300 hours.

Students in the senior class of Adelbert College are permitted to take
elective courses in the first year of the Medical College. Such electives,
to the extent of nine hours a week, are counted toward the academic degree,
so that in this way students may save one year in the combined Iherary
and medical courses.

The v/ork of the First Year includes Anatomy with dissection. Chem-
istry, Histology, Comparative Anatomy, Embryology, and Bacteriology.

In accordance with the laws of certain states, not including Ohio,
all persons desiring to practice medicine in these states are required to have
attended, before taking the state examination, four full years at a regular
medical college, whether they are graduates of a literary college or not.

I may add here the vote passed last spring at a meeting of the Associ-
ation of American Medical Colleges. '*0n and after July i, 1905, each of
the four years of the medical course shall be separate and distinct from the
arts and scientific departments of the university or college, and no student
shall be permitted to be a matriculate in another department of a uni-
versity or college."

In view of these facts, the difficulties of adjustment and the possible
alternatives which confront the independent college are, it seems to me,
substantially as set forth in a letter received from Professor W. H. Howell,
Dean of the Medical Department of Johns Hopkins University. He says,
in part: "I regret to say that it is not possible for one of your students
to shorten his medical course here by one year in consequence of special
scientific courses before entering. The main difficulty is that some of the
state laws, e. g. those of New York, require evidence of four years' medical
study with registration for four years as a medical student. ♦ * * A
second difficulty lies in the fact that outside a well-organized medical school
really thorough courses in Human Anatomy, Physiology (including labora-
tory work). Physiological Chemistry, and Neurology cannot be obtained at
present * * ♦ What we look for in our college courses, in addition
to a liberal training, is a good foundation in Physics, Chemistry, and
Biology. If these are given I do not see how the other sciences mentioned
above and which constitute mainly our first year's work can be crowded
into the four years of college. As you well know, many colleges that have
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year in the Medical Faculty counts as the last year of the College course
leading to the bachelor's degree. I presume that Oberlin might make
similar arrangements with some of the good medical schools, allowing the
student to enter the medical school at the end of his third year and
conferring the degree at the end of his first medical year. If I may be per-
mitted to say so, a better plan still would be the restriction of the college
course to three years, as is practically dont in the undergraduate depart^
ment of this University * *"

The present time is plainly one of transition and adjustment, in the
medical schools themselves and in their relation to the college. Under
such circumstances, and in view of the evident trend toward separation
of the professional course altogether from the undergraduate course, I
believe that Oberlin College would not be justified in taking any action,
at present, which would involve modification of existing courses of instruc-
tion and require the expenditure of considerable sums for that purpose."

Relation to Technical Schools.

"The coordination of college and technical school work is a question
in whose solution Oberlin College is vitally interested. In the case of a
college intimately connected with a technical department as in the large
universities, the solution of the question is found by allowing the young
men to go directly into the engineering department or by offering to them
a combined course upon whose completion they obtain both the arts and
the engineering degrees. In such a combined course, the third and fourth
years contain studies that might well find a place in a college of liberal
training as well as in a school of technology. It is quite generally admitted
that four years of purely liberal training in college is more than the average
man can afford to devote to preparation for technological study.

Independent colleges such as Oberlin are in grave danger of losing
their hold upon young men who in increasing numbers are preparing them-
selves for the technical callings. The best present solution of the problem
seems to be to offer a range of electives in college, in lines of work that
can be accepted for advanced standing in technical schools, sufficiently
wide to enable the graduate of the college to complete his technical work in
two years. In compsLving the courses offered in Oberlin College with those
of the technical schools, it is found that with the exception of some shop-
work the work of the first two years of the technical schools can be
so nearly duplicated that the student who has made suitable selections
during his college course would be able to complete his technical work in
two years, thus making a course of six years for the two degrees.

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ing schools is now given in English, French, German, Spanish, History,
Economics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Free4iand Draw-
ing, Surveying, Mechanical Drawing, and Descriptive Geometry.

The omission of shop-work is a serious one for the student entering
the technical school with advanced standing, for it delays until too late
an age his work with eye and hand and "he will undergo the serious
embarrassment of entire dislocation between the grade of work he can do
with his brain and that which he can do with his eyes and hands." Since
it is work that finds its proper place in the earlier years of the technical
course its omission causes a serious loss to the student entering the
junior year of the technical school, who must necessarily sacrifice some
of the richer and fuller results he has a right to expect from the last two
years of his course, in order to make up his deficiencies in this primary
and fundamental shopwork. A college can not afford to advise students
to remain four years with the expectation of completing a technical course
in two years more, if thereby their technical courses must suffer seriously.
The only ground upon which a six years' course can be urged in the case
of the engineer is that such a course is of advantage to him as an engineer.
This implies that he has suffered no serious loss in his training for the
strictly technical side of his profession, but has added the advantages of
four years of residence and study in academic surroundings and is in the
broad sense a liberally educated man.

The men who are directing engineering education are clearly convinced
of the advantage of a liberal training. The Dean of a large Eastern
school of- engineering says in this connection : "Somewhere along this road,
the professional must usually break out and take up his engineering
studies. Few and fortunate are they who are permitted to receive that
higher and more truly liberal education which is furnished by a good
college — when the transfer takes place general education, formal educa-
tion, ceases and professional education begins." After this formal transfer
he deals only with material things and with the dead and inanimate world;
as the late Dean of a large Western engineering school states it — ^"His face
is always turned nature-ward and not man-ward," and with convincing
logic he argues for fairly liberal training "in those studies which are
grouped under the very inclusive but indefinite name of the humanities."
He adds further — ^"We are voluntarily consenting to graduate and to put
upon the world a class of highly educated and splendidly trained men
who know nothing of the history or the thought of the world behind them
or the great social problems that are moving the hearts and minds of
those about them. These men stand mute and helpless, therefore, in this
struggling, seething world of affairs, where they arc so much needed

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to help out, with their clear heads and balaxKed judgments, the few work-
ers who are now able to see straight and think dear."

The ability on the part of a strong college to offer four years of such
a combined course by which the future engineer gains the advantage of
a college education without danger of loss in his technical training would
add greatly to its standing and prestige, particularly in the minds of young
men. It would also open the way for the college to put into the ranks
of the leaders in the material and social evolution of the present cen-
tury men nurtured in its own high ideals.

The independent college holds a position of advantage in comparison
with the college of letters and arts in a great university, in that it would
be much easier for it to hold young men for a combined course of six
years as above suggested, than for the college in the shadow of a great
technical department. In the latter situation the student too early feels the
attraction toward immediate productiveness from his training, and is
drawn at once into the engineering department.

The course suggested would be mutually advantageous to the college
and the graduates, and would appeal to many who would prefer to take
at least a part of their professional training in academic surroundings.

It has long been the desire of the Department of Physics to increase
the opportunities offered by Oberlin College in this direction, but the
lack of suitable rooms and equipment has made it unwise to bring the
matter into great prominence; but owing to the vacating of the basement
of Peters Hall by the installation of the new heating system, a large
amount of space is freed for this use which was formerly occupied
by fuel. These rooms could be made available with but small expense.
The question of power is solved by the day electric service to be given by
the new heating and lighting company. There remains only the equipment
to be provided. For a few thousand dollars a suitable shop installation
could be made which would put Oberlin College abreast with the best
thought along these lines and in the very front rank among independent
colleges and render possible the entering into closer relation with some
of the leading engineering schools so that the graduates of Oberlin
College would be assured of a definite advanced standing upon completion
of the course at Oberlin. This would be a practical solution of the
problem which the situation offers, until the time comes when Oberlin
College can establish its own department of Technology. The College
would be in a position to announce to prospective students through the
catalogue and other publications and circulars the opportunities offered, and
urge the advantages to the student, and to do this with the consciousness
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ing forward the work of the world by placing in these strategic positions
men so completely prepared."

These reports, it will be seen, show that the situation is quite
diverse in these different cases. By the addition of a certain
amount of teaching, it seems entirely possible to make a good ad-
justment for law courses, and for courses in higher commercial
training; and, by a comparatively small expenditure to provide
for the earlier stages of the shop work of the technical school, the
College could meet, in a completely satisfactory way, the adjust-
ment to the technical schools. And this adjustment is probably
quite as important to us as that of any other profession, and is
certain to be of increasing importance for some years to come.
It should be remembered that the adjustment to the technical
courses is already made with fair satisfaction, but not with the
same completeness as the recommendations of Dr. St. John would
make possible.

The attitude taken by the medical schools is, in the judgment
of the President, demonstrably unreasonable ; but if the action of
the Association of American Medical Colleges, that after July i,
1905, no student, in any of the four years of his medical course,
shall be permitted to be matriculated in any other department of a
university, really goes into effect, it will not put the independent
college at such special disadvantage.

It seems clear that in the other three cases, where it is prac-
ticable to make the adjustment, it would be a very distinct
strengthening of the position of any independent college to be able
to assure its students that they would be at no disadvantage to
continue with the college throughout their entire college course.
And I trust that it may be possible, at some early date, for Oberlin
to make this full adjustment in these three cases.

THE TRUE FUNCTION OF THE COLLEGE.

This whole question of the relation of the college to profes-
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of the true function of the college. The President has stated so
fully his own educational creed, and his judgment of what the
policy of the college should be, in the full discussion, of which the
inaugural address was a part, that it is quite unnecessary that he
should go largely into that discussion here. The very diverse
views of the college, presented from the same platform by leading
educators at the National Education Association, certainly do not
indicate that it is wise for Oberlin to depart from its previous
ideals and general policy, especially when it seems plain that those
ideals and that policy are commending themselves increasingly to
a most valuable constituency. The President may be allowed
simply to quote from his previous discussion a word concerning
the college ideal, and a few considerations concerning the problem
of the possible shortening of the college course : "The supreme
opportunity, in other words, that a college education should offer,
is opportunity to use one's full powers in a wisely chosen, complex
environment, in association with the best; — and all this in an at-
mosphere, catholic in its interests, objective in spirit and method,
and democratic, unselfish, and finely reverent in its personal rela-
tions. Such an ideal definitely combines the best of both the older
and the newer college. And the colleges that most completely
fulfill this ideal have, I judge, a work which is beyond price, and
without possible substitute."

"In this whole problem of the possible shortening of the col-
lege course for the sake of students looking to professional stud-
ies, several things need to be kept closely in mind, if confusion is
to be avoided.

"In the first place, if the professional course is a full rigorous
four-year course, this ought to mean, and usually does mean, that
it has been laid out on somewhat broad and liberal lines, and not
with reference to mere narrow technique. And the student who
is to continue his study through such a course can more easily
afford to abridge the time given to the two courses.

"This same broadening of the professional course, moreover.

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makes possible an entirely legitimate adjustment to the coming
professional study on the part of the college. In every broadly
planned professional course of four years, there is quite certain to
be at least a year of work of so liberal a character that it may
justly be counted toward both the college and the professional
degree. And the colleges which can oflFer such work of first
quality -for the different professions can meet squarely and strong-
ly every legitimate demand for abridging the entire period of
study, and can then, in all probability, in the gfreat majority of
cases, render a better service to the student himself, to the pro-
fessional school, and to society, by retaining the student in the
atmosphere of the college through his full four years.

"It is further to be noted that in any case this reason for
shortenting college courses holds only for such professional stu-
dents. For the majority of college students, including almost all
the women, such shortening is not called for, and would be only
a calamity. Even the smallest real colleges, therefore, that can
do very little in the way of adjustment to professional courses,
and that may have to lose many, perhaps most, of those looking
to professional work, would still have their former most important
service to render for the majority of their students.

"Moreover, it seems to me wholly probable that a good pro-
portion of the very ablest and clearest-sighted of those going into
the professions, will still choose not to deprive themselves of the
very best the college can give them, and will therefore prefer
not to specialize in college in precisely those subjects to which the
larger part of all their later study in any case must be devoted.
And, through specialization in other lines, such exceptional stu-
dents will look forward confidently to a larger life and a higher
professional success than could otherwise come to them. These
wisest students will certainly not wish to sacrifice acquaintance
with the natural great broad human subjects of the last year in
college to professional specialization. And even those students
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are wise, will so scatter their preliminary professional study
through their college course, as to insure that at least a part of
their maturest time in college may be given to those great sub-
jects, like philosophy, that require some real maturity of mind to
be most profitably taken. I do not believe that the proper de-
mands of both liberal and professional training can be met where
it is attempted to cover both courses in six years. Even where
the requisite subjects are all covered by brilliant students the value
of the outcome may well be doubted. It is not to be forgotten
that it is time, and some real sense of leisure, and opporunity to
take in the full significance of one's studies and to knit them up
with the rest of one's thinking and living — it is just these things
that distinguish real education from cramming."

It may be added, that a very careful investigation made by
President Harris of the facts concerning Amherst College does
not bear out the common statement that colleges graduates are
getting to their life work much later than was formerly the case.

STUDENTS.

Attendance,

The Secretary's report has tabulated so carefully and ex-
haustively all the facts upon this point that it is not necessary to
do more here than to call attention to the gratifying growth
which still continues. The gain in the college department is still
notable, and the figures for the year upon which we are just en-
tered show an enrollment, for the first time in the history of the
College, of more than six hundred men and women of full college
rank.

There are many influences at work which make it almost
unavoidable that a co-educational college of the first rank should
be likely finally to have a larger attendance of women than of
men. In the first place, a much larger number of young women
than of young men are graduating from the secondary schools of
the country. In the second place, the number of young women
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the number of men. In the third place, there are more colleges
of the first rank competing with one another for the men than
colleges of the first rank competing for the women. And, in the
fourth place, the large and flourishing technical schools of the
country are drawing many young men who otherwise would be
likely to turn to the college; there is no corresponding competi-
tion for the young women. These facts mean that a co-educa-
tional college that means to keep the number of its men per-
manently about equal to the number of women, must take unusual
pains to secure the attendance of men. I most heartily second,
therefore, the general suggestions of the Secretary upon this
point. Both for the sake of the young men and of the young wo-
men, and in harmony with the real principles of co-education, it
is desirable that the number of young men in the college depart-
ment should not be greatly exceeded by the number of young
women.

A second question raised by the Secretary, as to the number
of students that can be wisely admitted to the college department,
is one requiring serious consideration. There seems to be a limit
in numbers, beyond which the largest educational service cannot
be rendered. Quality is of far more concern, particularly in col-
lege education, than quantity. And the college that fails to
maintain some real personal contact on the part of its officers and
teachers with pupils, is failing in its most important work. The
President's opinion is that we have not yet reached the limit of
numbers that can be wisely accommodated ; but that goal is pretty
clearly in sight, if the present growth continues. In the meantime,
just what the proper limit for attendance in a college of the high-
est type should be, may well be a matter for serious consideration
on the part of us all.

The growing size of the student body is indicated, amoi^
other things, by the call for a students' directory. Such a direc-
tory was issued last year for the first time, and another is being
prepared for the present year.

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Health.

The reports of the Deans and of the Directors of the G)mi-
nasiums, show that the general health of the students in the year
past has been exceptionally good ; and there have been few cases
of serious illness of any kind. In spite of the great prevalence of
smallpox in the vicinity, no member of the student body was
attacked by the disease, although several were specially exposed
to the contagion by a case coming from out of town.

Only one death has occurred among the entire student body
during the year, that of Miss Alice Lovelle Howard, of Louisville,
Kentucky, in May, 1903. Miss Howard was a student in the
Conservatory, and died in operation for appendicitis.

We may well be grateful for such a showing in the matter
of health ; and yet the real need of some modest provision in the
way of a college hospital seems to me still to be very great. Con-
ditions might arise at any time that would subject us to the most
serious criticism, if we continue much longer without some such
provision.

Athletics and Physical Training.

The general situation in athletics has probably never been
better than during the year just past. The advisory board, the
graduate manager, the coaches, and the students themselves have
all cooperated to make possible the maintenance of a high ideal.
In the spirit in which they have entered upon their athletics, in
their attention to the other sides of their work, and in their repre-
sentation of the College in games away, the conduct of the men
in the various athletic teams has been for the most part all that
could be reasonably asked.

The movement for a women's athletic field, it is hoped, will
make possible a greater variety of healthful outdoor exercise for
the young women.

Basket ball has been recognized among us this year, for
the first time, as an inter-collegiate sport. Tennis and golf
associations, also, have been organized, and an inter-collegiate

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tennis match was played at Wooster. It seems thoroughly
desirable to encourage as large a variety as possible in these
athletic sports, that the gain of athletic training may not be
confined to a comparatively small fraction of the student body.

Steps have been taken toward the organization of the Acad-
emy athletics on a basis practically independent of the College;
and it seems not unlikely that complete separation at this point
may soon wisely follow. There can be no doubt that a real gain
has been made in the athletics of the Academy this fall, in con-
sequence of the appointment of Mr. Dudley B. Reed, who takes
up, with his teaching, some special responsibility for the athletic
side of the academy life. The Principal of the Academy feels
great satisfaction in the present athletic situation in this respect.

It is obvious, however, that probably even with the widest
feasible extension in variety of games introduced, the larger part
of the student body cannot be so reached. The physical develop-
ment of the students and the full contribution to be made by
physical education, it is certain, can never be attained through ath-
letics alone ; and the College is therefore to be most heartily con-
gratulated upon the large success attained by the credit courses in
the g3rmnasium. It is exceedingly gratifying, for example, to find
that eighty-seven per cent, of the men in the college department
are making use of the men's gymnasium. The report of the Di-
rector of the Men's Gymnasium is an impressive exhibit of the
great contribution made to the college life through the splendid
gift by Dr. Warner of the gymnasium building, and through the
efficient management of the Director.

The great disadvantage, on the other hand, under which the
Director of the Women's Gymnasium labors, must be evident
from any careful reading of her report. It is depressing to note
that it has been necessary to debar a considerable number of col-
lege and conservatory young women, who desired the advantages
of regular gymnasium training, because the work desired simply
could not be given with the present limitations in building and

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force. It is naturally rather discouraging to Dr. Hanna to find
that after eighteen years of efficient service, the equipment for
her work is still but little greater than when she first came to the

College.

Discipline,

The reports of the Deans and Directors indicate that there
have been comparatively few cases requiring serious discipline,
and with these it has been possible to deal quietly. While there
are some occasions of anxiety, always, on this side of our work,
the general spirit of the student body seems to have been thor-
oughly wholesome. We may count upon still greater gains as
traditions become more established in line with the changed reg-
ulations of the College. There can be no doubt, I think, that the
spirit of co-operation between the Faculty and the student body
is much more marked and cordial than was the case before the
regulations were changed. Real progress has been made in devel-
oping student sentiment upon some important matters of conduct.

Attention should be called to the continued success of student
government in the halls, as noticed by Dr. Luce in her report, and
of the extension of this plan to two other large boarding houses
in the town. The hearty co-operation of the conservatory stu-
dents, besides, in organizing men's and women's student boards to
serve the varied interests of the Conservatory, also deserves
special mention in this connection.

New Admission Requirements and Freshman Electives.
The Secretary's report takes up so exhaustively the working
of the new admission requirements and freshman electives, that
attention needs only to be called here to the fact that there seems
no reason to regret the change made in either case. Both policies
are apparently working with entire satisfaction.

Scholarship.

Taken all in all, the general scholarship of the student body
was probably never better than today. There is small disposition

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on the part of any of the students to seek simply easy courses.
And yet it must be recognized that there are all too few who throw
themselves deeply into the study of their subjects, to attain any-
thing like a specialized mastery. The tendency is still quite too
strong on the part of our brighter students, to seek to pile up
hours in taking more courses, rather than to attempt a real mas-
tery of fewer subjects. The opening of the Library in the even-
ing will no doubt help many to more thorough work. The work
of the committee on failure in scholarship, to which extended ref-
erence was made last year, has been continued with good results.

Graduate Scholarships,
The list of students using graduate scholarships for the yeai:
upon which we have just entered, is as follows :

Miss Mary Hallock, Mathematics and Physics.

Mr. Carl E. Zeller, Chemistry.

Mr. William H. Partridge, Latin and Greek.

Mr. John E. Wirkler, Economics and History.

Miss Mabel A. Jones, Philosophy.

Mrs. Florence F. Bates, English.

It is as plain as last year that these graduate scholarships are
a distinct advantage, in -several ways, to the college life. The
holders of these graduate scholarships, it should be noted, do
not include all the graduate students. It deserves notice that in
the department of Physics alone there are this year enrolled six
graduate students.

In connection with these graduate scholarships, the follow-
ing statement from Professor Grover's report to the President
may be added :

"During the past five years I have had three assistants, under the
arrangement that the Assistant in Botany is really a teaching fellow,
devoting one-half his time to teaching and the other half to graduate
study. All of these have been graduates of the College, and all are
now occupying college positions in Botany or Biology. They are
Miss M. E. Kennedy, O. C. 1899, who has charge of the department
of Biology in Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.; Miss I. S. Smith,

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O. C. 1901, in charge of the department of Biology in Illinois Col-
lege, Jacksonville, Illinois, during the absence of the permanent
head; and Miss I. F. Stebbins, O. C. 1902, my assistant of last year,
who is now Professor of Botany in Huguenot College, Wellington,
Cape Colony, S. Africa. Mr. H. C. Tracy, O. C. 1902, who held the
graduate scholarship in Natural History last year, and did one-half
his work in Botany, is this year in charge of the new department of
Biology in Oberlin Academy."

Social Life.

The report of the Dean of Women indicates that in her judg-
ment some real gains have been made upon this side of the college
life during the year just past ; and the end aimed at in the changes
suggested and entered upon last year is quite in line with the for-
mal vote of the Conference of Deans, representing seventeen in-
stitutions and ten States, just held at Chicago, and which Dr. Luce
attended. No college, certainly, has the right to ignore this side
of the training of its students.

The women have had a number of very pleasant and some-
what formal occasions by themselves. The organization of the
Women's Glee Club, not at all for representation of the College
abroad, but simply for the greater enjoyment of the college life
here, may also be mentioned, as well as the bringing in of the
custom of the songs by the senior women, and the giving over of
the library steps by the women of the senior class to the women
of the junior class. The Young Women's Christian Association
has also taken pains to fit up more attractively the study-room in
Peters Hall. All these things go to the making up, no doubt, of
a somewhat richer, more attractive student life; and all are en-
tirely wholesome.

Religious Life.

This side of the life of the college was reviewed so fully in
the report of last year, that it is necessary simply to note the
continuance of the same general spirit, and the use of essentially
the same means. The year just past, as well as the year upon
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interest and initiative of the students themselves in these lines.
I think the Christian Associations have never done so much at the
beginning of a college year as at the beginning of this year, both
in the assistance of new students, and in the organization of
classes for Bible and Mission study. The work of both Christian
Associations seems to be in a thoroughly flourishing condition.
Mr. J. E. Sprunger, of the senior class of the Theological Sem-
inary, takes up the work of the secretaryship of the Young Men's
Christian Association, laid down, after very efficient service, by
Mr. W. M. Owen, of the college class of 1901. Nearly six hun-
dred students are regularly enrolled for Bible study, and well
toward one hundred in the mission study classes.

The work of the Dean of the Seminary, as chairman of the
committee on religious work, has been most helpful, in his co-
operation with the students, and in affording them, at their re-
quest, some direct training for Christian work.

OFFICERS.

The Treasurer's report brings out the welcome fact thai the
year 1902-03 yielded a surplus of over $7,000, that can be applied
to the accumulated deficit. The following statement will put be-
fore the Trustees the exact facts concerning the deficits :

Deficits of Recent Years,

Deficit of igoo-oi $10,030 09

Credit by amount from General Fund 142 90

Net deficit from year 1900-01 $ 9,887 19

Net deficit from year 1901-02 8^414 68

Total accumulated deficit, August 31, 1902 $18,301 87

Surplus from year 1902-03 7,301 53

Net deficit, August 31, 1903 $11,000 34

Reference has already been made to the main financial gifts
of the year, as well as to those points in the Secretary's report
which seem to call for special mention here. That report itself
is an impressive exhibit of the amount of work which is done in
the Secretary's office.

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The report of the Librarian makes plain once more the
greatly overcrowded condition of the library building, and the
imperative need of a new fire-proof library building, as well as
the great desirability of the appointment of an additional com-
petent reference librarian. There can be no doubt that such an
appointment would very considerably increase the value of the
library to the student body.

The reports of the other officers have already been referred
to, and seem to require no further special mention at this point.

THE FACULTY.

The work of the Faculty has in no case during the year been
interrupted by serious illness.

It is hoped that a pleasant and valuable feature has been
introduced into the life of the Faculty by the institution of an
annual Faculty Dinner, given by the President. This makes pos-
sible the gathering about the table at least once a year of the entire
body of the Faculty and officers of the College, with their wives,
and enables even the youngest members of the college force to
get a larger sense of the full meaning of the life of which they are
a part. The dinner for the year just past was held at the Park
Hotel on January 12, and in the after-dinner speeches two repre-
sentatives from each department spoke upon the work and needs
of that department. With the growth of the Faculty, it becomes
increasingly important that special effort should be made to bring
together the entire force of the College from time to time, if the
desired sense of unity is to be kept. Only so can the College do
its full and best work.

Reports.

In accordance with the expressed wish of the Faculty them-
selves, only the reports of the officers are printed the present year
with the President's report. This does not mean that each
teacher does not still make a full report of his work for the year
to the President. But the Faculty felt that, on the one hand, the
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unj)rofitable repetition, and, on the other hand, that they could
speak with much more freedom of any special needs to the Presi-
dent, if they knew that their reports were not to be printed for
public circulation. The President need hardly say that it will
be his aim to make certain that no valuable suggestions of the
Faculty are lost, and that the needs of each department are fully
given to the Trustees, either in connection with his own printed
report, or in direct presentation at the meeting of the Board.
The action so taken is in line with the custom followed by most
other colleges, and seems likely to insure, on the whole, the best
results.

Organization.

The complete organization of the Faculty is shown in the fol-
lowing list of committees elected for the year 1903-04 :

GENERAL COUNCIL.

Chairman, KING.
Vice-Chairman, ROOT.
Clerk, MARTIN.
Appointment of Instructors and Adjustment of Work: King, Bos-
worth, Martin, Morrison, St. John.
Budget: Swing, Jewett, King, Peck, St. John.

GENERAL FACULTY.

Chairman, KING.

Vice-chairman, A. A. WRIGHT.

Clerk, MARTIN.

Registrar, WAGER.

Art Exhibition: Martin, Cole, Mrs. Johnston, St. John.

Athletics: Leonard, Miller, St. John.

Care of Buildings: See Committee of Prudential Committee.
Catalogue: G. M. Jones, Bosworth, Peck, Root, Miss Wattles.
Chapel Seating: Miller, Cairns, Miss Currier, Peck, Miss Wolcott,

Mrs. Woodford.
Commencement and other Public Occasions:

I. General Arrangements: King, Bosworth, Carter, Mrs. John-
ston, G. M. Jones, Morrison, Peck, Root.

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2. Entertainment of Guests: Morrison, Miss Barrows, Swing.

3. Processions and Seating: Wager, Cole, Heacox, Lord, St.

John.

4. Alumni Dinner: Martin, Breckenridge, Cairns, Carter.

5. Decoration: Grover, Kimball, Miss Oakes, Taylor, Miss

Thompson;

Conference on Professional or Technical Study: Hall, Bogart,
Leonard, St. John.

Discipline: Miller, Caskey, Jewett, King, Morrison, Peck, St. John.

General Art Interests: Mrs. Johnston, Miss Barrows, Dickinson,
Kimball, Miss Oakes.

Graduate Study and Degrees in Course: Hall, Bewer, Bogart, A. A.
Wright.

Gsrmnasium: Men, Leonard, Miller, St. John. Women, Miss Hanna,
Miss Brownback, Miss Hosford, Miss Wattles.

Honorary Degrees: King, Hall, Swing, Wager, G. F. Wright.

Intercollegiate Debate: Caskey, Bogart, Hall, Root, Wager.

Lectures and Entertainments: Martin, Bosworth, King, MacLennan,
Morrison.

Library: St. John, Bosworth, Dickinson, Grover, Miss Luce, Mar-
tin, Root, Shaw, Wightman.

Musical Organizations: G. M. Jones, Morrison, Peck.

Nominations: King, Bosworth, Jewett, St. John.

Outside Representation and Newspaper Correspondence: G. M.
Jones, Currier, St. John, Wager.

Petitions and Requests from Students: Jewett, Caskey, Morrison.

Printing and Clerk Hire: G. M. Jones, MacLennan, Peck, Wager.

Religious Work: Bosworth, Andrews, Cole, Cowdery, Miss Hos-
ford, L. Jones, Shaw, Sweet, A. A. Wright, G. F. Wright.

Requests for Work with Private Teachers: Peck, Miller, Miss Luce,
Mrs. Woodford.

Secondary Schools: Miller, G. M. Jones, MacLennan, Peck, St. John.

Social Occasions: Grover, Miss Barrows, Bogart, Cairns, Cowdery,
F. G. Doolittle, Miss Fitch, Miss Luce, Shaw.

Student Publications and Exercises: Jewett, Caskey, Wager.

Summer School: Hall, Cairns, Martin, Miller.

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COLLEGE COUKCIL.

Chairman, KING.
Vice-Chairman, HALL.

Clerk, MARTIN.

Appointments: King, Hall, Jcwett, Martin, A. A. Wright.
Budget: Jcwett, Hall, St. John.

COLLEGE FACULTY.

Chairman, KING.

Vice-Chairman, HALL.

Dean of College Men, MILLER.

Clerk, MARTIN.

Assigning Officer, CASKEY.

Admission: G. M. Jones, Cairns, Cole, Grover, Gubelman, Hall, Mar-
tin, St. John, Wager, Wightman, Miss Wolcott, A. A. Wright.

Course of Study: Martin, Hall, Wager.

Failure in Scholarship: Miller, Cairns, Cowdery, Martin, Miss Wol-
cott.

Free Tuition and Beneficiary Aid: Men, G. M. Jones, Jewett, Mar-
tin, Miller, Wightman. Women, Miss Hosford, Miss Barrows,
Miss Currier, Miss Hanna, Mrs. Lord, Miss Luce.

Nominations: King, Hall, Jewett, Wager.

Postponement of Required Work: Hall, Cairns, Caskey.

Private Study and Additional Work: Wager, Cole, Lord, Miss Luce,
Martin, Miller, Miss Wolcott.

Schedules: MacLennan, L. Jones.

Student Conferences: King, Miller, Wager.

Class Prayer-Meeting Leaders: Seniors, King. Juniors, Jewett.
Sophomores, Root. Freshmen, Bosworth.

THEOLOGICAL FACULTY.

Chairman and Dean, BOSWORTH.

Secretary and Registrar, MISKOVSKY.

Advertising, Newspaper Correspondence and Printing: Bosworth,
Bewer, Miskovsky.

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Beneficiary Aid: Swing, Currier, King.

Catalogue: Bosworth, Miskovsky.

Commencement: Bosworth, Caskey, Currier, Miskovsky.

Council Hall: Swing, Bosworth, Miskovsky.

Curriculum: Bosworth, Bewer, Swing.

Finance and Budget: Swing, Bosworth, King.

Outside Representation and Lectures: Bosworth, Bewer, G. F.

Wright.
Pulpit Supplies: Currier, Bewer, Bosworth.
Railroad Correspondence: Currier.
Slavic Department: Miskovsky, Bosworth, Currier, Swing.

ACADEMY FACULTY.

Chairman, PECK.

Secretary, MISS HOSFORD.

Appointments and Budget: Peck, Miss Brownback, Cowdery, Miss

Hosford, Shaw, Miss Smithe, Miss Thompson.

CONSERVATORY COUNCIL.

Chairman, MORRISON.
Secretary, F. G. DOOLITTLE.

Appointments: Morrison, Andrews, Carter, Sweet.
Budget: Morrison, F. G. Doolittle, Heacox.

CONSERVATORY FACULTY.

Chairman, MORRISON.

Secretary, LEHMANN.

Artists' Recitals: Morrison, Adams, Breckenridge.

Graduation: Morrison, Dickinson, Heacox, Mrs. Woodford, and

other teachers of candidate in question.

The most important change in the officers of the Faculty
is due, of course, to the election of Mr. Miller as Dean of Col-
lege Men. It will be noticed that the offices of Registrar and
Assigning Officer have been separated, and that Professor Wager
has been made Registrar, and Professor Caskey, Assigning
Officer.

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The assignment of committee work in connection with com-
mencement and other public occasions has been, in the light of
the experience of the past year, much more carefully and thor-
oughly done than has hitherto been the case. New committees
on general art interests and on secondary schools have been
added. The former committee on substitutions has become the
committee on private study and additional work; and the work
of that committee so organized that the work will be done more
effectively, and much valuable time saved for the Faculty.

A list of the joint committees of the Trustees and Faculty
already elected on endowment and on new buildings is also
printed for convenience of reference :

New Hatf-MiUion Fund: King, H. Clark Ford, I. W. Metcalf, L. H.

Severance, G. W. ShurtleflF, Bosworth, Root.
Chapel: King, H. H. Johnson, C. S. Mills, Doolittle, Morrison,

J. R. Severance, Swing.
Administration Building: King, L. H. Severance, Doolittle, G. M.

Jones, Peck, J. R. Severance, Miss Wolcott.
Library: King, Bosworth, I. W. Metcalf, Root, St. John.
Biological Science Building: King, D. P. Allen, Grover, L. Jones,

Leonard, A. A. Wright.
Art Building: King, D. P. Allen, Mrs. Johnston, Martin, St. John.

Increase in Instruction Units.

The Secretary's report brings out the naturally large in-
crease in instruction units, due to the considerably larger num-
ber of students. One of the most encouraging things evident
from the Secretary's table is that some of the most difficult sub-
jects are making largest gains. In some cases it seems clear that
the desire of the professor in charge to make the very most of his
department, necessitates his carrying, plainly, more hours than he
ought to carry. In making any comparisons between depart-
ments, it should, of course, always be remembered, as noted in
the report of last year, that certain subjects are, in the nature of
the case, of such a kind as not to attract large numbers of stu-

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dents. A class of moderate size in such a subject may indicate
as real a success on the part of the teacher as a very much larger
number in some other subject.

The increase in the number of students the present year, as
compared with last year, has made necessary the forming of some
additional classes both in German and Mathematics, and what
must be considered an over-crowding of the divisions in Fresh-
man Latin. The work in Physics, too, has been so largely elected
as to necessitate some additional assistance in the physical labora-
tory. The situation in German will probably be fully met next
year in the return of Professor Abbott, without further assistance
than that already provided by the one additional instructor. But
it seems probable that a little more assistance will be permanently
needed in Mathematics, Latin, and Physics. The number in the
required course in Psychology has also become so large as to
make it seem almost imperative either that that subject should be
made elective, or that provision should be made for teaching the
course in much smaller sections. And the increased number in the
zoological laboratory has made necessary the purchase of ten
more microscopes for the students' use. There is a good enroll-
ment in the class in Elementary Greek, under Mr. Lord. It will
be remembered that this course is given for the first time in
Q>llege the present year.

The teaching work of the College in the year past has cer-
tainly been done with efficiency and well recognized success.
The President only wishes that it were possible to help the Fac-
ulty to the possibility of more individual investigation, through
the lightening of the teaching hours, and through a much larger
provision of the needed tools for work, in the enlargement of the
appropriation for their various departments in the library.

GENERAL NEEDS.

There can be no doubt of the immediate need of the full
amount of $500,000 suggested by the Boston donor in his con-

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ditional oflFer; and a very much larger amount could be used at
once with decided advantage, as the following list of needs of
Oberlin College, prepared some months ago, may indicate. This
list of needs is, of course, intended to take a long look ahead;
and yet it is believed that it contains no item that could not be
used by the College with profit and ^reat advantage at once.

The list looks, it will also be seen, not to the making of a
university but of a college of the highest type, developing along
the lines of Oberlin's present work.

It has been thought well to indicate as precisely as possible
just those contributions which would bring to the highest effi-
ciency existing lines of work. But with this strengthening of
the present work, it seems to the President clear that the ample
equipment and thorough endowment of a technical school would
be a most wise and valuable enlargement of the work of Oberlin.
It would be distinctly attractive to men, and would open another
large field of influence to the College. Its ideals are needed here,
as well as in the more general college education. Not less than
a half million dollars would probably be needed for the successful
establishment of such a school.

It seems impossible to arrange the needs in the exact order
of their pressing importance; for among several of the needs it
is hard to choose. But some approach to such an order is at-
tempted in this list ; though it is manifest that the clock and bell
could be provided much more economically in connection with
one of the buildings than in a separate tower, if not so beautifully
and satisfactorily. The aesthetic contribution of a separate
clock and bell tower to the life of the College would be very con-
siderable.

. It will be noticed that endowment is mentioned in connection
with each building; for the provision of such endowment seems
absolutely necessary if the College is to avoid deficits. It is sin-
cerely to be hoped that donors of future buildings may be able
to provide at the same time for the endowment of the building

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given. The burning of the College Chapel pushes the Chapel
need, of course, to the front.

1 Endowment for the Chapel itself $25,00000

2 Organ for the Chapel 15,000 00

3 Clock and Bell Tower 20,00000

4 Library Endowment , 100,000 00

5 Endowment to increase salaries 200,000 00

6 Added Endowment for the Seminary, to meet

falling rates of interest, and for merit scholar-
ships .* 75,000 00

7 Building for the Departments of Botany,

Zoology, Geology and Physiology, with en-
dowment 150,000 00

8 Fire-proof Administration Building and en-

dowment 40,000 00

9 Endowment for two graduate fellowships 30,000 00

10 Additional endowment for merit scholarships

in the College Department 30,000 00

11 Additional Halls of Residence 100,00000

12 A Y. M. C. A. building, to be a social center,

and the center of all the men's activities, with
endowment 75,ooo 00

13 Endowment to provide for a broad and thor-

ough adjustment to professional, technical

and higher commercial courses 150,000 00

14 Endowment to increase the work in Pedagogy. . 50,000 00

15 College Hospital and endowment 30,00000

16 Central Heating and Lighting Plant 100,00000

17 Women's Gymnasium and endowment 90,000 00

18 Women's Recreation Grounds 5,00000

19 Endowment for a General Lectureship 30,000 00

20 Endowment for the Department of Physical

Education 50,000 00

21 Academy Building and endowment 100,000 00

22 Fire-proof Library Building and endowment . . . 200,000 00

23 Landscape Architect and attendant expenses... 10,00000

24 Money for additional land needed 40,00000

25 Added Library endowment 100,000 00

26 Added Seminary endowment 50,00000

27 Endowment for increasing teaching force in

College 150,000 00

28 Endowment for Academy ioo,«oo oa

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29 Endowment for Conservatory 4 Io6,o00 00

30 Physical Laboratory and endowment 65,000 00

31 Art Building, equipment and endowment 40,000 00

32 Endowment for the Art Department 50,000 00

33 Additional General Endowment 200,00000

34 Pension fund 100,00000

Out of this list of needs it is difficult to choose exactly those
which are most of all pressing. And yet I suppose there would be
practically unanimous agreement on the part of the Faculty that
it would be little short of a calamity if the College should be with-
out a chapel building longer than the present year. The generous
offer and arrangement by the First Church alone makes possible
an even tolerable situation. But the Church is already much
over-crowded, and in the nature of the case cannot furnish such
a center for the college life as the Chapel would do.

The library endowment has been so emphasized by all the
teachers in their reports in recent years, that there can be no ques-
tion of its vital bearing on every department of the College. The
Faculty have indicated their own sense of the critical need of the
enlargement of the library, by turning all their subscriptions to
the previous Half-Million Fund into the library endowment. A
fire-proof library building, with an endowment of at least $100,-
000, would probably do more than any one thing to strengthen
the entire inner life of the College. In the meantime, it would
seem that the appropriation to the Library for the year 1903-04,
already voted, might well be increased to $2,000.

The great need of additional endowment to increase the sal-
aries of regular professors will hardly be questioned, I think, by
any. In the language of one of your own number, "The expense
of living has increased at least twenty per cent during the last
ten years, so that for all practical purposes the salaries of the
professors have been cut that amount. It seems to me that the
need of an increase is very urgent, and that it should be brought
about as soon as it is possible to do it and not close the year in
debt."

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As to the need of added endowment for the Seminary, refer-
ence may be made to the report of the Dean of the Seminary, and
to the following careful statement of the chairman of the finance
and budget committee of the Seminary, Professor Swing. In
presenting this full statement of the Seminary, it should be re-
membered that while there have been very considerable gains in
the endowment and equipment of almost every other department
of the College, the Seminary has had to face a diminishing in-
come. Professor Swing's statement follows:

'The financial situation is, however, more acute than it has
been for a number of years immediately past. Attention has al-
ready been called to the fact that when the Seminary was set off seven
years ago to live on a designated endowment, the rate of interest
then secured was 6 per cent. It is now only 45/^ per cent. The
diminution of income has caused an increasing embarrassment in
the administering of the affairs of the Seminary. And, notwith-
standing the fact that something like $10,000 have been added to
the endowment, and that every possible economy has been resorted
to, the Seminary, from having a small surplus, is facing the fact of
deficits which are growing alarmingly larger. And this in face of
the fact that the Seminary expenses are less by nearly $2,000 than
they were fifteen years ago.

"When the Trustees created the office of Dean, it was no doubt
wisely done; but the fact needs to be recognized that it was without
any additional endowment to cover the increased expense. The
action has therefore authorized the annual increase of the deficit
by $500.

"The Seminary is facmg a deficit which, by next year, will be
in the neighborhood of $1,000 a year. This will prove a serious em-
barrassment just now, when it seems possible to push the Sem-
inary to a larger efficiency than it has enjoyed in its recent history.

"Council Hall, also, will need to be changed from hot water
to steam heat, and this change, for many reasons, should be made
as soon as possible. The roof is badly decayed, having been con-
tinued for seven years past its time by temporary patching, which
is continually giving way, to the damage of the rooms beneath.
The building needs a thorough overhauling and renovation, whicb
shoufd be made in connection with the above changes. The time
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be secured, to give their entire time to the suitable care of this
building, which is not only the sole home of the Theological Seminary
for recitation and social purposes, but for the housing of sixty
young men, who use this building as a dormitory. I know of no
such building anywhere in the whole educational world, that is left
as is this one to such care as can be given to it by faculty supervision,
for the lack of funds.

"In the judgment of the financial committee there is, therefore,
need of an immediate increase of the Seminary endowment by
$50,000, simply to carry on the Seminary on its present basis, with-
out one step taken in the way of advancement — which should
itself call for the earliest possible attention by the Trustees. The
Seminary can take a forward position now, if ever, and should
be given the fair means with which to do it."

With reference to the Building for Biological Science, I can
only repeat the statement of the last report, that the greatest
large need, undoubtedly, of the college department in the way of
material equipment, is for the long expected building for Biologi-
cal Science. In this judgment I think there would be general
agreement on the part of all the members of the college Faculty.

The President heartily seconds, also, all that the college
Secretary says concerning the pressing need of a new fire-proof
Administration Building, One shudders to think of the inevitable
and irreparable loss which must follow a fire in the present offices.
It is simply impossible, under the present circumstances, ade-
quately to protect much invaluable material, or to make the offices
count, as they ought, to their full power for the College.

The need of endowment for two graduate fellowships is a
need easy to overlook, but, as the President has insisted for many
years, one of the really most vital needs of the College, if it is to
be able to have a reasonable number of candidates from its own
alumni available for work on its teaching force.

Another need that is forced upon our attention by the large
increase in the number of students in the last two years is fully
indicated in the reports of the college Secretary and of the Dean
of College Women. It seems impossible for us to control prices

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and accommodations in the town to the extent that we ought,
unless we can provide for a larger proportion of the students of
the College in buildings of our own. New halls of residence, thus,
seem imperatively demanded.

A beginning has been made in the direction of the work of a
Landscape Architect, by the report of the Olmsted Brothers,
which has already been manifolded and sent out to the members
of the Board of Trustees. ,It seems desirable that at least the
general outline of such a plan should be passed upon, the loca-
tion of the Administration Building decided upon, and the slight
further expense undertaken, that would insure the best laying out
of walks for the college campus, and the indication of such trees
as ought plainly to be removed, and the putting of the others into
the best possible condition.

A good argument, I believe, lies behind every other need
suggested. But space may be taken to speak at length of only one
further need, — that of 2l Y. M. C. A, Building, to be a center of
all the men's activities. I believe that Oberlin offers for such a
building a really unique opportunity — an opportunity, that is, that
it would be very difficult to match, in my judgment, in almost any
other college. The fact that we have no fraternity houses, and
no regular college dormitories for men, leaves the men really
without any ordinary social centers ; and gives, therefore, a very
gjeat and most valuable opportunity to a Y. M. CA. building, if
the plan is made sufficiently large. Instead of being a mere small
aside, as is the case in most colleges where a Y. M. C. A. building
is erected, the building here could easily become the real center
of all the men's activities, and beyond all doubt, the most effective
element in their social life. The usual smaller building, therefore,
that is erected in many colleges for $25,000 or $30,000, in my
judgment would simply not meet our need at all ; and, moreover,
would block the way to the securing of such a building as the
situation really does demand.

We want a building more along the lines of Houston Hall,

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at the University of Pennsylvania ; a building that should contain
something more than rooms for strictly Association matters, but
should still be thoroughly under the control of the Y. M. C. A.
We have already over five hundred men to provide for ; and the
building that is to be sufficient really to serve as an effective center
for that number of men must of course be of some size, and pro-
vide for a variety of wants.

My thought is that the building ought to contain not only
the ordinary rooms needed for the Y. M. C. A. work — such as
the meeting room for four or five hundred ; a secretary's office ;
a large parlor and reception room, with two or three smaller
parlors; small class-rooms for the Bible classes; reading-room;
reference library room for Bible and Association work; and a
game room; — but also a convenient men's study-room, with the
most important standard reference books; rooms for the men's
five literary societies ; a room for the Athletic Association, which
should also be their trophy room, with perhaps a small commit-
tee room adjoining ; a music-room that should serve as the head-
quarters for the College Glee Club, and have a piano in it; and
a committee-room for the editors of the college paper, the Re-
znew, I have also wished very much that we might be able to
provide in such a building something of the opportunities of a
good club, in a well-run dining-room, with kitchen, pantry, etc.,
though this may be too much to expect. I have wished, also,
that in the third story there might be enough rooms provided to
accommodate perhaps twenty men, who should be the most im-
portant student-elected officers in the College, including the presi-
dent, secretary, treasurer, vice-president, and chairmen of the chief
committees of the Y. M. C. A. ; the editor and financial manager
of the Review; the president, treasurer, and corresponding secre-
tary of the Union Library Association ; the president of the Glee
Qub ; the captains of the three athletic teams ; and the presidents
of the four college classes. This would give just enough men to
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something of the atmosphere of a home, and would be sure to
make the association building and the relijgious work carried on
in it more effective than it could possibly be otherwise. Indeed, I
think one could hardly keep the men out of such a building.

I am certain that if a plan something like this could be carried
out, few buildings connected with the College could make any-
thing like so large a contribution to the life of the Institution.
We have not been doing, I think, what we ought for the men, in
the direction in which this building would serve. And this build-
ing would be a great new source of strength to the entire College,
especially in affecting the inner life of the men.

Departments,

For the work and needs of the several departments, so far as
they have not already been touched upon, the President may
simply refer to the reports of the heads of those departments ; and
to these reports he asks the careful attention of the Trustees.

It will be seen that the Academy has made very distinct
gains in the line of the recommendations made by the special com-
mittee of the Trustees and by the advisory committee on the
Academy, and that the Principal urges, as perhaps the most press-
ing present need, the appointment of a special representative of the
Academy, to visit in person parents, teachers, and students, to
insure the growth in that department which might reasonably be
expected.

The work of the College Department is not presented sep-
arately by any special officer, and there may therefore be brought
together here appropriately the particular needs mentioned by
different members of the college Faculty, in their individual re-
ports.

In addition to the needs indicated in the list already pre-
sented by the President, and in addition to the suggestions made
by the Directors of the Gymnasiums, by the Dean of College
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technical or professional schools, the following smaller needs may
* be mentioned : More equipment for the work of surveying is
asked for, in order that the increasing number of students in that
work may be reasonably provided for. As Mr. Cairns says in
his report, "It is worth noting, in consideration of the adaptation
of our work for those anticipating technical work, that one of our
graduates of the past year passed, with high credits, the United
' States civil service examination for aid on the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and was almost at once appointed to
a position in that work." The offering of the courses in Spanish
and Italian for a year, instead of for one semester, seems desirable,
as well as the further division of the classes in Latin. This last
change would probably require the full time, instead of part time,
of an additional instructor for the Latin. Professor Jewett calls
attention to the need of the department of Chemistry for the en-
tire space in the laboratory, making it necessary that the othier de-
partments partially accommodated there should go elsewhere ; and
to the need of some additions to the mineralogical collection for
the classes in Mineralogy.

The definite recommendations of the Council for the present
and the ensuing year will be presented to the Trustees in connec-
tion with the report of the budget committee.

HENRY CHURCHILL KING.

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Reports of Officers.

Report of the Secretary.

To the President:

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my fifth annual report
as Secretary of Oberlin College, covering the year 1902-03.

That portion of my work which includes correspondence with
prospective students and the arrangement of their admission credits
grows in volume each year. There are many incidental pieces of
work Vhich come to this office, which take considerable time, but it
has been my deliberate judgment that the correspondence with new
students should have precedence over the other calls. The office cor-
respondence is heaviest in the month from August 15 to September
15 each year. During that period last summer I found it necessary
to employ a number of additional clerks. The office force numbered
seven during most of that time. By thus increasing the force we
were able to give satisfactory attention to the letters, and for the
first time since I began the work of Secretary I have felt that the
letters and inquiries which came to my office were attended to with
sufficient promptness.

Since the middle of February this office has been located in the
Powers House at 122 West College street, a suite of rooms on the
second floor being assigned for our use. On the night of the Chapel
fire, practically everything was carried out from the offices in the
Chapel, with the exception of a small card list containing the names
of about five hundred students whom I considered most probable can-
didates for admission to the College for the succeeding fall. The
loss of this card catalogue handicapped our work somewhat, but we
were able to replace it in part by rereading the letters on file in the
correspondence cases. Much inconvenience was caused by the destruc-
tion in the Registrar's office of the entrance certificates which showed
the details of admission credits for those who had entered as students
in Oberlin during the last two or three years. Many of the papers
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tically impossible to secure new records. The house at 122 West
College street seemed better located and better adapted for tem-
porary office purposes than any other building considered by the
Prudential Committee. But the danger from fire, so far at least as
my office is concerned, is so great that a new fire-proof administra-
tion building ought to be undertaken immediately. With my office
situated where it is there would be no chance to save the contents if
a fire should get well started. The material in the office is such that
it cannot be moved down to the Treasurer's vault each evening. High
school students have written to me from time to time, stating that
they would not be able to come to Oberlin in the fall of 1903, but that
they hoped to come in the fall of 1904 or in the fall of 1905, and these
letters arc carefully preserved and card memoranda are made to
enable us to send catalogues and letters at the proper time. I have
found that when students indicate a desire to attend a college at
some future time they do not like to have the college forget them.
A fire in the present office building would destroy not only^ some
records of former students which can only be replaced with great
difficulty, if at all, but would seriously interfere with plans for secur-
ing new students for the coming years.

It should be added that the temporary office is inadequately heated
in winter. Even in the comparatively mild weather of late October
and early November, we are finding it impossible to get a temperature
of more than 55 or 60 degrees, and it has not seemed wise to install a
larger furnace. During a considerable portion of the year, but es-
pecially in the summer, the office is overcrowded, and it is almost
impossible to properly conduct the office business. The need is urgent
for this office for adequate quarters in a fire-proof building with full
equipment for preserving the records and conducting the correspond-
ence which comes to the office.

The card catalogue of former students, which was begun three
years ago, has been brought down to the year 1867, but work on this
has been stopped owing to the insecurity of the office. With such
a fire risk as we are facing, it has not seemed to me worth while to
increase the quantity of the record matter here stored.

The "Bulletin of Oberlin College," issued bi-monthly, included
last year the Annual Reports (two editions), the preliminary edition
of the Catalogue, the final edition of the Catalogue, the Necrology
Record for the year, and a pamphlet containing the revised state-
ment of requirements for admission to the College Department.

The Catalogue was issued in two editions. The first edition

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appeared in February, and was used largely for distribution to high
schools, high school teachers, and prospective students. The second
edition of the Catalogue, which we had hoped to issue in May, was de-
layed because of inadequate printing facilities, and did not appear
until August loth. The final edition was of great service, however,
during t^e remaining weeks of the summer campaign, and there
are enough copies on hand at the present time to supply the requests
for catalogue information which may be received during the re-
mainder of this calendar year. It is planned to issue the Cata-
logue for the coming year in two editions, the first edition to appear
about January ist and the second to appear about June ist. In
many cases the high school students reach their decisions as to the
place of college study during the winter months from January to
March. The preliminary edition of the Catalogue ought to accom-
plish and does accomplish much in securing a consideration of the
attractions of Oberlin.

Several thousand copies of the illustrated descriptive pamphlet
were burned in the Chapel fire. It seemed wise to issue a new edition
of the pamphlet without much change in the reading matter, but with
a large number of new half tone cuts. The new pamphlet was
received early in July, and it proved of great value in the summer
work. These illustrated pamphlets are issued in large editions of
10,000 copies each, at a cost of about three cents a copy. We find
that we can distribute five thousand of them each year to good
advantage.

The correspondence which I have had with young men during
the last five years has led me to believe that it would be a very de-
sirable thing to have a technical department in Oberlin College.
If adequate endowment could be secured, a thoroughly good school
of engineering could be started. Such a school would have a tend-
ency to restore the equilibrium of the sexes in Oberlin. It would mean
much for those young men who pursue engineering courses to be able
to take their work in Oberlin, enjoying the benefit of daily contact
with students pursuing courses in the liberal arts and in music. The
Trustees are probably aware of the arrangement, now in force be-
tween Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied
Science, whereby young men spend three years in Adelbert College
and two years in Case School, receiving at the end of five years the
degree of A. B. from Western Reserve University and S. B. from
Case School. The wisdom of a five-year combination course may
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school should be opened in Oberlin, a wise arrangement could cer-
tainly be made leading to the combination degree in six years. The
arrangement above referred to, for granting both degrees after five
years of work, would be open to the objection that the number of
liberal art courses which a student could take in addition to those
of strictly technical nature would not be as great as has heretofore
been expected from those upon whom Oberlin has bestowed her
degree of Bachelor of Arts. That some provision should soon be
made whereby engineering courses may be offered in Oberlin in
combination with the work of the College Department seems to me
to become more urgent each year. It will be a very desirable pre-
liminary step toward this great end if the Trustees can see their way
clear at this meeting to make an appropriation for the erection of a
building equipped for shop work, as recommended by Dr. St. John.

My correspondence of recent years and especially of the last few
months leads me to believe further that it would be wise for the
College to erect additional halls of residence for young women.
Oberlin needs another hall like Talcott Hall and another like Lord
Cottage. It has seemed to me that there has been an unreasonable
and undesirable increase in the rates charged at the private board-
ing houses in the village. This increase has come about largely be-
cause the College does not accommodate in its own halls a sufficiently
large proportion of the young women of the institution to really
control the rates charged throughout the village. The rate charged
at the present time at Lord Cottage is $3.50 a week and at Talcott
Hall the rates range from $4.25 to $4.65 a week. These figures in-
clude room, board, heat and light. If Oberlin has a call to provide
accommodations for any class of young women, it is for
those in moderate circumstances who can afford to pay from $3.50
a week to $4.75 a week, and I hope that additional accommodations
can be provided for such young women. Good colleges at which
the prices range from $6 to $8 a week are sufficiently numer-
ous to provide for the young women of the country who can afford
to pay such rates, but it seems very desirable to have the scale of
rates maintained in Oberlin at the moderate level where they have
been for so many years.

Early in September after the greater portion of the correspond-
ence for the year had been completed, I mailed a final circular letter
to a number of hopeful cases and in the letter used the following
sentence: "It is desired that the College Department shall con-
tinue to increase until it numbers from 700 to 800 students." I prc-

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sume that I had no formal authority for saying that the College
desires a College department of 800, but as I have studied the situa-
tion, I have become convinced that a College Department of that
size can be secured in the course of a few years. If the present ad-
vertising methods are continued and somewhat increased^ a College
Department of 800 or even 1,000 can be quickly attained. If such a
large College Department is not desired by the Faculty and Trus-
tees, the Secretary can wisely give less of his attention to corre-
spondence with prospective students, or the office of Secretary can
even be abolished altogether. But if the increased numbers are de-
sired and the Trustees wish to have the work of my office continue
along the present lines, several important facts should be faced at
once:

(i) A College Department of 800 or 1,000 students would re-
quire that additional recitation rooms be secured either in a new
college recitation building or by the enlargement of Peters Hall.

(2) Such a College Department would necessitate added ex-
penses for salaries of instructors. Already in many of the classes.
as in the subjects of languages, mathematics, and history, where the
recitation method is employed, there are often from thirty-five to
sixty students in a class. If the Faculty and Trustees desire a larger
number of students, there should be a willingness to provide suffi-
cient teachers to enable all instruction, except, perhaps, in lecture
courses, to be given in sections of thirty-five or less.

(3) Provision should be made for a hall which shall be the
center of the social life of the men. Such a building might wisely
contain a dining hall to accommodate three hundred or more men,
to be conducted like Randall Hall at Cambridge. There might also
be provided in the same building attractive dormitory accommoda-
tions for a considerable number of men. Many Oberlin students
who have taken graduate courses in eastern universities after leaving
Oberlin have told me that in their judgment Oberlin's greatest need
is for a better opportunity for the men to become acquainted with
the other men of the institution. The opportunities for acquaintance
between the young men and the young women are sufficient, but it
is certainly true that the young men do not have adequate oppor-
tunities for becoming well acquainted with each other. A large
building containing attractive parlors, committee rooms, game
rooms, and rooms for Y. M. C. A. purposes, and also containing
adequate dining facilities and sleeping apartments as above suggested,
WOfild greatly aid in meeting this need. So far as the good of the

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College is concerned I place this need ahead of that of a new chapel,
a new Science building, and even of a new administration building.

The statistics which follow cover the points usually treated in
my report.

OFFICERS AND TEACHERS.

The officers of instruction and government for the College year
of 1902-03 were as follows:

Professors 33

Emeritus Professor i

Associate Professors 3

Instructors 23

Tutors, Teachers, and Laboratory Assistants 17

Librarians and Library Assistants 5

Gymnasium Directors and Assistants 4

Administrative 'Officers and Clerks 10

Total 96

This does not include non-resident lecturers. The total is the
same as last year.

DEGREES CONFERRED.

The following degrees were conferred during the year 1902-03:

In Course: Men. Women. Total.

A.M 2 3 5

A.B 45 57 i<a

D.B 9 o 9

56 60 116
Upon Completion of Prescribed Work:

A.M 2 2 4

A.B I I a

336
Honorary:

Mus. D I o I

Mus. M o I I

In addition to the preceding, eight diplomas were granted to
graduates of the Conservatory of Music, two to graduates from the
31avic Department of the Theological Seminary, and seven to gra4y*

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ates of the Normal Course in Physical Training for Women. Six
of the seven graduates from the Physical Training Course received
at the same time the A.B. degree for the completion of work in the
College. The other graduate from the Physical Training Course
already held the degree of A.B. from Mount Holyoke College.

The aggregate of all degrees and diplomas was 141. The corre-
sponding number for 1899-1900 was 122, for 1900-01 was 100, for 1901-
02 was 102.

GENERAL ENROLLMENT IQQ2-O3.

The enrollment of students for the College year of 1902-03, as pub-
lished in the final edition of the Catalogue last June, reached a total
of 1509. In this total were counted all students who had been in
attendance at any time during the year. In the Summer School of
1902 there were enrolled 23 students whose names were not found
elsewhere in the year's enrollment, and they were included in the
above total. The following table shows the number of students in
each department, with the corresponding figures for the three pre-
ceding years:

The College

The Seminary

The Academy

The Conservat*y of Music
Drawing and Painting...

The Summer School

♦Phys'l Tra'g for Wom'n

1901-02

S
242

35
13^

4
II

[-]

357
o

134

413
46
16

[-]

499
35

270

501
50
37

[-]

1900-01

d
«>

197

190

[-]

231
2

148
388

34
22

yg 516 866 1382 532 825 1357 524 799 1323

428
4Q

338

467
38
37

1889-1900

190

198

227
2

139
382

417
40

337

456

* It U to be noted that since li^X) the stadents in the coorse in Physical Traininflr for
Women ha^e been included in the totals for the College Department.

Of the 1509 Students enrolled last year, 1468 came from 41 states
and territories in the United States and 41 came from 11 foreign
countries. The state of Ohio furnished 756 students, slightly more
than 50 per cent, of the whole number. The other states which sent
the largest number of students were as follows: Illinois, 130; New
York, 77; Iowa, 76; Pennsylvania, 75; Michigan, 61; Indiana, 49.

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The variation in enrollment during the last decade may be seen
at a glance by reference to the chart printed below. The minimum
was reached in the year 1898-99, when the total was 1,208.

THB ENROLLMJINT IN OBBRUN COLLEGE FOR THE LAST TWELVE YEARS.

I69I ie«e

l»9e I699

1695
1894

1095 1696

1996

1997 099

1999 1900

001

1902

1905

1997

1999 899

1900 1901

1902

1903

1904

1900

MOO

1800

«00

1100

The number of students in the institution during the year 1902-03
was larger than for any previous year in the history of the College,
with the exception of 1892-93. During that year the enrollment
reached a total of 1,492, without counting any summer school
students, as compared to i486, omitting Summer School students,
last year.

The College

The Seminary

The Academy

The Conservatory of Music . .

Drawing and Painting

♦Physical Training for Women

1902-03

1892-93

578

394

330

550

530

450

[25]

—

* Now included in the total for the College Department.

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stuDEirrs i^OM oHio.

The proportion of Oberlin students who come from the state of
Ohio has remained very nearly constant for the last seven years:

Year. TotaL

1896-97 1283

l897-<^ 1310

1898-99 1208

1899-1900 1323

1900-01 1357

1901-02 13&2

1902-93 1509

ToUl

Per Crat.

from Ohio.

64s

so"/.-

680

SiVm.

6Q3

49"/».

6S9

49"/-.

682

Scf/m

689

49'U

756

S0"/».

THE NUMBER OF MEN IN OBERUN.

The relative number of men in the entire institution has suflfered
another loss, as shown in the following table:

Entire Institution —

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-01

1901-02

1902-03

imberof
Men.

Totol
EnroUment.

477
524

1203
1323

532
526
556

1357
1382
1509

Percentage.

39-/«o
39V,-
39"/wo

36"/wo

In the College Department the relative number of men has
greatly increased during the last five years, although there is a de-
crease for 1902-03 as compared with the preceding year.

College Department —

Number of

Tear. Men.

1898-99 179

1899-1900 190

1900-01 197

1901-02 242

1902-03 267

Total

Enrollment.

Peroentage.

419

42"/«

417

45"/«.

428

46V«

499

48"/«.

578

46'V«

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in this connection it is of interest to compare the number o^ men
in Oberlin during the year 1902-03 with the corresponding number for
1892-93.

The College

The Seminary

The Academy

The Conservatory of Music
•Drawing and Painting ...
The Summer School

^Bzcladinc those enrolled elsewhere.

ENKOLLMENT FIGURES — FALL 1903.

While this report is supposed to cover the college year of 1902-03, it
has seemed best to present also a statement of the enrollment for the Fall
term of the present year, corrected to the date of issue of this report
[November 7, 1903]. To the figures for this year have been added the
corresponding statistics for the last six years.

The College-
Post-graduate

Seniors

Juniors

Sophomores

Freshmen

College Specials

The Seminary

The Academy /

The Conservatory of Music

Drawing and Painting

* Physical Training for Women.

13
103
102

5
67
83

7
79
67

86
76

139

220
40

139
174
42

117

163

97
142

127

118
24

621

573

476

421

397

402

35
279
456

II
[-]

285

395

[-]

30
242
386

43
285
353

34
289

351

286

293

1402

1 301

1172

1 129

1 104

1044

87
63
8q
126
27

418

52
362

314

»3

1 167

* Since 1900 the students in the coarse of Physical Training for Women hare been in-
olnded in the total of the CoUege Department

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In view of the increase in the number enrolled in the fall term, 1908,
as compared to that of the fall term of 1902, and bearing in mind that last
year's total enrollment was within 6 of the largest in the history of the
institution, it seems entirely safe to state that the year upon which we
have entered will establish a new enrollment record. It will be seen from
the preceding table that the fall term, 1903, shows an increase of 101 over
the fall term, 1902. On this basis, the total for the entire year of 1903-04
will probably easily reach 1,600.

It should be noted that although there is an increase of 48 in the
total enrollment in the college department this fall, there is an increase of
only 5 men, as compared to an increase of 43 women.

NUMBER OF COLORED STUDENTS IN OBIRUN.

The Commissioner of Education, at Washington, requires a report
each year of the number of colored students in the institution. The fol-
lowing report covers the year 1902-03:

Men. Women. TotaL

The College 10 8 18

The Academy 8 13 21

The Theological Seminary 10 1

The Conservatory 2 11 13

Drawing and Painting 1 0 1

22 32 53

Colored students formed Syi per cent of the total enrollment.

AnaljTsis of College Enrollment.

1902-03.

The following table shows the number of students who studied in the
College Department in former years, as well as those who entered the
College Department for the first time:

Men. Women. Total., ^erc.

In College Department, last year 156

In College Department, in former years 11

In Academy Department, last year 31

In Academy Department^ in former years. . . i . . 2

In Theological Seminary Department, last year. 1

In Conservatory Department, last year 9

New Students, never before enrolled in Oberlin. 66

267
87

of Whole

No.

.63

319

55.2

4.8

11.6

158

27.4

111

578

100.

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From the preceding table it' will be seen that 231 students, represent-
ing 40 per cent, of the total enrollment, were new students in the College
department, while 60 per cent, of the students had studied in the College
either during the preceding year or previously. The percentages shown
above do not vary appreciably from the corresponding figures for 1901-02.

From the above table it appears that 156 men and 163 women who had
been in the College department during the year 1901-02 returned for the
year 1902-03. The report for 1901-02 shows that the total enrollment in
the College department for that year was 242 men and 256 women. Of this
number 40 men and 40 women completed the courses required for gradua-
tion. From this it appears that 46 men and 53 women who were enrolled
in the College department in 1901-02 did not return to complete their college
work. There are losses of this character in every college, but the net loss
of 99 students out of a possible total of 418 seems to me to be so large as
to be worthy of serious consideration. I do not believe that this loss of
23 6-10 per cent, is larger than has been experienced in Oberlin College in
former years. It may not be even as large as former losses, but it is larger
than is desirable. It seems to me to be worth our while to find out what
the most important reasons are for the failure of our students to return to
complete our courses. From my experience in this office during the laat
five years, I should say that the two reasons most commonly given for the
failure of our students to return are (1) the desire to take technical courses
not offered in Oberlin, and (2) the inability of the students to meet the ex-
penses necessary for college work. To these two may be added a third
reason, a reason which seems to me to grow more in weight each year, viz. :
dissatisfaction with the inadequate social life of the men of this institution.
It should be added that many of those who drop their college work because
of lack of money find it possible later to resume their college work here.
Twenty-eight students returned during the year 1902-03 who had previously
studied in the College department and had dropped out for one reason or
another.

It is my plan to write to all students who were enrolled in the College
department during the year 1902-03 who have not returned this fall, asking
for statements of the reasons which have influenced them. The answers
to these inquiries will be tabulated, and the results will be presented to the
Trustees in my next report.

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Classification of New Students.

The 231 new students who were admitted to the College department

were classed as follows :

Men. Women. Total.

• Admitted as Post-graduates Oil

" Seniors 4 2 6

" Juniors 3 6 9

" " Sophomores 6 8 14

"Freshmen 78 90 168

" Specials 9 24 33

100 131 231

In a<kiition to the 168 new Freshmen shown in the preceding table,
there were 8 others whose names were listed in the Freshman Class, who
were Freshmen the year before, and failed to advance to the Sophomore
Class. The total number of all Freshmen as shown in the catalogue was

176.

Thirty new students were admitted to higher rank than that of Fresh-
man. Twenty-three of these came from the following colleges and uni-
versities :

Albany Normal School, N. Y.

Berea College, Ky.

Bethel College, Kans.

Butler University, Ind.

Carleton College, Minn.

Central College, Ind.

Denison University, Ohio.

Findlay College, Ohio.

Geneseo Collegiate Institute, 111.

Indiana University, Ind.

Mount Holyoke College, Mass.

Ohio State University, Ohio.

Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio.

Pomona College, Cal.

Syracuse University, N. Y.

Union Christian College, Ind.

University of Chicago, 111.

University of Michigan, Mich.

Western Reserve College for Women, Ohio.

Westminster College, Pa.

Wittenberg College, Ohio.

Yankton College, S. D.

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Three students who were enrolled the previous year in Oberlin Acad-
emy were able to enter as Sophomores. It frequently happens that students
who do not present credits enough to secure the Freshman classification
are ranked as Academy students with advanced credits, and by doing extra
work for a year are able the next year to secure the classification of
Sophomores with conditions. Especially is this possible where the student
remains in Oberlin for work in the Oberlin Summer School

One student, from the Rayen High School, of Youngstown, was ad-
mitted to the rank of Sophomore by reason of an extra amount of pre-
paratory work done in a five-year high school course.

Two students who had studied in Oberlin Academy in former years
were able to secure advanced rank because of further study in normal
schools. One man secured rank as a Junior who had completed the course
in the Oberlin Theological Seminary.

The New Requirements for Admission to ^e College Department.

With reference to the new requirements for admission to the College
Department which took effect in the fall of 1901, the experience of another
year confirms the belief that these requirements are working satisfactorily.

There were 231 new students admitted to the College Department dur-
ing the year 1902-03. Of this number 30 were admitted to advanced stand-
ing, leaving 201 who received classification as Freshmen or College Specials.

Owing to the loss of admission papers in the Chapel fire, I have not
been able to study the entrance credits of tiie 33 students admitted as
"Special students," nor of 4 of the students admitted as Freshmen who
were enrolled in the College for only a portion of the fall semester. I
have carefully examined the credits of the remaining 164 new students who
were admitted to the classification of Freshmen in September, 1902. It
has not seemed wise, however, to present the results of this study in as
much detail as was given in the report for last year. Some of the items
which are presented in the following paragraphs may be worthy of note.
Amount of Entrance Credits of the Freshmen.

The table of percentages which folkxws shows roughly, (1) students
who were conditioned at entrance, (2) the students who exactly met the
admission requirements, and (3) the students who entered with more
than 16 units of credit A "unit" of work for entrance comprises four
recitation hours a week for one year, and five periods of forty-five minutes
each will be accepted as an equivalent.

19024B 1901^

57 students presented between 14 and 15 units. .. .34.7% 32.3%

28 " " 15 units 17.1" ia4«

38 " « between 15 and 16 units. . . .23.2 " 17.9 "

41^ " " more than 16 units 25. " 31.4 "

164 100 100

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Subjects l^esented by I^reshmen.

History. Only four students failed to meet the minimum requirement
of one unit in the subject of history. Such students are required to elect
work in history in the College to make up the deficiency. Forty-four stu-
dents presented the minimum, one unit, and the remaining 116 students pre-
sented more than one unit. Of these 11 presented three units.

Mathematics, The full requirement of three units was presented by 130
out of 164 candidates. Of the 34 students who were admitted with condi-
tions in mathematics, 26 were conditioned a half unit in either Algebra or
Geometry, and 8 were conditioned a full unit in these subjects. Conditions
in mathematics are made up by enrollment in classes in Oberlin Academy.
Of the 55 students who entered the College from Oberlin Academy, 22 had
anticipated the subject of Freshman mathematics by electing it while en-
rolled in the Academy department.

Latin. The minimum requirement is two units. Three students pre-
sented no Latin, and five others presented less than the minimum. Ten
students presented two units. The preference of the Committee on Ad-
mission is that students should present four units in the subject of Latin,
and 82 students (exactly 50 per cent.) presented this amount of Latin.
Where students present less than two units of Latin they are required to
elect work in Oberlin Academy to meet this minimum. Where the student
presents more than two units, but less than four units, the Commitee
urges, but does not require, the election of Academy courses in Latin.

Greek. Greek is optional and the number of applicants who present
Greek is small, being 63 out of 164, 38 2-10 per cent., a slight gain over last
year. The gain comes largely from that portion of the Freshmen who enter
from Oberlin Academy. Only 28 per cent, of the students who entered
from outside schools presented Greek.

German. German is optional. Some German was presented by 104 of
the candidates, the per cent, being 63.4 per cent

French. French is optional. It was presented by only 29 of the 164
applicants.

Science. The minimum requirement in science is one unit. It is
recommended that applicants present at least one science course which has
covered a complete year, submitting satisfactory laboratory books, but we
still allow credit for term courses and half-year courses. All of the candi-
dates presented some work in Science, although there were four who did
not present as much as one unit. These students are required to elect
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the entrance deficiency. There were 28 students who presented the mini-
mum of one unit. Two units were presented by 38 students. The whole
amount of Science presented for admission is increasing and the quality of
the work is better each year.

English. More than 93 per cent of the applicants, 153 out of 164, met
the full requirement for three units in the subject of English. Of this
number nine students received credits slightly in excess of three units, in
consideration of unusually good preparatory work in which the study of
English covered four full years. Eight applicants were admitted with one-
half unit of deficiency, and three received conditions of a full unit.

The Committee on Admission.

The Committee on Admission has been somewhat perplexed with ref-
erence to credits due to students whose work has seemed to aggregate
more than the requirement of 15 units. In many cases additional subjects
have been carried by high school students and the certificates have seemed
to merit considerable extra credit. There is the opposing consideration,
however, that by increasing the number of subjects carried in the high
school the student probably diminished the amount of worthy work in each
subject. In the case of one student who enrolled in Oberlin in the fall of
1901, the certificate seemed to justify credits aggregating 18^ units, suflfi-
cient to give the applicant classification as a Sophomore. The work of
this particular student has not been such as to confirm the Committee in
the wisdom of its action. It seemed wise therefore to pass the following
vote, that "from and after September, 1903, not more than 16 units of ad-
mission credits will be granted to any student whose high school work has
covered only four years in time." If the student has taken a fifth or post-
graduate year in the high school, this rule will not prevent the Committee
from granting such additional credits as are due. There is also this under-
standing with reference to the new rule, that if the student thinks more
credit should be allowed than 16 units he has the privilege of taking ex-
aminations for extra credits. Under the new rule, the excess of one unit
is credited as equivalent to six semester hours of College credit, thereby
giving the student a slight margin after coming into the College depart-
ment, but not present^ing to him so much College credit as to cause him
to try to graduate in three years or in three years and a half.

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The Freshman Electives.

Beginning with the year 1901-02 a new vote went into effect con-
cerning the work of the Freshman year. Mathematics, English Composi-
tion, and Bible, aggregating 7 hours, were continued as absolute require-
ments, and the remainder of the work was to be chosen from a limited
group of subjects known as Freshman electives. The Freshmen were asked
to elect two of the following subjects—Greek, Latin, German, French^ atid
Biological Science. The science could be either Zoology or Botany. No
student was allowed to elect both beginning German and beginning French.

The results of the elections of 152 of the Freshmen, during the first
semester of 1902-03, are shown in the following table, to which are also
added for reference the elections of 149 students last year:

1902-08.

1901-02.

Freshmen Latin and beflrinnincr German

4
14

3
4
13
5
5
3
3

2
O
0

I
II

3
13

5
4

" advanced "

" " beginning French

" " advanced "

" " beginning Greek

advanced "

Science

Academv Latin and becrinninfir German

" " advanced "

" " befirinnincT French

advanced "

advanced Greek

Science

Advanced Greek and beginning German

" advanced "

I
6

" " befirinnincr French

" . advanced "

Advanced German and befifinninfir French

" " advanced "

Science

** " befifinnine Greek

Beginning German and advanced French

Science

" French and Science

Advanced " "

Beginning Greek and Science

IrreflTuIar. not considered in this studv

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It will be seen Uiat 102 students elected Latin, 67 per cent./ as oooar
pared to 62 per cent last year.

The least desirable combinations in the above table are those which
combine beginning courses in German, French, and Greek, with electives in
Science — least desirable because they invx>lve dropping the language or
languages which the student presented for admission credits. The recom-
mendation of the College officers is uniformly for the continuance in Col-
lege of subjects presented for entrance. There were 15 students who
elected these least desirable combinations, but seven of this number pre-
sented only one language (Latin) for admission, and dropped it to take up
modern language work.

Ninety-two students presented two languages for entrance. Of this
number, 42 elected the same languages; 31 droi^ed one of the original
languages to take up a third ; 14 dropped one of the languages to take work
in Sciences; and 5 dropped both languages, electing in their place a third
language and a course in Science. Thirty-four students presented three
languages, and of this number 23 continued two of them ; 7 continued one
of the languages and elected Science; 2 continued one of the languages
and elected the fourth language; and three droppd all three languages
presented for entrance and elected the fourth language and Science.

Two students presented four languages for admission to the College,
and elected two of them in the Freshman year.

Statistics of Instmctioa in the College Department, Year of 1903-03.

As used in the following table, an "Instruction Unit" means the in-
struction furnished to one student in which recitations are held once a
week for one semester — ^in other woirds, an "Instruction Unit" repre-
sents one student in a one-hour course for one semester. To illus-
trate— a five-hour course in Political Economy enrolling 55 students is
here counted as representing 275 instruction units; a three-hour course in
Surveying, enrolling 10 students, represents 30 instruction units. The table
which follows shows the instruction furnished during the year 1902-03, and
I have added for comparison the corresponding figures for the three pre-
ceding years.

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Departments.

Anatomy..

Astronomy

Bible, Theol. and Evidences..

Bibliography ,

Botany

Chemistry and Mineralog:y

Classical Archaeology

Economics and Sociology ..

English Composition...

English Literature

French

Geology...

German.

Greek

History

Italian..

Latin

Mathematics...

Oratory

Philosophy and Pedagogy

Physical Training (for credit)

Physics... •.

Physiology

Spanish

Zoology....

Totals 211 735

Students.

4
II

155
9

149

177

374

i6o

157

255

125

297

97
200
148

44
8
6

216

99
62

70
475
409
230

29
223

308

297

193

25
203

175
4

17
3

371

248

247

849

569

328

380

126

563

422

490

122

403

323

177

2679 3267 5946 161 77 141 14 11961 10996

24
48
679
14
187
960
179
650
848

1241
902
178

1082
477

1419
o

1058

1715
432

1042

335

130

514

338

381

533
290
621
691
934
839
160
880

573

1242

1 105

1393

305

984

327
o
o

227

116

589

383
413
323

795
1172

733
103

791

705

587

lOII

1171
295
979
o
250
272

17
291

The column marked "number of teaching hours" includes all the time
spent by the teachers, whether in class room recitations or in laboratory
instruction.

In the two semesters of 1902-03, there were 211 classes. The total
enrollment of students in these classes was 5,d46, the average being slightly
more than 28. The corresponding figure for 1901-02 was 25.

A gain of nearly 15 per cent in the total amount of instruction fur-
nished by the College was to be expected, corresponding to the gain of that
amount in the enrollment of the College department. In some departments,
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above mentioned. The greatest increases in the amount of instruction fur-
nished were as follows :

English Composition 46 per cent.

Philosophy and Pedagogy 29 "

Chemistry and Mineralogy 26 "

Physics 25

Latin 20

Zoology 16

English Literature 15

The amount of instruction furnished in Economics and Sociology, Ger-
man, Bible and Theology, History, and Mathematics showed slight gains
over last year. There were slight losses in Botany, French, Geology, and
Greek, and tfecided losses in Classical Archaeology and in Oratory.

In comparison with the corresponding figures of three years ago (1899-
1900) there are the following striking increases in the amount of instruc-
tion furnished:

In Chemistry and Mineralogy, a gain of 193 per cent.

In History, a gain of 177

In English Composition and Literature, a gain of 128

In Zoology, a gain of 105

In Physics, a gain of 67

In Mathematics, a gain of 54

In German, a gain of 53

The gain in enrollment of students in the College department during
the same period of three years was 38 6-10 per cent.

Instruction Given in Oberlin Academy, Year 1902-03.

The instruction furnished in Oberlin Academy during the year 1902-03
is shown in the table which follows. The Academy is still on the term plan
and the table is figured accordingly. An Academy instruction unit means
the instruction furnished to one student in a one-hour course for one term.
It represents two-thirds of a College instruction unit.

The total number of different classes taught in the Academy during the
year was 149, and the enrollment in them was 3,407, an average of 23 to
each clas^.

There was a large increase in English, Latin, Mathematics, and Physics,

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There was a slight decrease in German and History, and a considerable
decrease in Greek.

III
III

StndentB.

Women.

Men.

Bible.,

English ,

French

German

Greek

History ,

Latin

Mathematics ,

Oratory

Science (Physics).

Totals

112

145

102

317
395
36
"5
no

321

345

256

393
140
149
47
51
309
213

27
40

573
788
176
264
157

84
630
558

58
119

573

3022

840

1320

785

336

3040

2012

116

476

570
2309

545
1460
1045

376
2520
1380

184

149 607

1782

1625

3407

12520

10480

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE M. JONES.

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Report of the Librarian.

To the President:

Sir: I hereby submit the report from the library for the year
1902-03.

GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY.

At the beginning of the year the library possessed 54,785 bound
volumes and 33378 unbound volumes, a total of 88,663. During the
year 3^33 bound volumes were accessioned, and 1,292 unbound vol-
umes were catalogued without accessioning, making the total Septem-
ber I, 1903, 58,618 bound volumes, and 35,170 unbound volumes, a total
of 93.788.

While the number of bound volumes added is somewhat less than
the average for the past three years, it is above the number which
had been added in any year previous to that time. The following
table shows the addition of bound volumes by college years since

1893-94 3,752 1898-99 M43

1894-95 2,593 1899-1900 4,002

1895-96 2,083 1900-01 4,689

1896-97 1.924 1901-02 5,391

1897-98 2;3I3 1902-03 3,833

Besides the accessioned and catalog^ued volumes and pamphlets given
above, the library has many collections not yet entered on our rec-
ords, or in any way catalogued. To get a more complete statement
of the extent of the collections possessed by the library, the following
table is given:

CONDITION OP THE LIBRARY SEPTEMBER I, I9O3.

Bound Unbound
Volumes. Volumes. TotaL

Accessioned and catalogued 58,618 35*170 93,788

Waiting, not yet accessioned or catalogued. . 1,750 18,000 19,750

Volumes of newspapers, temporary bindings 1,200 1,209

Maps and charts 2,500 2,500

Total 60,368 56370 117,238

Even this considerable total of 117,238 does not indicate the
sum of the individual items which the library possesses, for there

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are coins, medals, paper money, broadsides, photographs, manuscripts,
and the like, which have never been counted, together with a collec-
tion of more than 25,000 duplicate volumes, pamphlets, periodicals
and newspapers. Probably more than 150,000 individual articles are
in charge of the library sta£F.

ADDITIONS OP THE YBAB.

The 3,833 volumes added during the year came from the following
sources :

By purchase 1,613 volumes

By gift and exchange 2,820 "

The largest and most important addition of the year, referred to
briefly in my last Annual Report, was the gift of more than i,eoo
volumes from the library of the late Professor Joseph Henry Thayer,
of Harvard Divinity School, presented in behalf of his family by Miss
Grace C. Thayer, Cambridge, Mass. This gift was one of very great
value and, because the greater part of the books were the older and
less easily obtainable works, it supplemented our library in a very
unusual way, filling out the gaps in the older literature, both in the
New Testament and in classical Greek.

From E. A. West, of Chicago, a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee of the library, came gifts of money to enable the library to
purchase the "Dictionary of National Biography" in 56 volumes and
to continue the "New International Encyclopaedia" as the volumes
appear. The limited resources of the library do not permit the addi<
tion of expensive sets from our current income. We could have pos-
sessed this set in no other way. The departments of English History
and English Literature are materially strengthened by this gift

Mr. S. C. Mastick, through Professor F. F. Jewett, presented the
library with a gift of money which enabled it to purchase a set of
"Liebigs Annalen der Chemie" from the current volume (312) as far
back as volume 187. This set, which, after having been catalogued,
was placed in the department library in the Severance Chemical
Laboratory, will greatly facilitate the work of that department.

Mr. Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., presented a sum of
money with which it was possible to purchase a complete set of the
"Quarterly Journal of Mathematics" from the beginning to date.
This gift was made through Professor Anderegg.

Mr. Irving W. Metcalf, a trustee of the College, gave $100 for the
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volumes, the eleven volumes of the "Supplement to the Ninth Edition
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica" have been purchased.

In addition to these gifts of money for the purchase of books,
there are gifts of books which should be specially mentioned. From
Miss Fanny N. Burnell^ of Milwaukee, Wis., we received a collection
of some 100 volumes on books relating to the fine arts, together with
a large and interesting collection of plates and illustrations intended
to illustrate architecture, sculpture and painting. This gift, with a
portrait of her father, Levi Burnell, which is later to be sent, she
wishes kept as a memorial of her father who for many years was the
treasurer of the College.

Mrs. Emma F. Burroughs gave us another large selection from
the library of the late Professor George S. Burroughs, D. D., con-
taining many valuable volumes.

Other donors who should be specially mentioned are: Dr. Wil-
liam C. Bunce, who presented a large number of medical works and
periodicals. Dr. L. B. Sperry, Mrs. P. A. Crafts, and the heirs of
Dr. Dudley Allen.

Among the additions for the year are a large number of vol-
umes, chiefly periodicals, which have been secured by exchanging
duplicates with other libraries. Among the libraries with which
exchanges have thus been made should be mentioned the

Rhode Island Historical Society,

Library of Congress,

United States Documents Office,

Libraries of Bowdoin College, Colgate University, the University
of Wooster, Auburn Theological Seminary,

Massachusetts State Library.

Through the gifts of the past year and through these exchanges
very valuable additions to the library in the literature of a past
generation have been secured. The gifts of money for the purchase of
books of current importance have done much to provide some of the
more extended sets in which the library is deficient. The appropria-
tion by the trustees of $i,oop to be distributed among the depart-
ments having most crying demands was distributed by the library
Committee among the various departments in sums ranging from
$25.00 to $250.00 for a department. The expenditure of this money
has brought relief from some of the most pressing demands, but it is
evident that no temporary appropriation will at all meet the needs
which are felt on every hand. I trust that the appropriation of $1,000,
which has been made for a second year, will become a permanent

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appropriation and that, if the finances of the College will warrant it,
the appropriation may be made $2,000 for the coming year. Books
arc the sources from which not only the wants of the classes are to be
supplied, but in which also the professors find the material for their
own investigation. In order to meet this latter need, a much greater
expenditure is necessary.

As I said in my last report we can not be thought to be doing
even the minimum which will meet the requirements of the class
work until there is available at least $50 a year for every department
of instruction in the College and in the Seminary. To reach this
minimum would require an appropriation by the trustees of at least
$2,000 annually in addition to the income from the Library Endow-
ment. I trust that it will soon be possible for this sum to be appro-
priated and that in order to meet the needs of the teaching force the
maximum amount named in my report, namely, $5,000, can be appro-
priated before many years.

WORK OF THE YEAR.

During the year the library was open 305 days. The average daily
attendance during the school year was about 350; during the summer
school, about 60. The total number of readers for the year was 81,486.
The number of books drawn for home use was 16,156. The total num-
bers of persons drawing books for home use during the year was
1,081.

The cataloguing department catalogued 5,815 volumes and 1,294
pamphlets. This required the preparation of 12,440 new cards. In
addition, 2,121 cards' were temporarily withdrawn from the catalogue
in order to have additions entered on the card. The work of the
Library Club led to the revision of the headings of many cards, 974
being withdrawn from the catalogue for such revision. The demands
made upon the library staff are continually increasing and there is
need of more money for administration. The sums now available for
this purpose will permit little, if any, enlargement. I trust that it
may be possible another year to carry out the plan suggested by me
last year to the Advisory Committee of the Trustees and appoint a
competent reference librarian. Now that the library is open during
the evening hours, as well as through the day, it is manifestly im-
possible for the librarian to do all the work which should be done
in helping students. The demands of administration and the demands
outside the library upon his time are too great to make it possible.

Although not strictly coming into this report I am glad to say
that, beginning with the current school year, the library is open in the

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evening from 6 to 9:30. It is as yet too early to tell the use which
will be made of the library, but already it is apparent that the open-
ing of the library in the evening is extremely convenient for many
students. From 80 to 100 persons can be reg^ularly expected each
evening and, as the experiment progresses, there will, no doubt, be
many more who will make use of the library during the evening
hours.

MORE ROOM REQUIRED.

I have spoken at length in previous reports concerning the
crowded condition of the library. It has not seemed possible to add
any shelving during the year just past, and our shelves, already ex-
ceedingly full, have been brought into a very congested condition by
the attempt to incorporate the additions of the year. All the dupli-
cates of the library have now been removed from the building and
it will be necessary during the present year to begin the removal
of books from our regular collections and to store them in some less
accessible building outside. Of course in a library of our size many
volumes and sets can be removed for which there is very unfrequent
call. They should, however, be housed in some building where there
is little danger of fire and there does not appear to be any such
building available. Should no relief come through efforts which have
been made by the President to secure relief from this situation, I
hope the trustees will seriously consider the suggestion in my last
report as to the advisability of constructing a fire-proof stack at the
north side of the present library building. Such a stack would give
great relief to both Professor Wright and myself and would make it
possible to continue the use of the present building with comparative
satisfaction.

THE LIBRARY CLUB.

The Library Club, as explained in previous reports, includes all
the members of the staff and meets for an hour each week. The work
of the year has been largely the revision of the card catalogue. We
have been giving especial attention during the year to the revision
of the author entries for State Documents and have been endeavoring
to introduce the inverted headings which have been approved by the
catalogue section of the American Library Association. For some
two years we have been trying the inverted headings in the entries
for United States documents and have now introduced them for many
of the leading states. The opinion of the staff as to their use is some-
what divided and so far it appears that about as many problems, both
to the library staff and to the user, have arisen when the new heading

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has been used as under the old system. We shall, however, accept
the decision reached by the catalogue section of the American Library
Association and adjust ourselves to it.

The advisability of using the printed cards now prepared by the
Library of Congress has also been discussed by the Club. Inasmuch
as our catalogue, now containing some 350,000 cards, has been made
upon the 32 or index size of card, while the Library of Congress cards
are printed only in the 33 or postal size, the adoption of these cards
would compel us to trim down the Library of Congress cards to the 32
size before adding, or necessitate the reconstruction of our catalogue
in the 33 size. Experiments in cutting down the Library of Congress
cards to our size have shown that in very many cases some important
bibliographical detail would be lost. On the whole it has seemed
wisest to us to continue as we are until such time as the resources
of the College will justify re-cataloguing on the 33 size. Inasmuch as
the Library of Congress expects to be prepared to furnish at any time
any card which it has ever printed, the matter can be taken up in
later years and successfully carried through to completion.

Owing to the crowded condition of the library our work is car-
ried on under increasing difficulties and is in many respects unsatis-
factory to us. Relief is urgently needed, either in the form of an
addition to the present building, or, if it can be brought about, through
the erection of a library building more commodious and more adapted
to the demands which are now made upon the library.

Respectfully submitted,

AZARIAH S. ROOT, Librarian.

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Report of the Dean of the Women's
Department.

To the President:

Sir: I have the honor to submit a report on the Women's De-
partment for the Academic year 1902-03.

The statistics for the year show the following enrollment :

College 311

Academy 155

Conservatory 462

Art II

Summer School 14

Total 953

The increase in numbers, especially at the beginning of the pres-
ent year, has made the need of additional dormitories more imper-
ative than ever before. Practically all the rentable houses in town,
which are large enough to be run profitably as private boarding
houses, have been taken for that purpose. Several competent matrons,
who desired to open new boarding homes this fall and so help
meet our pressing needs, could find no buildings available in town.
The first result of this extra demand has been overcrowding. In-
spection is already revealing a state of affairs for which our only
remedy, since we have no adequate accommodations to offer in ex-
change, must soon be a refusal to receive students for whom we cannot
properly care. The law of supply and demand has also brought
as a second result, a decided increase in prices. In some instances,
our women are paying first class prices for second class accommodations.

To state the problem yet more concretely — there are enrolled here
in Oberlin as large a number as in most of the great women's
colleges. If we exclude from consideration all who live with their
parents, and all day students from out of town, there still remain
more than six hundred women to be provided with boarding places
which are supposed to be under college supervision. Only one-fourth
of these six hundred can be accommodated in our own College dor-
mitories, while three-fourths must live under conditions which we can only
partially control, and which, in some instances, tend to defeat the very
ends of the education they come here to secure.

In view of these pressing needs, may I ask that some plan be

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formed for soliciting the investment of private capital in the erection
of private dormitories, to be managed subject to College supervision,
where really superior accommodations may be secured for the
prices our women now pay. Such private dormitories have been in
successful operation for the past six years, in two of the great
women's colleges in the East, and have proved to be both acceptable to
students and profitable as business ventures. May I also urge that
some one of the large houses in town be fitted up exclusively for
Academy girls, in case the experiment, begun this year, of devoting
a small house to their needs, should prove to meet a real demand
on their part And may I further ask that the suggestion to erect a
dormitory devoted wholly to the use of Qjnservatory girls receive all pos-
sible encouragement.

The improvements made this summer at Stewart Hall are greatly
appreciated. The house has been repaired, partially refurnished, and
connected with the central heating plant. Under the competent man-
agement of our tried matron, Miss Sweezey, Stewart now affords a
delightful home for fifteen girls, at the very low price of three dollars
a week.

Two changes have occurred in the management of our college
dormitories. Miss Ella Manley, for ten years the able and much loved
head of Lord Cottage, was forced by ill health to undertake a smaller
house. Her place has been filled by Mrs. Gray, for several years the
successful matron of a town boarding house. It is a pleasure to
acknowledge, on behalf of the institution, our gratitude to Miss
Manley for her years of loyal and efficient service, and our great satis-
faction that we may still retain her among our town matrons. We
have also lost Mrs. Foote through ill health. During the two years of
her stay at Keep Home, she made an impression of self-denying devo-
tion which will last long in the lives of the girls under her care.

A very important increase has been made in the membership of the
House Government Association. After a thorough trial, the two largest
town boarding houses have been received into the association, and three
other large houses are now organized and waiting for admission. The
students of the Conservatory have also adopted a plan of organization
somewhat analogous to the House Council. Owing to the lack of
such class divisions and class officers as exist in College and Academy,
the Conservatory students have always seemed peculiarly unorgan-
ized. With the aid and advice of Mrs. Woodford, a Student Board
of sixteen members has been formed, representing as fully as pos-
sible the varied interests of the Conservatory. By this Student Board
executive and social interests are discussed and plans of work formed.

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It is hoped that its organization may prove a unifying element in the Hfe
of the G)nservatory students.

The change finally brought about last year, making Saturday our
regular recreation evening, has had a most wholesome effect upon
the social life of the institution. The choir rehearsals, which were
transferred to Friday evening, are better attended than under the old
arrangement, and the efficiency of our choirs has in no way suffered
from the change. A decided gain has been made in diminishing the
number and improving the character of social occasions. Many of the
short social affairs, formerly characterized by haste and confu^
sion, have disappeared because students prefer to put their efforts
into gatherings for which they may have the whole evening. The
results seem to promise better management of details and a growing
sense for social forms.

In accordance with the faculty vote to open the library till nine-
thirty, college women of the senior and junior classes have been
granted evening reading privileges in the library. This permission is
also given, in special cases, to college women of the two lower classes.

The health record for the past year has been exceptionally good.
We have been peculiarly free from epidemics of any sort and there
have been few cases of serious illness. Yet one case of smallpox,
in a house where three of our women were boarding, forced home
upon us our lack of any provision for isolating contagious diseases.
The most serious cases of ill health have been in the form of nervous
break-down among women who are carrying, in addition to their
regular work, the heavy burden of entire or partial self-support. To
the increase of tuition, made a few years ago, has been added an
increase in the price of living which is, on the whole, greater for our
women than for the men. The opportunities for self-support open to
women, even in the matter of domestic service, are far fewer than those
open to men. The cases are compara^tively few where the com-
mittee on beneficiary aid can give help in really adequate amounts.
Education is thus becoming more and more difficult for our poorer
students who are often among the brightest women in college. May
I urge once more upon your attention the plan proposed in my last
report, viz., that honorary scholarships be established sufficient in
value to cover both board and tuition; that these scholarships be
awarded at the end of the junior year to self supporting women who
have sustained high rank during their college course; and that the
holders of these scholarships receive, in recognition of the excel-
lence of their college work, the title of Oberlin Scholar.

Respectfully submitted, ALICE H. LUCE.

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Report of the Director of the Men's
Gymnasium.

To the President :

Sir: The receipts and expenditures of the gymnasium for 1902-03,
the first full year in the new quarters, were as follows :

RECEIPTS.

From term bills of men in the College, AcademV» and Con-
servatory $819.25

From other fees 217.00

From rental 30-<»

From interest on endowment ($SiOOo) 225.00

Miscellaneous i .25

$1,292.50

EXPENDITURES.

Teaching (Director's salary not included) $973-76

Clerk hire 31 -40

Stationery and printing 30-39

Janitor 350.00

Custodian 92.65

Fuel 394.47

Lights 253-35

Water 195-45

Supplies and repairs 175.84

Insurance 38.98

Care of grounds 66.26

Miscellaneous 111.25

Estimated. Actaal.

Expenditures, 1902-03 $2,190.00 $2,713.80

Income, " 1,190.00 1,292.50

$2,713.80

Drawn from University funds $1,000.00 $1421.30

The excess of actual over estimated expenses was due chiefly to
an unforseen but necessary increase in the items of fuel, lights, water,
care of grounds, supplies and repairs, and miscellaneous. The budget
for the current year allows an expenditure of $2,925, with an estimated
income of $1,240.

The men who made use of the gymnasium in 1902-03 were dis-
tributed as follows:

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Total No.
Nottak- nting No. of
— , ^ .. In crodit In other ing class* gymna- names in

Ine College — courses, classes, work. slum, catalog.

Graduates .. i .. i 6

Seniors 14 4 23 41 44

Juniors 17 11 22 50 55

Sophomores 20 9 27 56 ^

Freshmen 32 23 19 74 81

Specials 4 4 3 11 13

Total College 87 52 94 233 267

The Theological Seminary 14 4 18 35

The Academy 3 138 18 159 175

The Conservatory of Music . . . . 36 3 39 68

Total, all departments 90 240 119 449 545

Members of the Faculty i 7 5 13

Public schools and High Sch'l' 36 . . 36

Business College . . 18 . . 18

School of Telegraphy 4 . . 4

Citizens .. 2 2 4

Grand Totals 91 307 126 524

A comparison with the corresponding figures for 1901-02 shows that
the percentage of men in all departments who made use of the gfym-
nasium rose from 75 to 82, and in the College department the increase
was from 75 to 87 per cent. 208 new students received physical
examinations, and 37 old students were re-examined, besides the large
number of candidates for the different varsity teams who were given
partial examinations before receiving the certificate of physical fit-
ness without which no student is allowed to take part in an intercol-
legiate contest. As stated in my last report, two credit courses, an
elementary and an advanced, were offered to College students. The
first class met in two sections, at 8:30 and 2 o'clock, taught by Edwin
and Edgar Fauver; the second class was taught by the Director, at 3
o'clock. One-third of all the men in the college department were
enrolled in these courses at some time during the year, and the suc-
cess and value of the new departure seem to be already assured. The
action of the trustees last February in advancing Edwin Fauver to
the rank of Instructor in Physical Training, with a seat in the Col-
lege and General Faculties, is in line with their approval of the plan of
credit courses, and tends to raise the standard of teaching to a higher
level. Other classes, meeting daily and open to students in all depart-
ments, were organized at 10:30 a. m. and at 3, 4, 7:30 and 8:30 p. m.
They were taught by Edwin and Edgar Fauver, Earl F. Adams, and
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the Academy. Students in the Academy were required to attend
some one of these five classes at least three times a week during the
twenty weeks included between November lo and December 20, Jan-
uary 12 and March 26, April 13 and May 2.

It will be noticed that 60 per cent, of the men in all departments
were receiving systematic training in the gymnasium with greater
or less regularity. An exact statement of the numbers actively engaged
in athletics is not possible, but the following estimate may be taken as

a conservative one:

Varsity. College Classes. Academy. TotaL

Football 20 65 20 IQ5

Basket ball 10 48 30 ^

Baseball 20 48 20 88

Track athletics 35 • . 35

Besides these men, most of whom use the gymnasium without be-
ing enrolled in any class, there are others who come to play handball
in the basement, or to take individual exercise. When one adds further
the considerable number engaged in manual labor of various sorts
about the village it becomes evident that very few of our students are
without some form of physical exercise.

By various small expenditures the building has been rendered
more attractive and convenient. It will be necessary to add to the in-
door equipment from time to time, and it is hoped that by another year
a start can be made toward clearing and fitting up the open space be-
hind the gymnasium. But at present the greatest need is for something
besides bare boards on the floor of the running gallery. This is a
matter of some interest to every man, and of a great deal of interest
to many men. The customary covering of felt and canvas will cost
$340, laid in place, and the Committee on Men's Gymnasium recom-
mend that a special appropriation of that amount for a running track
be made in the next budget.

During the Easter vacation the Director gave a course of ten lec-
tures on the history and literature of physical training before the
students of the Chicago Secretarial Institute and Training School
of Young Men's Christian Associations. On April 7 and 8 he
attended the biennial convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Physical Education, in Detroit and Ann Arbor, and
read a paper on German normal schools of gymnastics before one of
the sections. The greater part of the summer vacation was devoted to
the elaboration of one of the courses given annually to students in
Oberlin College.

Respectfully submitted,

FRED EUGENE LEONARD.
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Report of the Director of the Women's

Gymnasium and of the Normal Course

in Physical Training for Women.

To the President:

Sir : The need of a gymnasium for the women as stated in my last
report is more pressing this year than last on account of the increase
in the number of students and the rapid growth of the Normal Course.

The number in attendance at the g3rmnasium for the year 1902-03
was distributed as follows:

Students electing the new courses for which one hour's credit is
given.
First Semester — Second Semester —

Freshmen 38 Freshmen ag

Sophomores 30 Sophomores 16

Juniors 12 Juniors 14

Seniors 14 Seniors I6

Specials 7 Specials 3

Total loi Total 72

College students electing Academy classes 20

Conservatory students electing the work no

Academy students of whom the work is required 113

Total for the year 368

Academy students excused on account of physical inability to
do the work 5

Academy students excused because they give at least two hours a
day to domestic work 38

This fall a number of College and Conservatory students have been
debarred because there was no more room in the classes to which
they could be admitted.

After permission was given to raise five thousand dollars ($5,000)
for a Recreation Field, several meetings were called in which the fol-
lowing guarantees were given by the women of the College :

Faculty $1,150

Seniors 500

Juniors 500

Sophomores Sao

Freshmen 500

Academy 500

Conservatory 500

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It was hoped that some individual would be found who would give
the remaining thousand with the privilege of naming the Field. Of
the sum guaranteed, one thousand dollars ($i,eoo) has been paid
into the College Treasury. Immediate use was made of seventy-four
dollars and thirty-eight-^ cents ($74.38) to enclose a much needed
basket ball court. Many of the young women, rather than solicit
money from their friends, have earned their guarantees. They pol-
ished shoes, darned stockings, sold violets, painted posters, etc.

The young women of the Senior Physical Training Class gave a
gymnasium exhibition at which some sixty dollars ($60.00) were
cleared for the Field.

In March the Director presented a paper before the American
Physical Education Association at Detroit. Miss Wickwire and the
members of the Senior Physical Training Class were also' present at
the meeting.

Miss Wickwire attended the Harvard Summer School of Physical
Training and the Director took an Art and History tour abroad dur-
ing the summer.

NORMAL COURSE IN PHYSICAL TRAINING.

The Freshman and Sophomore classes are now as large as can be
accommodated in the present gymnasium. There is every prospect
that the number in the Freshman class will exceed the limit of ten
next year. As applications for teachers are largely in excess of the
number that can be supplied, it is to be regretted that more gym-
nasium room is not available.
The number of students is as follows:

Freshmen 10

Sophomores 10

Juniors 7

Seniors 6

The courses in Applied Anatomy, Physical Examination and Diag-
nosis, Massage, Medical Gymnastics and Emergencies were given as
usual. The number in each class was seven.

A fine adult human skeleton has been added to the laboratory
material for the anatomy classes.

In June, Miss Alberta J. Cory, a former instructor in the Gymna-
sium, was here for three weeks and gave some very valuable courses
in Practical G3rmnastics.

The health of the young women in all departments of the Institu-
tion for the past year has been unusually good.

Respectfully submitted,

DELPHINE HANNA,
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Report of the Acting Dean of College Men.

To the President:

Sir: You have been yourself so closely identified with the dis-
cipline of the College and have done so much in an individual as well
as in a general way to determine the attitude and behavior of the
student body, that a report from the Acting Dean of Men seems
scarcely necessary.

In addition to the regular excusing work done by the Dean it has
been his practice to meet and counsel with all who wished to use the
office for any help soever. Many courses of study have there been
considered, many conferences on student "outside" interests, many
questions of personal conduct have been reviewed, and indeed the
office hour has so frequently been inadequate to the demands that
additional time has had to be given to interests centering there.

To one who has seen the increasing demands made upon such
an office and the splendid opportunity it affords to permanently influ-
ence the lives and character of our college men, it is particularly
gratifying that the College has seen its way to appoint a permanent
Dean of College Men with leisure to study the problems of the office
and opportunity to realize some of its possibilities.

In spite of the handicap of full teaching work and the abundant
labor incident to Debate and Oratory, the work of the office has been
in large measure very enjoyable. While I appreciate the relief which
gives me more vitality for my teaching work I shall yet miss that
close relationship with the college men which is the largest com-
pensation the office affords.

There have been during the past year no serious cases of dis-
cipline, no expulsions, and but few cases of any kind have come be-
fore the committee. I repeat what I have said in previous reports,
the men of the college seem generally disposed to maintain good
order and uphold the honor and good name of the Institution.

Respectfully submitted,

WILLIAM G. CASKEY.

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Report of the Dean of the Theological
Seminary.

To the President:

Sir: So short a time has elapsed since my appointment to the
deanship that I defer a detailed survey of the situation until another
year. Several things have been already accomplished. An office has
been established in Council Hall and the constant association with
the students which this arrangement facilitates has been of marked
value. The immediate duty of the Dean, so far as outside relation-
ships are concerned, seems to be to join other members of the
Faculty in developing a close connection between the Seminary and
the churches and between the Seminary and the Congregational
Colleges which might be expected to send regularly to this Seminary
some portion of those among their graduates who enter the ministry.
To do this requires time, but a good beginning has been made. I
have traveled since the middle of last May over twelve thousand
miles without expense to the Seminary, and have had an opportunity
to meet large bodies of college students in various parts of the
United States, and many of the Congregational ministry.

The attendance at the present time is thirty-nine, and the num-
ber will be somewhat increased before the end of the year. Of these
thirty-nine, twenty-nine are in the three regular classes, five are in
the so-called Pastor's Course, four are in the Slavic Department
and one additional student is enrolled for post-graduate work.
The entering class numbers twelve men, and is a larger class
than any that has entered since 1894-95. All of the class are col-
lege graduates (or will be by the end of the year), which was not true
in 1894-95- In the past few years the Seminary has abolished the
English Course and has begun to require college graduation as a con-
dition of entrance into the regular course. There are more college
graduates in the Seminary at the present time than there have been
before since the year 1890, when the number was slightly larger
than at present. The average number of college graduates in the
entering class during the last ten years has been about six.

Since we no longer give beneficiary aid directly to the students,
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marked excellence in scholarship, it has seemed to me essential that
we afford students an opportunity to earn a portion of their expenses
in such a way as not to interfere with, but rather contribute to, the
efficiency of their theological training. The sum of $i8o a year is
sufficient to meet all of a student's regular expenses, and our Seminary
environment affords possibilities^ for self-support of the kind just
mentioned that arc not surpassed by those of seminaries located in
large cities, although as yet we have scarcely begun to realize them.
The country districts about Oberlin need such work as students are
well able to do, and we hope to arrange with pastors in neighboring
towns and in Cleveland to have students do some work under their
supervision. Besides the twelve students who are now regularly
supplying churches in Northern Ohio there are eight sudents do-
ing religious work other than regular preaching. Two of them
are working under the direction of the pastors of the First and
Second Churches in Oberlin; two or three are, or soon will be,
doing social settlement work; and three others are holding Sunday
school and informal preaching services in country school houses on
the Sabbath. To pay these men for this work requires the raising
of |8oo or more of new money for the present year. A good portion
of this is already raised, but not all of it, and from $i,ooo to $1,500
will be needed next year if the work grows as I hope it may. Nearly
all of these men will meet once a week for the next two months for
a series of conferences upon the best way to present the gospel to
individuals, and in this way an effort will be made to have this outside
practical work make a decided contribution to the efficiency of the
theological training given here. It certainly will be of advantage
to the students to be in some vital touch with practical work during
the period of their critical study, and we shall be likely to continue the
tradition of good pastoral work and effective preaching which we have
inherited and which gives our graduates good standing in th&
churches.

The Seminary curriculum has been carefully wrought out by
the Faculty and the method of instruction is calculated to produce
thorough and reasonably independent scholarship. We have jn con-
sequence the enthusiastic support of our students.

The relations between the Seminary and the College are most cor-
dial and our students are in touch with all the varied interests of col-
lege life. This is the third year that a Seminary student has acted
as Secretary of the College Young Men's Christian Association, giv-
ing half his time to that work.

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After a longer study of the Seminary's financial situation I propose
to report from the Theological Faculty a detailed statement regarding
the whole subject and regarding the various points at which the develop-
ment of the work is desirable. The Seminary is administered with mar-
velous economy, but the falling rate of interest makes the income from
the funds set apart by the Trustees some years ago for the use of the
Seminary inadequate to our present budget, to say nothing of the
points at which the present budget should be enlarged. The most press-
ing general needs are such an increase of these funds as shall enable the
Seminary to meet its present budget, and money in the form of
scholarships the income of which may be available to remunerate
students for such practical work as I have described above. The
Seminary gratefully acknowledges the addition to its funds of a
$i,ooo scholarship contributed by the family of Mr. J. D. Fowler out
of the estate of his son, Charles E. Fowle*r, a member of the Semin-
ary class of 1902, who died suddenly soon after beginning a very
successful pastorate in Rogers, Arkansas.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD I. BOSWORTH.

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Report of the Principal of Oberlin
Academy.

To the President:

Sir : The increase in the number of students in the Academy dur-
ing the year 1902-03 was very encouraging. There was an increase of
something like 20 per cent. Another encouraging point connected
with this increase is the growth in the lower classes. For some
years these classes have 4>een exceedingly small. Both last year and
this year, however, the Junior and Junior Middle classes are very
much larger than they have been recently. If we can hold these
students through their Academy course, it will mean both increase
in numbers, and also a better chance to train students from the very
beginning of their secondary study. The latter opportunity the
teachers in the Academy very much appreciate.

The two buildings which the Academy occupies, French and
Society Halls, have been put in decidedly better shape during the last
year. They do not, however, at all satisfy the demand of the
Academy for a new building. They furnish no center for the life
of the Academy. There are no rooms which can be used for general
purposes. So far as the class-room work is concerned, however, the
recitation rooms are fairly satisfactory; they are at least a very great
improvement over the old rooms. The heating plant has not been
sufficiently tested yet to make it certain that it will keep the rooms
properly warmed; still we hope that this will be the result. A study
room has been fitted up in French Hall, where the students who
desire may find a place to go for an hour or more between classes,
thus avoiding loss of time in going to their own rooms. Teachers can
also require students who need this assistance to be in the study
room at certain hours during the day and do their work under the
supervision of the teacher in charge. A new laboratory for the use
of the classes in Botany and Zoology has been fitted up in Society
Hall, which seems likely to prove quite satisfactory, and adequate
to the present needs of these classes. Most of the other rooms have
been fitted with new and comfortable seats; there are still three
rooms, however, which will need to be seated next summer.

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The Academy courses have been somewhat enlarged along the
lines of English, Science, and History. The Academy offers a course
in elementary Botany, and one in elementary Zoology, which run
throughout the year. Three new courses have been added in Eng-
lisli, and one new course in History. With its present courses, the
Academy can justly claim that it is ready to fit students for entrance
to any college.

A special Academy boarding-house has been opened for girls. An
effort will be made to have a somewhat restricted list of houses
in which Academy boys are to find their homes. Until a new school
building and dormitories can be secured, this seems to be the
wisest plan that can be made.

The special advertising for the Academy has been continued
through the year, with fairly satisfactory results. A special Academy
catalogue will be published within a few months.

The greatest present need of the Academy seems to be to get its
advantages clearly and forcibly presented to young people who
are likely to have an opportunity to prepare for college and technical
schools, or to secure merely an elementary education.

The Principal would be glad again to call the attention of the
Trustees to the report of the Advisory Committee, in which it is sug-
gested "that some well qualified person be engaged as soon as pos-
sible to follow up the matter of advertising, correspondence, etc., in
the same manner as it is done in the College, and devote as much
time as possible to the matter of visiting high schools and township
central schools of the right grade, to talk with prospective students,
to answer requests for catalogues in person, whenever that is feasible,
and in this way promote the interests of the Academy, and of the
College at the same time. Such a man might possibly do some teach-
ing during the Fall and Winter terms, and devote all his time to
traveling during the Spring and Summer. It would not be impossible
for the right person to look after the interests of the Academy and
of the College on the same trip. The point to be emphasized is, that as
much personal visitation of parents, teachers and students as possible be
done by one man devoting all his time to it, or by a number of men de-
voting a part of their time to the work." The plan for "a number of men
to devote a part of their time to this work" does not seem to the Prin-
cipal or the teachers of the Academy a feasible one. They feel clear
that, for the present at least, the entire time and thought of one man
are demanded for this work.

Respectfully submitted,

JOHN FISHER PECK.
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Report of the Director of the Conservatory.

To the President:

Sir: The work of the Conservatory has gone on during the past
year without hindrance or marked incident, except the loss by fire
of the Chapel organ, which crippled the work in the organ department
to such an extent that it must have ceased altogether had it not been
for the courtesy of the two churches in placing their organs at our
disposal. Out of our ashes, however, is arising the largest and most
perfectly appointed organ yet possessed by us.

The new organ comes from the private residence of the late
Mr. W. S. Kimball, of Rochester, New York, and is partly purchased
from, partly donated by, his son, Mr. Harold C. Kimball. It is a
large instrument of three manuals, forty stops, and nearly three thou-
sand pipes; built by Roosevelt, and has long had the reputation of
being one of the choicest organs in this country. It is being placed
in Warner concert hall and will be ready for its formal opening some
time in November.

The pupils in the organ department show a marked increase in
numbers and enthusiasm, due, no doubt, to the splendid series of or-
gan concerts which Dr. Andrews has given here and elsewhere in
the country during the past few years.

The material changes in Warner Hall have been in making eleven
more practice rooms, substituting electric for water power in pumping
the organs and running the elevator, and in making connections with
the new Central Heating Plant.

For the first time, the concert hall has proven too small to seat
the audience of the Artist Recital Course, and with regret, the general
public had to be excluded. Plans are under consideration for the
enlargement of the concert hall, and it is hoped that they may be
carried out next summer.

Some important changes have been made in our courses of study,
and by vote of the Trustees at their meeting in June, the degree of
Bachelor of Music will be conferred upon those who complete the
course.

The need of more dormitories for young women is felt by the
Conservatory. Many pupils are turned away because of the inability
to secure accommodations in the College Halls.

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Three of our instructors, Messrs. Hastings, Homer, and Lind-
quist, are studying in Germany. We hope to secure their services
again after their more thorough preparation is complete.

Miss Kate Waldo Peck, class of '90, joins our faculty as instruc-
tor of singing. Miss Peck has had the privilege of study abroad, as
well as several years of most successful work as a singer and teacher
in Brookljrn, New York. Her success with us is assured.

Mr. Alderfer and Mr. Davis, both graduates of last year's class,
have been retained as instructors in piano and organ respectively.

' The following table shows the number of students during the
past year :

Women. Men. Total.

Fall, 1902 436 64 509

Winter, 1903 ...; jfi2 % 547

Spring, I9Q3 405 84 489

Table showing the number of students who have studied in both
Conservatory and College:

ConseiT- Conseir- CUnad
atoTir and atorj Donaerr* Claaiad
Collaca. alone. atorj. College.

Fall, 1902 151 349 414 6s

Winter, 1903 172 375 449 74

Spring, I9Q3 138 3S1 394 43

The following table gives departments taught, with number of
students in each :

Fall, Winter, Bprinc,
IWe. 1908. IWB.

Harmony 179 173 109

Counterpoint 6 9 9

Fugue and Canon 19 21 13

Ear training 24 90 59

History of Music 47 53 35

Pianoforte 412 425 360

Orsin S3 60 63

Singing 248 269 260

Violin and 'Cello 44 49 44

Wind instruments 6 4 2

Public Schoe] Music Instruction 37 30

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES W. MORRISON.

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Report of the Chairman of the Summer

School.

To the President:

Sir: Professor Anderegg acted as Chairman of the Summer
School Committee during its session in 1903. In view of his absence in
Europe it falls to me to present the report of the Committee for the
past summer.

The number of teachers employed was nine — a smaller number
than we have usually had, and also smaller than the Committee de-
sired. Three of these teachers had not been Oberlin teachers during
the previous year. These three were Professor Frederick A. Bushee,
Ph. D., of the Collegiate Department of Clark University; C. W.
Balke, '02, O. C, Graduate Student in the University of Pennsylvania,
and R. L. Baird, '02, O. C, Principal of Denmark Academy, Iowa.
The work of all three of these gentlemen proved very satisfactory and
fully justified the experiment of their appointment.

The public weekly lectures of the Summer School were delivered
by Professor G. F. Wright, President H. C. King, Professor C. B.
Martin, Dr. F. A. Bushee, Professor C. H. A. Wager, and Professor
L. B. Hall.

The number of students enrolled was 97 — a cheering increase upon
the numbers in attendance for the two preceding summers, but some-
what below the numbers reached in some past years. Of these 97
students 59 had been members of the College or Academy, 9 had been
members of the Conservatory or of the Public Schools, and 29 had
come from outside communities. They were organized into classes
as follows : .

Algebra Professor Anderegg !•

Classical Archaeology Professor Martin 7

Chemistry Mr. Balke 8

Economics Professor Bushee 15

History of English Literature Professor Wager 22

Theory of Poetry Professor Wager 12

Old English Grammar Professor Wager 5

Ethics Professor Maclcnnan 14

Geometry Professor Anderegg 5

German i and 2 Professor Martin 11

German 3 Professor -Anderegg 12

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Government in America Professor Hall 8

American History Professor Hall 7

English History Professor Hall 6

Oratory Professor Caskey 18

Ornithology Mr. Baird 12

Pedagogy Professor MacLennan 5

Psychology Professor MacLennan 14

Sociology Professor Bushee 12

It will be noted that only 19 courses were offered the past sum-
mer, as against 21 the previous summer. Not more than three courses
could be fairly reckoned as Academy courses. In other words the
School had to seek its support almost exclusively from our College
students with such teachers as might be desirous of pursuing College
studies.

The four members of the Summer School Committee (and it is
well known that Professor Anderegg heartily sustains the petition)
urgently pray the Trustees to consider whether it will not be possible
to grant a guarantee fund to the Summer School for the next three
years of $300 per year. The Committee do not expect to spend
quite all that sum, but they do fear that, for the first year at least, two-
thirds of that amount will be needed to make good the financial
deficiency which they expect to follow, if they are allowed to un-
dertake the enlargement of the work of the Summer School which
they very much desire to do. That enlargement would consist in
offering six Normal courses which they hope would attract Public
School teachers.

The six courses they propose for the first summer, subject to
modification, if it should seem to be wise to make some changes, are
as follows:

1. A course in Methods of Primary Instruction.

2. A Normal course in Nature Study.

3. A Normal course in Arithmetic.

4. A Normal course in English Grammar.

5. A Normal course in Geography.

6. A Normal course in History (for Grade or early High School
work).

The Committee hope that competent teachers for these courses
could be secured for the sum now paid to College teachers for Sum-
mer work, viz., $50 per course. They do not recommend that College
credit be given for these courses; and hence the tuition to pay for
this instruction must come from teachers who are drawn to the Sum-
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ii|j three years the courses might be self-sustaining, but they do not
expect it at first; and hence the necessity for a guarantee fund if the
effort i» ta be made at all. The Committee do not urge this enlarge-
ment for the sake of the Summer School, but for the sake of its
ultimate advantages for Oberlin College. The University of Chicago
Register for 1902-03 catalogues 236 men and 439 women as "Un-
classified Students;" and we believe that most of these 675 students
were members of the Chicago Summer School of 1902, and were, at
least very largely, engaged in teaching for the remainder of the
year. The University of Wooster catalogues 420 students in its
Summer School for 1902; and, as its courses were, for the most part,
Academic and Normal, with yery few College studies offered, it is.
reasonable to believe that a large part of these 420 students were
actively engaged as teachers. Miami University for the year, 1902-03,
rejceived from the State of Ohio $10,000 to support a Normal Depart-
ment. Of this sum the Trustees appropriated $2,000 to the Summer
School. As a result, its Summer School for 1903 offered a large
number of Normal courses at practically free tuition; a merely
nominal Registration Fee of $3 being charged for the term.

Many friends of Oberlin have felt for years that she was
losing much in many ways because she had so little connection^
with the schools and teachers of Ohio; and many plans have been-
discussed, and some have been tried, with the hope of remedying the
condition. Your Committee are convinced that the easiest, cheapest
and most effective method of establishing such relations with the
Ohio schools as are universally desired, will be found in offering
such Normal courses as have been given in the Summer Schools
of other Colleges of the State. They believe that such a plan will
attract no inconsiderable number of present teachers, and will, to a
certain degree, create a loyalty to Oberlin and its interests that will
help us much for years to come. They believe that this method, if
successful, will prove much more efficient in winning new students to
Oberlin than any similar sum expended in advertising or in visiting
schools. The amount of money necessary for a modest trial of the
scheme is so small that your Committee are very hopeful that the
Trustees will feel that it is wise to enter upon the plan at once.

Respectfully submitted in behalf of the Committee on the Sum-
mer School.

L. B. HALL.

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Report of the Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds.

To the President :

Sir: No property in Oberlin has been acquired by the College
during the past year, either for College use or for renting. The fol-
lowing buildings have been lost by fire : College Chapel, livery barn,
a smailler barn and a blacksmith shop on the rear of the Straus Block
lot, a bam and coal sheds on the Keep Home lot. With the ex-
ception \>i the blacksmith shop these buildings were entirely de-
stroyed. The clearing up of the Chapel site, including the cleaning
and removal of 183,000 brick and of the heaters and other material, cost
$576.28. The value of the material saved was not less than $1,200.
The livery barn was valued at about $1,500, while the other buildings
were of small value partly covered by insurance.

The loss of the Chapel was the most serious, not alone because of
temporary inconvenience^ but in the loss of books and records and in
the necessity of finding other less suitable places for the Chapel meet-
ings and for the College offices. The former have been held in the
First Congregational church. A dwelling house on West College
street belonging to the College was taken for the offices. Numerous
alterations, including the building of a fire-proof vault, were made at
a cost of $731.62 and new furniture and office fixtures purchased at
a cost of $885.50. This building, being old and poorly built, is ill
adapted to such use, some of the offices being much too small while
others are poorly lighted.

The Oberlin Electric and Heating Co. have installed a central
heating and lighting plant in the village and have contracted to heat
the following College buildings : Lord and Baldwin Cottages, Talcott,
Sturges, Warner, Peters, and Stewart Halls, Women's Gymnasium,
Spear Library and the Straus Block. The Prudential Committee cm-
ployed Richard D. Kimball, of Boston, to prepare plans and supervise
the installation of the heating systems in these buildings. Entirely
new plants were placed in Peters, Sturges and Stewart Halls. In the
other buildings use was made of existing plants, additional radiation
being provided in Baldwin Cottage, Lord Cottage and Talcott Hall.
In Peters Hall special provision was made for ventilation. Many of
the bills for this work are still outstanding so that a statement as to
the cost cannot be made at this time. The same company is to fur-

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nish electricity for power and for such lighting as the College may
desire. The present lighting of Spear Library is both inadequate
and unsafe and as soon as possible electric lighting will be substituted.

Society Hall, one of the Academy buildings, was improved
much as French Hall was last year by putting in a furnace, modern
seats, new floors where needed, etc. A large room on the second
floor was divided, one-half to be used as formerly by the Art De-
partment and the other half as a laboratory for the Academy. In the
corresponding large room in French Hall the raised floor was re-
moved, new floors laid and new seats provided. This is to be used
as an Academy study room and recitation room for large classes.
The cost of these improvements was $1,143.93 which, with the former
expenditure on French Hall, makes a total of $2,164.77 used in making
the improvements recommended by the Academy Committee' of the
Board of Trustees.

An unfinished part of the fourth floor in Peters Hall was put in
order for a Psychological Laboratory at a cost of $119.62. Additional
space for this purpose is very much needed.

Alterations costing $198.50 were made in the interior of Stewart
Hall so as to increase the size of the front hall, changing the front
entrance from Lorain to Main street; also providing a large front
room for a parlor. These changes, together with steam heat and
new parlor furnishings, make this building much more attractive than
ever before.

At the Johnson House on West Lorain street, purchased last
year, a bath room was added and the west side extended to enlarge
the dining room at a cost of $257.71, the tenant to pay 10 per cent ad-
ditional annual rent on this amount.

A plate glass front was put in another of the store rooms of the
Straus Block and the interior fitted up for a tenant at a cost of $318.30.
Only one of the original fronts now remains.

By order of the State Inspector, fire escapes were placed on the
front and rear of Lord Cottage at a cost of $100.

An open ditch across the north end of the Lord Cottage lot was
replaced with a 3-foot brick sewer costing $328.69. Earth from the street
was used to fill up and grade this part of the lot and of the lot ad-
joining it also owned by the College. Grading on the Campus around
and near the Memorial arch was completed. The ordinary repairs
have been unusually numerous this year. It seems to me that an
effort should be made to sell certain pieces of property where the
houses are old and the net returns small.

Respectfully submitted,

C. P. DOOLITTLE.
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[appendix.]

Statistics of Instruction.

Year of 1902-03.

The schedule numbers in the following tables refer to the courses as de-
scribed in the catalogue for 1901-02.

In science courses the hours of instruction spent by the teacher in labora-
tory work are marked with the letter ** L," the letter •* R " being used to
denote hours in regular recitation.

I. The

College.

Schedule Description
Nnmber. ofCoune.

I. Semester.

Semestei

Name of
TMieher.

Teach-
ing hra.

week.

Stadente.
Men. Wo-
men.

Teach,
inghra.

wS£.

Stndente.

Wo-
Men. men.

ANATOMY

L 8

Leonard...

Human Anatomy

. R 1

St John...

ASTRONOMY

... 1-2 Gen. Astronomy.

L 2
.. R 2

2
2

BIBLE AND THEOLOGY

Bosworth .

Bewer

Bosworth.
King

8 Freshman Bible ..
6 Sen.Bible(Eng.).

... 14 Sen.Bible (Greek)

9 Senior Theology..

BIBLIOGRAPHY

50
142

117

57
174

2
2

24
9

Root

• •

2 Use of Books

3 Hist. Printed Bool

k 2

L12
. R 2

L 6
. R 2
, L 8

5
5

L12
R2
L12
R 2
L 5
L 3

5
2
0

( <

4 lUus. of Books....

BOTANY
.« 1- 2 Gen. Morphology.

... 3- 4 Plant Ecology

... 7- 8 Class. Flow. Pl'ts
10 Class. Algae, etc.

Grover

••
««

9
2

125

11 15

17 28

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Name of Schedule Deeeriptioo
Teacher. Number. of Coarse.

L Semester.

Teach-

iiur hn. Stadeiite.
per Wo.

week. Men. meo.

U. Semester.

Teach-

ing hrs. Stodents.

per Wo-

week. Men, men.

CHEMISTRY
Jewett 1 G'lInorg.(21ab.s.)

L80
R 8

Taylor..

Jewett .

2 Qual. Analysis......

3 Quant. Analysis...

4 Organic. »

Taylor 6 Phy.&Th©o.Chem.

Jewett« 7 Assaying

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES

G. F. Wright Logic of Ch. Ev...

CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Martin„ 6 Hist Greek Sculp.

8 Ex. of SeU Mon...

ECONOMICS AND. SOCIOLOGY

70 80

L16

LIO

L 2

R 2

L 4

2
1

52
6

16
9

31
31

Bogart

1 Political Economy

2 Con. & Inter. Law

3
2
2

4
1

2
2
8

3
3

18
10

77
11

184

35
1

20
19

*•

4 EconHistofU.S.

5 Public Finance

8 R.R.&Tariff Prob.

... 11 Socialism

1
8

•• ., 12 PracticalSociology

** 15-16 Economic Seminar

ENGLISH COMPOSITION

Barrows 1- 2 Freshman (5 sec.)-

2a •* El.Co.(2sec)

Wager 3- 4 Sophomore (2 sec).

•* 5- 6 Advanced.

0
23

115

79
?6

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Wager 1- 2 Hist Eng. Lit

R- 4 Old EnoTish

220

88
19

Luce

7 Theory of Poetry..

8 Spencer and Milton

... 9-10 Shakespeare «

..il3-14 Masterp's 19th Cen.

86
38

82 201

10 62

109

102

190

255

78 208

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Name oi Schedule Description
Teacher. Number. of Coarse.

I. Semester.

Teach.

ing hrs. Students,
per Wo-

week. Men. .

II. Semester.

Teach-

iug hrs. Stodents.

per Wo«

. Men. jnen.

FRENCH

Cowdery... .. 1- 2 Beginning.*.

Wigbtman... 1- 2

Cowdery 3- 4 Second year

Wightman... 6- 6 Composition

'** 7- 8 Prose.of 19th Cent.

i " «... 18 Poetof 17&18Cen,

14 Poetry of l*>th Cen.

* • 15-16 Advanced Comp. . .

.....17-18 Hist. French Lit...

French Club

GEOLOGY L

A.A. Wright 1 General R

" 2 Advanced

G.F.Wright 6 Quaternary

GERMAN

McDaniels... 1- 2 Beginning

Mrs. Swing. 3- 4 Second yr. (2 sec.)
Abbott 3-4 •• "

*• ., 6- 6 Drama

'* ., 7- 8 Advanced Comp...

•^ 9-10 Rapid Reading

•* 13-14 Goethe. Schiller...

" .„ 15 Hist. Gem^an Lit..

'* ..4 16 kecent Drama

, ,'_. :' - GREEK

Mariin 1- 2 Freshman (2 sec.)..

*• 5 Theocritus

V ^; 6 Plutarch ,.

'* 9-14 Greek Tragedy..'...

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—

119

HISTORY.

Mrs. Johnston 1- 2 Spain, Italy

*• '* 3- 4 Mediaeval......

"5-6 Hist of Art..

•Hail: V 9-10 English

" ^... .11-12 American, Outline

•* ;.....: 15-16 ' " Detail..

•• 19-20 Current Events

127

4 16
"so ^39 ;

47 106

110 148

104

.29

145

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Name of Behednle Deaoription
Teacher. Nnmber. ofConne.

I. Semester.

Teach-
ing hra. Stadenta.
per Wo-

week. Men. men.

II. Semester.

Teach-
ing hrs. Stadenta.
per Wo.
week. Men. men.

LATIN

Cole 1- 2 Freshman (3 sec).

HaU 1- 2 ••

•* 8- 4 Roman Comedy...

Cole 9 Latin Writing

*• 10 Sight

** 16-16 Lyric & El. Poets.

*• 21-22 Teachers' Course..

" Special Course

MATHEMATICS

Anderegg.... 1- 2 Freshmen (2 sec.)..
Cairns 1- 2

* * 3-4 Plane Surveying. ..

Anderegg.... 7- 8 Adv. Analytics

.... 9-10 Calculus

....11-12 Adv. Integ. Calc...

Adv.Th'ryof Equ.

•* .... Adv. Anal. Geom.

MINERALOGY

Jewett..

Mineralogy

ORATORY

Caskey 1- 2 Gen.Course(2sec.)

•* 3- 4 Argu*t'n& Debate

" 6 Dramatic Reading

PEDAGOGY

MacLennan.. 1- 2 Hist, of Educat'n.
PHILOSOPHY

MacLennan..

King.

1 Introd. Psychology

2 Ethics

3 Exper. Psychology

4 Introd. to Philos'y
6 Logic

7- 8 Microcosmus

9-10 Hist, of Philo'phy.

128

L
R

69 161

8
8
L 4
R 1
2
3
8
2
8

47
48

40
12

26
3

36
61

0
6
4
2
0
0

169 98

18
0

62 18

3 2 11

8 68 49

89 79

8
L 4
R 1
2
3
3
2
3

L 6
R 3

66 146

8 46 36

40 61

18
12
18

1
2

138 96

6 30
2 8
2 7

1
0
6

46 7
8 2 16

3 66 66

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NanM of Sohadnle Detorijption
Tteeher. Number. of Coane.

L Sometter.

Teach-

ing hn. Students.

per Wo-

week. Men. mi

II.

Teaoh-
infirhrs.

week.

Stndente.

Wo-
Men. men.

PHYSICAL TRAINING (FOR CREDIT).

Pauver. 1- 2 Elem'y(men)2 sec.

Leonard Advanced (men)...

Hanna... 1- 2 E'em*t*y (women)

" 8- 4 Advanced "

PHY8IC8

St John and

Jewett«... 1- 2 Meche.,etc(2Ub.»ec)

** ..8-4 Elec'j, Magn'sm. Heat

..6-6 Mcht&Sound(Adva'd)

PHYSIOLOGY

Leonard 2 Physiology

SPANISH
Wightman .. Spanish

ZOOLOGY

A. A. Wright

and L. Jones 1- 2 Elem'y(21ab. sec.)

L. Jones 3 Anat. of Verteb'es

•• 4 Vertebrate Hist'gy.

•* ....« 6 Ornithology (El.).

" 7 •• (Ad.).

108

L 8

R 8

R 2

L 4

R 2

L 4

R 2

6 3

8 17

LIO

R 3

LIO

R 3

LIO

R 8

L 7

R 2

L 4

R 2

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11. The Theological Seminary.

Name of

Instrnetor.

Deeoriptlon of Conrse.

I. Semester.

Teach.

ing bn. Students,
per Wo.

week. Men. men.

II. Semeeter.

Teach-
ing hrs. Stadents.
per Wo-

week Men. men.

OLD TESTAMENT

Bewer Gen. Intro, to O. T

•• Sol. ** •• ** Lit....

" Hebrew a

Old Testament Theol. r.

NEW TESTAMENT

Bosworth Gen. Intro, to New Test.

•• Special Introd. i

* * ^fe w Test Exegesis a

•• " •* d&e

* ' Teachings of Jesus

Swing.

CHURCH HISTORY

Gen. Hist, of the Church

History of Dogma

Seminar in Dogma

*' Germ. Theol.

" Am. Theory

THEOLOGY

King Systematic Theology

HARMONY OF SCIENCE AND REVELATION

G. F. Wright. Apologjetics

** Inductive Reasoning...

HOMILETICS

Ctirrier Homiletics a and b

*• Sermon Plan Construct'n

** Preaching Exercises

** Pract Theology a and c

** Social Problems

** Missions

** Encyclopedia

*• Sermon Criticism

ELOCUTION AND ORATORY

Caskey Elocution and Oratory...

SLAVIC DEPARTMENT

Miskovsky... Theology

.Church History

.English .

...Psychology...

...Ethics

...Apologetics..

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III. The Academy.

Subject.

Fall T^rm, 1902.

Winter T*m, 1903

Spring Term ,1908

Instroetor.

No. of

T^aoh- Students

ing Men.
hoara. Women.

No. of

Teach Students

ing Men.
hours. Women.

.No. of

Teach- Students

ing Men.
hours. Women.

BIBLE

Peck

Sherk

..Senior

..Middle

.... 1 45 43
.... 1 32 25

1 46 43
1 29 21
1 18 17
i 16 12
1 15 8

1
1
1
1

26 21

Shaw

Adams

..Junior Middle

.Junior

.... 1 17 18
... 1 16 12

18 17
15 11

Smithe

..irregulai*,

.... 1 12 5

12 5

122 103

124 101

71 54

ENGLISH

Thompson.

Brownback

««

Thompson'.

..I.-II.-III (2 sec)....
..IV.-V..VI(3sec.)..

.VII.-VIII.-IX*

..X.-XI,-XII

.Grammar

.... 10 28 22
.... 15 57 46
.... 6 45 56
.... 2 8 .17
5 10 4

10 27 19

15 60 51

6 30 47

2 8 17

5 16 4

21 19

47 37

25 34

5 19

8 4

148 145

141 138

FRENCH

8 40

15 57

GERMAN

GREEK

35 49

48 60

34 16

39 15

106 113

Cowdery ..1.-11,-111 (2 sec) 10 8 34 10 7 31 10 5 26

Mrs.CowderyIV,-V,-VI 506 505 506

I.-II 5 8 21 5 8 11

13 43

McDaniels...I,-II.-ni 5 25 89 5 21 36 5 14 25

Mrs. Swing..IV,-V,-VI 6 10 10 5 10 9 5 9 8

..I.-II 5 17 15 5 9 7

32 40

Edg.FauverI,-n,-III 5 16 9 5 14 9 5 13 9

1,-11.... 5 6 0 5 6 0

Peck IV.-V 5 18 7 5 19 6

Mrs.HarrounVI 5 18 7

37 16

HISTORY

Edw.Pauver 1,-11,-111 (2 sec.) 8 13 22 8 12 20 8 9 22

*Beciting in three seotiont in the fall and winter, and in two sections In the spring.

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Instraetor.

Subject.

Fall Tenn, UNtt.

No. of

Teach- StadentB

iag Men.
hours. Women,

Winter I'm, 1MB

Spring Tenn,1908

No. of

Teaoh- Stndenti

iag Men.
honra. Women.

No. of

Tbach- Stadentt

inf Men.
hoars. Women.

LATIN

85
18
18
12

25
14
19
11

Hosford I.-II.-ni (2 sec) 12

Shaw IV.-V.-VI. 6

•• VIIa.-VIIIa,-IXa(2 8.) 8

•» Vllb.-VIIIb 5

MTS.HarroiinIXb

Hosford X.-XI,-XII (2sec.).... 8 22 24

Smithe I,-II ..-

•• III.-IV.-V 6

•* VII. prose 4

MATHEMATICS

Tompkins.... Arithmetic 5

Shcrk Alg. I.-II.-III (2 sec.) 10

Cairns Algebra IV,-V.-VI.... "

Mrs. Cairns..Algebra IV.-V.-VI....

Algebra IV.-V.-VL...

Sherk Alg. I.-II.-III. Rev...

•• Algebra IV.-V

•• Algebra II

Cairns Geometry 1,-11.-111...

Sherk Geometry I,-III 4

121 66

12 29 24

5 14 15
8 18 19

4 10 9

8 28 20

6 9 6

5 6 9

118 69

12 22 82

5 16 17

8 19 20

5 9 9
8 24 21

6 9 6
5 4 6

109 105

109 102

103 101

5 4 4

4 2

2 2

10 32 13

24 10

18 »

2 31 15

27 13

26 15

2 21 11

17 11

14 19

7 7

5 1

5 8 10

7 6

10 1

4 18 6

27 20

22 16

4 12 7

14 15

111 78

ORATORY

Tompkins ...Declamation 2 11 9 2 10 10 2 10 g

SCIENCE

Adams Phys.I..II.-ni(2RecL15

sec. 5 Lab. sec.)R8

L 15 L 15

16 R 8 25 18 R 8 84 18

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Treasurer's Report.
1903.

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Treasurer's Statement.

To THB BOAKD OP TRUSTEES OF ObEIUM CoLLBGB:

The Treasurer of the College submits his Annual Statement for
the year ending August 31, 1903, as follows:

The funds separately invested are:

Prinoipal. Net

C G. Finney Memorial Fund— Aiigiirt8i.i9(tt. Income.

Mortgages $74,100 00

Cash 5,786 25

$79,88625 $4,11280

Springer Fund —

Cleveland real estate 5,091 80 3P3 35

Foltz Fund-
Bonds 52250 2250

Totals $85.50055 $4,43865

The other funds are invested as a whole. A summary statement

of these investments with the net income thereof, is as follows:

PriocipaL Net

▲ogait 31, 1908. Income.

Notes and mortgages , $494,031 75 $25,425 59

Stocks and bonds 209,702 49 9,851 15

Collateral loans , 455,400 00 19,922 87

Real estate 242,55248 6^47 57

Deposits (Savings and Trust Co.'s) 20,000 00 3,015 82

Sundry accounts 81,738 76

Loan to General Fund 11,00034

Deposits subject to check and cash 9,972 93 213 84

Total of general investments $1,524,398 75 $65,276 84

Total of special investments 85,50055

$1,609,899 30
The above investments are stated in detail, beginning at page 152
of this report

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The net income of general investments, $65,376.84, has been
divided at the rate of 4.5 per cent, among the funds to which they be-
long. The fraction $29.57 ^^s credited to University account.

The excess of income over expense in the accounts of University,
College, Academy and Theological Seminary, combined as usual,
was $7,301.53, which being subtracted from the accumulated deficits
of previous years, $18,301.87, leaves $11,000.34 as the total unpaid
deficit on August 31, 1903.

Gifts have been received during the year as fbllows:

GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USE.

From "A Friend," $190.00 for the Library.

From E. A. West, $50.00 for the Library.

From Seabury C. Mastick, $198.17 for the Library.

From Irving W. Metcalf, $100.00 for the Library.

From Charles M. Hall, $175.00 for the Library.

From Lyman B. Sperry, $25.00 for current expense.

From Tracy McGregor, $75.00 for aid to students.

From Wilbur F. Crafts, $5.00 for Chapel Fund.

From friends, $1.00 for Keep Home improvement.

Sundry gifts for Women's Recreation Field, $778.50.

Sundry gifts for Chapel hymn books, $375.00.

From A. M. Johnson, $50.00 for Employment Fund for Seminary
students.

From an anonymous donor, $100.00 for Employment Fund for
Seminary students. •

From the Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, $40.85 for aid
to students in the Theological Seminary.

From members of the Living Endowment Union, $727.50 for cur-
rent expense.

From Lucien C. Warner, $25,000.00; the balance of his gift for the
construction and equipment of the new Gymnasium for men.

For the support of the Slavic Department in the Theological
Seminary from —

Miss Anne Walworth $20000 Miss Sarah N. Kittredge. .$225 00

O. J. Wilson 75 00 C. A. CoflSn 100 00

J. N. Smith 5000 S. T. Wellman 5000

Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Olney 50 00 S. C. Smith 50 00

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C. W. Bubier 3500 Mrs. Elizabeth C. Parsons 500

Alfred Chase 500 Edward W. Capen 500

Mrs. Anna Jarabek 10 00 Mrs. N. P. Washburn 5 00

William Woodring 100 Miss Helen L. Galpin 100

First Congregational Church, Oberlin 58 26

First Congregational Church Sunday School, Oberlin 8 44

Second Congregational Church, Oberlin 5 70

Central Congregational Church Sunday School, Jamaica Plain,

Mass 2$ CO

First Congregational Church, Marietta, 0 10 00

Bethlehem Congregational Church and Sunday School, Cleve-
land 16 2$

Pilgrim Church, Cleveland 45 36

Congregational Education Society 200 00

Olivet Sunday School, New York City 25 00

Women's Home Missionary Society, First Congregational

Church, Buffalo 50 00

Ohio W. H. M. U 30797

South Dakota W. H. M. U 75 00

New York W. H. M. U 15000

The total amount of these gifts for immediate use is $29^^25,00.

This amount is distributed in the Statement of Income and Expense
among the following accounts:

University $ 565 65

College, special accounts 10 00

Theological Seminary, special accounts.*.. 137483

Library 715 17

Miscellaneous 26,559 35

$25,725 00

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GIFTS TO FORM NEW FUNDS OR INCREASE OLD ONES.

From Frank Hovcy, of Oberlin, $iaoo for endowment.

From W. F. McMillen, of Chicago, $25.00 for endowment.

From F. M. Hayes, of Buffalo, ^.00 for endowment.

From R. A. Beard, of Cambridge, Mass., $100.00 for endowment.

From Edward West, of Wellington, $1,000.00 for endowment.

From "A Friend," $2,500.00 for endowment.

From Thomas A. Hall, of Chicago, $100.00 for Library endowment.

From Mrs. Rose P. Firestone, of Detroit, $4,000.00 for endowment.

Prom Mrs. Mary C. McClelland, of Benzonia, Mich., $800.00 for
endowment

From Lucien C. Warner, of New York, $5,000.00, for endowment
of the Warner Gymnasium.

Sundry gifts to the Adelia A. Field Johnston Professorship,
$7,520.oa

From Curtis T. Fenn, of Chicago, $73.00; a gift to the Dascomb
Professorship.

From the estate of Charles £. Fowler, of Oberlin, $i,ooaoo to
found a scholarship in the Theological Seminary.

From the estate of Joshua W. Weston, of La Crosse, Wis.,
$1,000.00; his bequest to Oberlin College.

From the estate of John Henry Barrows, $1,000.00; his bequest to
found the John Manning Barrows Scholarship.

From Mrs. Henrietta Vance, of Seattle, Wash., $250.00; an addi-
tional gift to the Louis Nelson Churchill Scholarship.

From Alumni, $4,591.50, part payments on subscriptions to the
Class Reunion Funds.

The total amount of these gifts to capital account is $28,98^.50 as is
also shoum on page 145 of this report.

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Endowments for current expense now stand on the books as follows:

General or University Endowments $643372 29

College Department " 405453 85

Academy

Theological Seminary 120,674 7^

Conservatory of Music 30419 50

Library 23,101 26

Total $1,223,526 66

The accounts hereinafter presented are:

First, a set of tables showing the current income and expenses of
each Department in detail, accounts of general interest being placed
under the heading "University."

Second, a list of all the Funds and Balances in the care of the
Treasurer, showing their amounts at the beginning and end of the
year.

Third, a classified list of the properties or assets in the hands of
the Treasurer.

Fourth, a list of buildings, grounds, apparatus, etc., in use for Col-
lege purposes, and not valued on the Treasurer's books.

JAMES R. SEVERANCE, Treasurer.
Obekun, November 18, 1903.

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Statement of Income and Expense for the Year.

UNIVERSITY.

INCOME.

From invested funds $24,938 84

From rent of houses and lands not valued 719 40

Biography of C. G. Finney 34 87

Gifts for current expense 565 65

Total income $a6^58 76

EXPENSE.

Salaries — Administration $61232 00

Treasurer's office 3,680 00

Library 2,400 00

Gymnasia 2,967 00

Secretary's office 1,880 00 — $16,159 00

Clerks 1,203 77

Stationery, printing and postage 3,376 26

Advertising 1,015 16

Fuel and lights 936 55

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 6,465 87

Men's Gymnasium 1,643 55

Women's Gymnasium 553 96

Outside Representation 99 68

Sundry expense 2,950 40

Alumni Dinner 288 08

Payments on Lord and Hinchman funds (in excess

of income) 38 98

Total expense $34t73i 26

Special Accounts — receipts.

Art School fees $ 933 70

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium 551 00

Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 90 00

Jones Loan Fund, loans returned 225 00

Scholarship Funds, from investments 1,682 12

Scholarship Loan Fund, loans returned I34 40

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$3,351 39

PAYMENTS.

Art School $933 70

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium 385 26

Jones Loan Fund, loans made 550 50

To holders of scholarship orders 1^56 93

Scholarship loans 22$ 00

COLLEGE.

INCOME.

From invested funds $17397 25

Term bills 40^41 86

Graduate fees 56800

Elocution, special fees 38 00

Rent of Andrews house (net) » 161 56

Total income $59>5o6 67

EXPENSE.

Salaries $34»i07 37

Clerks 180 87

Stationery, printing and postage 98 44

Outside Representation 19 10

Fuel and lights 1,196 31

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 2,588 11

Diplomas 252 75

Sundry expense 165 22

Museum 400 00

Herbarium 17500

Apparatus, Physical Laboratory 400 00

Apparatus, Psychology 692 30

Apparatus, Zoology 292 00

Apparatus, Anatomy 9^ 41

Trustee Scholarships 448 50

Avery Scholarships 246 00

Oberlin College Scholarships 36 00

Total expense $4i>394 38

Special Accounts— iecsifts.

Chemical Laboratory fees $i>375 61

Botanical " " I55 00

Zoological " " 524 5*

Amount carried forward $2,055 11

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Amount brought forward $2,055 1 1

Physical Laboratory fees 20700

" " gift 1000— 21700

Archxology fees 83 65

Anatomy " 26 00

Scholarship funds from investments 1,102 50

PAYMENTS.

Chemical Laboratory $i»i37 31

Botanical " 168 64

Zoological " 692 31

Physical " 370 46

Archaology 86 16

Anatomy 26 00

Advance to Herbarium 17 03

Advance to Museum 22 76

To holders of scholarship orders 816 50

$3.48436

ACADEMY.

INCOME.

Term bills

EXPENSE.

Salaries $12,260 52

Clerks 21 15

Stationery, printing and postage 124 27

Fuel and lights 380 83

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 1,718 47

Advertising 167 00

Trustee scholarships 751 50

Total expense

Special Accounts— receifts.

Physical Laboratory

PAYMENTS.

Physical Laboratory

142

$3,337 17

$13^62

$15,443 74

119 00

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INCOME.

From invested funds $9f289 29

Term bills and rent of rooms. 1,916 50

Diplomas 45 00

Total income $ii»a50 79

EXPENSE.

Salaries $8,95000

Clerics 32 00

Stationery, printing and postage 142 69

Advertising 11785

Fuel and lights .«. 738 85

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 1,380 24

Diplomas 100 75

Sundry expense 166 55

Total expense $11,626 93

Special Accounts— recexpts.

Slavic Department —

Gifts for current expense $1,833 98

Scholarship Funds —

From investments $854 63

Gifts 4085

Loans repaid 63 00— 958 48

$2,792 46

PAYMENTS.

Slavic Department $11699 10

To holders of scholarship orders .1,460 66

$3,159 76

CONSERVATORY*

INCOME.

Term bills $5i,S25 98

Interest on Reserve Fund 1,980 13

Recital tickets 1,20405

Sale of instruments 600 00

Rent of Williams house (net) , 14889

ToUl income $55i459 05

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EXPENSE.

Salaries $3Si37t> 62

Library, etc ^9 30

Stationery, printing and postage 622 20

Advertising 241 47

Piano and organ tuning 1,024 5^

Fuel and lights 1,037 6p

Clerks 26 08

Insurance 235 18

Janitor and engineers 2,100 00

Supplies and repairs 2^8037

Purchase of instruments 3f402 69

Artist recitals 1,725 00

Sundry expense 38 00

Total expense $48,863 10

Special Accounts — receipts.

Loan Fund, loans returned 269 65

PAYMENTS.

Loan Fund, loans made 312 75

LIBRARY.

INCOME.

From invested funds $1*035 06

Dividend G. T. Harvey Company 60 00

Term bills 1,558 65

Private examinations 424 75

Registrar's fees 48 50

Books and supplies sold 40 82

Gifts for current expense and purchase of books.. 715 17

Transfer from Botanical Laboratory 60 co

Transfer ir6m Herbarium 63 97

Trustee appropriation 1,000 00

Total income $5>oo6 92

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KXPIKSE.

Librarian's assistant, clerks $958 07

Case Library fee 10 00

Binding books 314 70

Stationery, printing and postage loi 61

Purchase of books 2,202 79

Total expense 3»S87 '7

MISCELLANEOUS.

RECEIPTS.

Finney Memorial Fund, interest $4»ii2 80

Foltz Tract Fund, interest $22 50

Foltz Tract Fund, sale of tracts 46 70— 69 20

Annuity Funds, income 6,696 02

Summer School, fees 1416 15

Profit on sale of lands 4,506 33

Chapel insurance 20,600 co

Fund to purchase bust of Fenelon B. Rice 702 66

Sundry receipts 1,165 S8

Gifts for immediate use 26,559 35

Gifts to form new funds or increase old ones 28,989 50

Total receipts $94>8i7 59

PAYMENTS.

Finney Memorial Fund $2,500 00

Foltz Tract Fund 85 31

Annuities 9,825 36

Summer School 1,439 64

Severance Chemical Laboratory for equipment 197 01

Warner Gymnasium balance on construction 25,00000

Organ (from insurance) 4,539 17

Office furniture and supplies (from insurance) 1,426 84

Bust of Fenelon B. Rice 700 50

To holders of orders on Earl fund 382 50

To holders of orders on Burke fund 100 00

To holders of orders on Sprague fund 50 00

To holders of orders on McCormick fund 5 00

To holders of orders on McGregor fund 75 00

Sundry payments 1,360 08

Total payments $47,686 41

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Summary of the income and expense of the University, College, Academy,
and Theological Seminary.

Income. Expense. Surplus. Deficit.

University $26,258 76 $34,731 26 $8,472 SO

College 59*50667 41,39438 $18,11229

Academy 13,48362 15,44374 1,96012

Seminary (Theol.)... 11,25079 11,62893 37814

$110,499 84 $103,198 31 $18,112 29 $10,810 76
103,198 31 $10,810 76

Surplus $7,301 53 $7,301 53

Summary showing the increase of Funds and Balances in the care of the

Treasurer.

Receipts. Payments.

University, special accounts $3,616 22 $3,351 39

College, special accounts 3484 26 3,337 17

Academy, special accounts 119 00 93 49

Theological Seminary, special accounts 2,79246 3>i59 76

Conservatory, income and expense 55,459 05 48,863 10

Conservatory, special accounts 289 65 312 75

Library, income and expense 5,00692 3,587 17

Miscellaneous 94,817 59 47,686 41

Total increase of funds and balances, as
is also shown on page 151 of this report •

$165,585 15
110,391 24

.$ 55,193 91

$110,391 24

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Funds and Balances in the care of the Treasurer

ijigUBt 81, 1902.

$172,044 36

17,514 89

24475 00

10,000 00

31,42941

15,27500

58,000 00

4,&46 10

16,000 00

2,000 00

85 06

79 14

1,505 91

165 02

334 97

36,249 72

38,000 00

5,000 00

200,000 00

10,000 00

2,705 62.

7^76 53

2,961 64

271 79

66440

6626

8,120 37

45302

60,50892

UNIVERSITY.

Auffust 81, 1908.

General Fund (so called)

Endowment $173,406 86

Alumni Fund I7,5I4 89

E. I. Baldwin Fund 24,475 00

Henrietta Bissell Fund 10,000 00

James H. Fairchild Professor-
ship 31,429 41

Walworth Fund 15,275 00

Dickinson Fund 38,000 00

Clarissa M. Smith Fund 4,846 10

Ralph Plumb Fund 16,000 00

Truman P. Handy Fund 2,000 00

Shaw Fund 85 06

Latimer Fund 79 14

Butler Fund 1,505 91

Whipple Fund 15845

Perry Fund 340 25

Reunion Fund of 1900 (part) . . . 40,756 22

William K Osbom Fund 38,000 00

John Sherman Fund 5,000 00

John D. Rockefeller Fund 200,000 00

E. A. and C. B. Shedd Fund 10,000 00

Marcus Lyon Fund 10,000 00

Warner Gymnasium Endow-
ment 5,000 00—$ 643,872 29

C. N. Pond Fund 2,703 17

Dutton Fund 7,123 97

Pnmty Fund 2,944 9i

Finney Fund 266 02

Davis Fund 694 30

Ryder Fund 60 34

Dascomb Fund 7,935 78

Warner Fund 443 41

C. V. Spear Fund 59,531 82

Amounts carried forward $ 81,703 72 $ 643,872 29

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1,1 16 6i

6^1584

4,53020

24.68528

5.08845

5,000 00

3,000 00

2,000 00

1,000 00

6,000 00

1,000 00

1,100 00

1,000 00

1.045 00

5,000 00

1,000 00

6,000 00

1,54266

1,000 00

500 00

200 00

505 39

1,250 00

6,500 00

1,000 00

1,015 00

66550

Amounts brought forward $ Bi,yo3 72 $ 643372 29

Gillett Fund 1,046 86

Ross Fund 6,379 55

Gilchrist Fund 4^59 05

Marx Straus Fund 23,296 13

Mary A. Springer Fund 5,091 80

Collins Fund 4,995 83

Cooper Fund 2,985 00

Williams Fund 2,031 &;

Hotchkiss Fund 1,020 00

Firestone Fund 9.920 00

Edward West Fund 967 56

McClelland Fund 800 00— 144,697 17

Cowles Memorial Scholarship.. 1,00000

Dr. A. D. Lord Scholarship 1,100 00

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Lord Schol-
arship 1,000 00

Hinchman Fund 1,04500— 4,14500

Lydia Aim. Warner Scholarship 5,000 00

F. V. Hayden Scholarship 1,000 00

Avery Fund 6,000 00

Finney Scholarship 1,534 Qi

Howard Valentine Scholarship. 1,000 00

Caroline Scholarship 1,000 00

Talcott Scholarship 1,000 00

Metcalf Scholarship 1,000 00

Dodge Scholarship 1,000 00

Dascomb Scholarship 1,000 00

Bierce Scholarship 1,000 00

Graves Scholarship 1,00000

Louis Nelson Churchill Scholar-
ship 75000

Ann Lincoln Fund 200 00

Jones Loan Fund I79 89

Mary K Wardle Scholarship. .. 1,250 00

Dr. Dudley Allen Fund 6,500 00

Henry N. Castle Scholarship. .. 1,000 00

Class of '58 Scholarship 1,020 00

Class of '69 Scholarship 745 5o

Amounts carried forward $33»iSo 30 $792,714 46

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Amounts brought forward $ 33»i8o 30 $ 792,71^ 4f}

1,000 00 Clasa of '98 Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Jean Woodward Irwin Scholar-
ship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Howard Gardner Nichols Schol-
arship 1,000 00

1,000 00 May Moulton Memorial Fund. . 1,000 00
John Manning Barrows Scholar-
ship 1,00000

130 00 Trustee Scholarship Fund (part) 130 00
461 25 Scholarship Loan Fund (part) . . 370 65— 38,680 95
616 37 Unsued income, above scholar-
ships ^S M

781^3 45 C. G. Finney Memorial Fund. . 79,886 25

2,688 37 Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 2,778 37

500 00 Lewis Fund S12 08— 83,176 70

3,278 91 Balance credits, sundry accounts 23,183 05

COLLEGE.

67,810 57 Endowment 67,959 59

19,561 41 Dascomb Professorship i9fiZA 4i

50,000 00 Stone Professorship 50,000 00

55,881 37 Predrika B. Hull Professorship. S5»88i 37

30,000 00 Graves Professorship 30,000 00

30,000 00 Brooks Professorship 30,000 00

23,748 25 Monroe Professorship 23,748 25

25,000 00 James F. Clark Professorship. . . 25,000 00

20,000 00 Perkins Fund 20,000 00

25,000 00 Avery Professorship 25,000 00

40,000 00 L. H. Severance Professorship . 40,000 00

4,519 23 Adelia A. Field Johnston Pro-
fessorship 12,039 23

6,196 00 Severance Laboratory Fund 6,196 00— 405458 85

I 14 G. P. Wright Research Fund. .. i 14

1,000 00 Jennie M. Williams Scholarship 1,000 00

(^000 00 Ellen M. Whitcomb Scholarship 6,000 00

1,000 00 Flora L. Blackstone Scholarship 1,000 00

Amounts carried forward % 8,000 00 $1,344,200 39

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Amounts brought forward $ 8,000 00 $1,344,300 59

500 00 Tracy-Sturges Scholarship 500 00

1,50000 K A. West Fund 1,50000

1,000 00 Harvey H. Spelman Scholarship 1,000 00
1,00000 Lucy B. Spelman Scholarship.. 1,00000
1,00000 Janet Whitcomb Scholarship... 1,00000
1,000 00 Mrs. F. K Tracy Scholarship. .. 1,000 00
5,000 00 Frank Dickinson Bartlett Schol-
arship 5,000 00

2,000 00 Andover Scholarships 2,000 00

1,000 00 J. C. Wilder Scholarship 1,000 00

2,500 00 The Comfort Starr Scholarship

Fund 2,50000— 24,50000

80 80 Unused income, above sch'ships 216 80

152 26 Balance credits, sundry accounts 13 35

ACADEMY.

12 46 Balance credits, sundry accounts 37 97

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

34,281 88 Endowment 34,281 88

21,371 10 Finney Professorship 21,371 10

8,935 84 Morgan Professorship 8,935 84

25,000 00 Holbrook Professorship 25,000 00

21,707 00 Michigan Professorship 21,707 00

4,750 00 Place Fund 4,750 bo

3495 55 Burrell Fund 3495 55

133 39 Hudson Fund I33 39

Joshua W. Weston Fund 1,000 00— 120,674 76

4,126 II West Fund 3»96i 78

5,00000 Lemuel Brooks Scholarship 5,00000

1,500 00 Jennie M. Rossiter Scholarship. 1,500 00

1,000 00 McCord-Gibson Scholarship . . . 1,000 00

1,00000 John Morgan Scholarship 1,00000

1,000 00 Painesville Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Oberlin First Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Oberlin Second Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000 00

Amounts carried forward $ 11,500 00 1493,605 05

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Amounts brought forward $ ii»500 oo 1,493,605 05

1,000 00 Anson G. Phelps Scholarship. . 1,000 00

1,000 00 Butler Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Miami Conference Scholarship. 1,000 00

1,250 00 Tracy Scholarship 1,250 00

1,000 00 Sandusky Scholarship 1,000 00

1,25000 Leroy H. Cowles Scholarship.. 1,25000

Charles K Fowler Scholarship. 1,000 00

70000 Emerson Scholarship (part)... ;^oo 00

291 95 Susan S. Button Fund 291 95-* I9>99i 95

1,118 87 Unused income, above scholar-
ships 616 69

184 16 Balance credits, sundry accounts 469 04

CONSERVATORY.

30419 50 Fenelon B. Rice Professorship. 30419 50

14,138 95 Reserve Fund 2K),734 90

75470 Loan Fund 73160— 51,88600

LIBRARY.

21 00 Library Fund 21 00

82700 Class of '85 Fund 82700

500 00 Cochran Fund 500 00

500 00 Grant Fund 500 00

400 00 Hall Fund 500 00

100 00 Henderson Fund 100 00

11,176 63 Holbrook Fund 11,176 63

500 00 Keep-Clark Fund 500 00

1,000 00 Plumb Fund 1,000 00

5,724 13 E, K. Alden Fund 5.724 I3

100 00 Andrews Fund 100 00

860 00 Faculty Fund 2,152 50— 23,101 26

82 73 Balance credits, sundry accounts 1,502 48

SPECIAL.
538 61 Folts Tract Fund 522 5©

$1,536,501 06 Total funds and balances $i,59i>604 97

Total increase of funds and bal-
ances $55,193 91

Liabilities.

39,651 43 Deposits and personal accounts 18,204 33

$1,576,152 49 $i,609A)9 30

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The foregoing Funds and Balances are invested in the following Properties,

Notes and Mortgages distributed as follows:

Cleveland $ 67,198 86

Akron 3i|6oo 00

Oberlin 24,337 30

Columbus 11,60000

Lorain 44*700 00

Tallmadge 1,000 00

Wellington 800 00

Geneva 800 00

Collinwood 1,000 00

Farm lands in Ohio 83,51500

Total in Ohio $266,551 16

Topeka 11,759 67

Eureka 661 80

Hutchinson 4,000 00

Wabaunsee 350 00

Farm lands in Kansas 23,383 00

Total in Kansas 40,15447

Matthews I3i779 33

Farm lands in Indiana 2,975 00

Total in Indiana 16,754 33

Grand Rapids 19,100 00

Farm lands in Michigan 37>495 00

Total in Michigan 56,595 00

Chicago 117,00000

Chicago Heights 3,500 00

Total in Illinois 120,500 00

Des Moines 940 00

Farm lands in Iowa 11,000 00

Total in Iowa 11,94000

Duluth 15,600 00

Farm lands in North Dakota.. 1,521 07

Farm lands in Nebraska 3,791 00

Timber lands in Mississippi 4,901 20

Total notes and mortgages $538»3o8 23

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Amount brought forward $ 5j8,3o6 33

Stocks and Bonds —

$ i86 06 Streator, III., paving bonds 186 06

9,00000 Knickerbocker Ice Co. bonds 8,18643

20,00000 United States Coal Co. bonds 19,20000

20,00000 Cleveland & Eastern Ry. bonds... 18,00000

30,00000 Syracuse Rapid Transit bonds 27,00000

30,000 00 Wheeling Traction Co. bonds 30,000 00

12,000 00 Elyria Building Co. bonds 12,000 00

2,500 00 C. & A. R. R. stock (guaranteed) . 2,500 00

10,000 00 Railway Steel Spring Co. stock. . . 8,762 50
30,000 00 Northampton Portland Cement Co.

bonds 30,000 00

25,000 00 Steel Steamship Co. bonds 24,750 00

20,00000 Western Ohio Ry. Co. bonds 15,82500

10,000 00 Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Eng. Co.

bonds 10,000 00

1,000 00 Rio Grande & West'n Ry. Co. bond 1,000 00
50a 00 Northern Pacific Ry. Co. bond.... 365 00
1,00000 Euclid Heights Realty Co. bond.. 1,00000
1,000 00 First Nat. B'k Wellington, stock. . 1,250 00
200 00 Cowles Electric Smelting & Alumi-
num Co. bonds (guaranteed) 200 00

Total stocks and bonds $ 210,224 99

Collateral Loans $ 455,400 00

Real Estate—

Ashtabula (city property) 74 68

Oberlin (city property) 127,975 98

Sandusky (city property) 2,100 00

Cleveland (city property) 5,000 00

Akron (city property) 12,000 00

Toledo (city property) 1,000 00

Elyria (city property) 200 00

Farm lands in Ohio 1,900 00

Total in Ohio 150,250 66

Grand Rapids (city property) . . 12,599 00
Farm lands in Michigan 6,180 00

Total in Michigan i8>779 00

Amounts carried forward $169^029 66 $1,203,933 22

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Amounts brought forward $169,02966 $1,203,93322

Topeka (city property) I3f399 45

Hutchinson 2,700 00

Farm lands in Kansas 38,012 70

Total in Kansas 54fii2 15

Fargo (city property) 4,100 00

Farm lands in North Dakota... 1,188 37

Total in North Dakota 5,288 37

Chicago 10,000 00

Farm lands in Illinois 5,675 00

Total in Illinois 15,675 00

St. Paul (city property) 1,319 10

Farm lands in Nebraska 945 OQ

Farm lands in South Dakota... 600 00

Farm lands in Florida 200 00

Farm lands in Washington 475 00

Total real estate 247,644 28

Sundries^

Construction acct. Baldwin Cottage (loan) 11,965 41

Construction acct. Talcott Hall (loan) . . . 13,075 46

Advances to Council Hall 130 48

Advances to Museum 1,213 85

Advances to English Theological Course. 1,204 89

Advances to Scholarships 314 24

Improvements to Keep Home 1,224 53

Furnishings Park Hotel 6,11742

Unexpired insurance 1,884 18

Time deposits (Sav'gs & Trust Comp's) . . 20,000 00

Bills receivable and sundry accounts 74»43i 82 — 131,562 28

Loan to General Fund 11,000 34

Deposits subject to check and cash I5>759 18

$1,609,899 30

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SUMMAIIY OF ASSETS.

Notes and Mortgages $ 538,306 23

Stocks and Bonds 210,224 99

Collateral Loans 455>400 00

Real Estate 247,644 28

Sundries i42»562 62

Cash I5.7S9 18

$1,609,899 30
Buildings and Equipment (see page 156) 745,950 00

$2,355^49 30

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The following properties in use for College purposes are not entered
in the foregoing list of assets, and are not valued on the Treasurer's
Books. The values given are reasonable estimates based on their cost emd
present condition:

Spear Library $ 30,000 00

French and Society Halls 14,000 00

Peters Hall 7S,ooo 00

Finney Laboratory 9>ooo 00

Warner Hall 125,000 00

Council Hall 7S,ooo 00

Sturges Hall 10,000 00

Talcott Hall and furniture 65,000 00

Baldwin Cottage and furniture 40,00000

Lord Cottage and furniture 24,000 00

Stewart Hall 4,000 00

Keep Home 3,000 00

Other houses and College grounds 8»ooo 00

Library 50,000 00

Women's Gymnasium . : 8»ooo 00

Physical and Chemical Apparatus I5f000 00

Museum 25,000 00

Botanical Collection 7,500 00

Musical Library 3,000 00

Musical Instruments and Apparatus 36,000 00

Arboretum 2,000 00

Athletic Grounds 2,950 00

Severance Chemical Laboratory 69,500 00

Warner Gymnasium 45»ooo 00

$74S»0SO 00

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Report of the Auditing Committee, for the
Year Ending Aug. 31, 1903.

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College:

Your Committee have personally examined all Bonds, Notes,
Mortgages, Certificates of Stock, Deeds, and other evidences of
Property which were on hand at the beginning of said year or
were received during the year, and also all securities deposited
as collateral for loans. We find that all are now in the hands of
the Treasurer or are fully accounted for, and that all payments
of principal endorsed on any of the securities have been properly
credited on the books of the College.

Your Committee also had the assistance of Mr. A. J. Horn,
of Qeveland, an expert public accountant and auditor, who
carried out the following procedure :

The balance shown in Cash Account was verified by actual count of
money in ofike and reconciliation of bank balances.

All disbursements appearing on Cash Books were checked by vouchers
and other voucher evidence.

All footings in Cash Books were verified and extensions examined.

The Treasurer's books were found in perfect balance as evidenced by
the equilibrium of Trial. Balance under date of August 31, 1903, which was
carefully rechecked with Ledgers and Cards.

Your Committee further desire to commend the admirable
manner in which the accounts of the Treasurer are kept. The
present system is such that the work of the bookkeepers as well
as that of the Auditing Committee and the Expert Accountant is
done in much less time than under systems formerly in use, and
the voucher system is now thorough and complete.

(Signed) Irving W. Metcalf,

E. J. Goodrich,

Auditing Committee.
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Actions Taken at the Meeting of the Trus-
tees, November i8, 1903.

There were present President King, Messrs. Allen, Cochran,
Cox, Fitch, Goodrich, Metcalf, Mills, ShurtlefF, Smith, Strong,
Tenney.

The election of trustees resulted as follows:

Dr. Dudley P. Allen, Cleveland, Ohio, re-elected by the
alumni, full term.

Dr. Sydney D. Strong, Oak Park, 111., elected by the alumni
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. William B. Cham-
berlain.

Mr. J. G. W. Cowles, Qeveland, Ohio ; Dr. Charles S. Mills,
Cleveland, Ohio ; Dr. Henry M. Tenney, Oberlin, Ohio, re-elected
for the full term.

Mr. C. B. Shedd, Chicago, III, elected for partial term to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of President Dan F.
Bradley.

Mr. J. O. Troup, Bowling Green, Ohio, elected for partial
term to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Dan P. Eells.

The following vote was passed with reference to the Finney
Memorial Chapel: "In view of the fact that Mr. Finney's gift
for the erection of the Chapel has now reached the designated
limit, and that the necessities of the College urgently require a
new chapel, and that the annual income of the college now ex-
ceeds the expenses, the trustees instruct the Committee on the
College Chapel to proceed with all convenient dispatch to the
erection of the Finney Chapel, after full consultation with Mr.
Finney."

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BULLETIN
OF OBERLIN COLLEGE

NEW SERIES No. 13

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ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE 1903-04

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OBERLIN COLLEGE

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERUN

COLLEGE FOR 1903-04

PRESENTED TO THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING, NOVEMBER l6, 1904

OBERLIN OHIO

PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE

November X5, 1904

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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Printing and Publishing Co.

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Contents

The Board of Trustees

The College Administration, 1904-05

Advisory Committees . . ' . .

President's Report ... . .

Reports of Officers

Secretary .... . .

Librarian .... . .

Dean of College Men
Dean of College and Graduate Women
Dean of the Theological Seminary
Principal of the Academy
Director of the Conservatory
Chairman of the Summer School
Director of Men's Gymnasium
Director of Women's Gymnasium
Superintendent of Buildings^ and Grounds

Appendix, Statistics of Instruction

Treasurer's Report ... . .

Report of the Auditing Committee

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Actions Taken at the Meeting of the Trustees, Nov.
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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rev. henry CHURCHILL KING, D.D., President

TSKM SXPIftSS JANUARY 1, 1906

t*Hon. Theodore E. Burton, A.M., LL.D., . . Cleveland, 0.

♦Paul D. Cravath, A.M., ' New York City,

♦Rev. Charles J. Ryder, D.D., .... New York City,

♦Charles B. Shedd, Chicago, 111.

TSKM BXPIRBS JANUARY 1, 1906

H. Clark Ford, Cleveland, 0,

♦Homer H. Johnson, A.M., LL.B., .... Cleveland, O.

t^Rev. Sydney D. Strong, D.D., .... Oak Park, III,

♦James O. Troup, Bowling Green, O,

TSRM KXPIRS8 JANUARY 1, 1907

F. Norton Finney, Milwaukee, Wis.

Edward J. Goodrich, Oherlin, 0,

Louis H. Severance, New York City,

t^LuaEN C. Warner, M.D., LL.D New York City.

TSRM SXPIRS8 JANUARY 1, 1908

♦WiLUAM C. Cochran, Cincinnati, O.

♦Rev. Frankun S. Fitch, D.D., .... Buffalo, N, Y,

♦Irving W. Metcalf, Oberlin, 0.

t^MERRiTT Starr, A.M., LL.B., .... Chicago, III.

TERM RXPIRSS JANUARY 1, 1909

♦Amzi L. Barber, A.M., New York City,

♦Charles F. Cox, A.M., New York City,

WiLLiAjM N. Gates, Elyria, O,

t^Rcv. JuDSON Smith, D.D., Boston, Mass.

TKRM SXPIRRS JANUARY 1, 1910

t*DuDLEY p. Allen, A.M., M.D., .... Cleveland, O.

♦John G. W. Cowles, LL.D., Cleveland, O,

Rev. Charles S. Mills, D.D., .... Cleveland, O.

Rev. Henry M. Tenney, D.D Oberlin, O,

'Alumnus. tElected by the Alumni.

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THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION 1904-05
The Trustees: Officers and Co^imittees

President, Henry Churchill King

Assistant to the President, Charles W. Williams

Treasurer, James R, Severance

Secretary, George M. Jones

Appointments: — Tenney, Allen, H. H. Johnson. Mills.

Auditing: — Metcalf, Goodrich.

Honorary Degrees: — King, Smith, Fitch

Investment: — King, Ford, Gates, Metcalf, J. R. Severance, L. H. S«vei-
ance.

Nomination of Trustees: — Warner, Mills, Metcalf.

Prudential: — King, Doolittle, E. P. Johnson, Mrs. Johnston, G. M. Jones,
Morrison, Root, J. R. Severance, Swing.

JOINT committees OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY

Administration Building: — King, Doolittle, G. M. Jones, Peck, J. R. Sev-
erance, L. H. Severance, Miss Wolcott.

Art Building:— King, D. P. Allen, W. N. Gates, C S. Mills, L. H. Sev-
erance, Mrs. Johnston, Martin, St. John.

Biological Science Building: — King, D. P. Allen, Grover, L. Jones, Leon-
ard, A. A. Wright.

Chapel: — King, Doolittle, H. H. Johnson, C. S. Mills, J. R. Severance,
Morrison, Swing.

Library:— King, Bosworth, I. W. Metcalf, Root, St. John.

New Half Million Fund:— King, H. C. Ford, L. H. Severance, Bosworth,
Root.

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The Faculty: — Officers and Committees
general faculty
Chairman, King
P' ice-Chairman, A. A. Wright
Clerk, Martin
Registrar, Wager ^

Art Exhibition: — Martin, Cole, Mrs. Johnston, Lord, St. John.
Athletics: — Leonard, Miller, St. John.

Care of Buildings: — See Committee of Prudential Committee.
Catalogue: — G. M. Jones, Bosworth, Peck, Root, Miss Wattles.
Chapel Seating: — Miller, Cairns, Mrs. Fargo, Miss Fitch, Peck, Miss

Wolcott, Mrs. Woodford.
Commencement and Other Public Occasions: —
7. General Arrangements — King, Bosworth, Carter, Mrs. Johnston, G.

M. Jones, Morrison, Peck, Root.
-?. Entertainment of Guests — Morrison, E. F. Adams, Miss Fitch, Swing.

3. Processions and Seating — Wager, Cole, Heacox, Lord.

4. Alumni Dinner — Carter, Breckenridge, Caskey, Cowdery, Fauver.

5. Decoration — Grover, Kimball, Miss Oakes, Taylor, Miss Thompson.

6. Distribution of Tickets — Leonard.

Conference on Professional or Technical Study: — Bogart, Hall, Leonard,

St. John.
Discipline: — Miller, Caskey, Jewett, King, Morrison, Peck, St. John.
General Art Interests: — Martin, Mrs. Johnston, Dickinson, Kimball, Miss

Oakes.
Graduate Study and Degrees in Course: — A. A. Wright, Anderegg, Bogart,

Fullerton, Hall.
Gymnasium: — Men, Leonard, Miller, St. John. Women, Miss Hanna, Miss

Abbott, Miss Hosford, Miss Wattles, Miss Wickwire.

Honorary Degrees: — King, Bosworth, Wager, A. A. Wright, G. F. Wright.

Intercollegiate Debate: — Caskey, Bogart, Hall, Root, Wager.

Lectures and Entertainments: — Martin, Bosworth, King, MacLennan,

Morrison, Wightman.
Library: — St. John, Bosworth, Dickinson, Grover, Martin, Root, Shaw

Wager, Wightman.
Musical Organisations: — G. M. Jones, Morrison, Peck.

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Nominations: — King, Bosworth, Jewett, St. John.

Outside Representation and Newspaper Correspondence: — G. M-. Jones,
Currier, St. John, Wager.

Petitions and Requests from Students:— J ev/ctt, Caskey, Miss Fitch, Mil-
ler, Morrison.

Printing and Clerk Hire:—G. M. Jones, Caskey, MacLennan, Peck, Wager.

Religious Work: — Bosworth, Andrews, Cole, Cowdery, Miss Hosford,
Shaw, Sweet, Ttylor, A. A. Wright, G. F. Wright

Requests for Work with Private Teachers: — Peck, Miss Fitch, Miller,
Mrs. Woodford.

Secondary Schools: — Miller, G. M. Jones, MacLennan, Peck, St John.

Social Occasions: — Grover, Miss Abbott, Bogart, Cairns, Cowdery, F. G.
Doolittle, Mrs. Fargo, Miss Fitch, Shaw, Smith, Miss Wickwire.

Student Publications and Exercises: — ^Jewett, Caskey, Wager.

Summer School: — Martin, Anderegg, MacLennan, Miller.

COLLEGE FACULTY

Chairman, King

Vice-Chairman, Root

Dean of College Men, Miller.

Dean of College and Graduate Women, Miss Fitch

Clerk, Martin

Assigning Officer, Caskey

Additional Work and Substitutions: — ^Wager, Cole, Cairns, Cowdery, Miss
Fitch, Miss Hanna, Lord, Martin, Miller, Mosher, Miss Wolcott

Admission: — G. M. Jones, Miss Abbott, Anderegg, Cole, Grover, Hall,
Martin, St John, Wager, Wightman, Miss Wolcott, A. A. Wright

Course of Study: — Martin, Hall, Wager.

Failure in Scholarship: — Miller, Cairns, Cowdery, Miss Fitch, Martin, Miss
Wolcott

Free Tuition and Beneficiary Aid: — Men, G. M. Jones, Jewett, Martin,
Miller, Wightman. Women, Miss Hosford, Miss Abbott, Mrs. Fargo,
Miss Fitch, Miss Hanna.

Nominations: — King, Hall, Jewett, Wager.

Postponement of Required Work: — Hall, Anderegg, Caskey.

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Schedules: — MacLennan, Caskey, Lord
Student Conferences: — ICing, Miller, Wager.

Class Prayer-Meeting Leaders: — Seniors, King; Juniors, Mrs. Johnston;
Sophomores, Root; Freshmen, Lord.

THEOLOGICAL FACULTY

Chairman and Dean, Bosworth
Secretary and Registrar, Fullerton

Advertising, Newspaper Correspondence, and Printing: — Bosworth, Fuller-
ton, Miskovsky.

Beneficiary Aid: — Swing, Currier, King.

Catalogue: — Bosworth, Fullerton.

Commencement: — Bosworth, Caskey, Currier, Miskovsky.

Council Hall: — Swing, Bosworth, Miskovsky.

Curriculum: — Bosworth, Fullerton, Swing.

Endowment: — Bosworth, King, Currier, Swing.

Finance and Budget: — Swing, Bosworth, King.

Outside Representation and Lectures: — Bosworth, Fullerton, G. F.
Wright

Scholarships and Loans: — Swing, Currier, King.

Pulpit Supplies: — Currier, Fullerton, Bosworth.

Slavic Department: — Miskovsky, Bosworth, Currier, Swing.

Student Employment Fund: — Bosworth, Currier, G. F. Wright.

ACADEMY faculty

Chairman, Peck
Dean of Academy Women, Mrs. Fargo
Secretary, Miss Hosford
Appointments and Budget: — Peck, Adams, Miss Brownback, Miss Hos-
ford, Shaw, Miss Smithe, Miss Thompson.

CONSERVATORY FACULTY

Chairman, Morrison
Dean of Conservatory Women, Mrs. Woodford
Secretary, Lehmann
Artists' Recitals: — Morrison, Adams, Breckenridge.

Graduation: — Morrison, Dickinson, Heacox, Mrs. Woodford, and other
teachers of candidate in question.

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The Council: — Officers and Committees

general council

Chairman, King

Vice-Chairman, Root

Clerk, Martin

Appointment of Instructors and Adjustment of Work: — King, Bosworth,

Martin, Morrison, St. John.
Budget'.^Rooi, Jewett, King, Peck, St. John.

college COUNCIL

Chairman, King
Vice-chairman, Root
Clerk, Martin
Appointments:— Kmg, Hall, Jewett, Martin, A. A. Wright.
5tt(/^^/.— Jewett, Hall, St. John.

conservatory COUNCIL

Chairman, Morrison
Secretary, F. G. Doolittle
Appointments: — Morrison, Andrews, Carter, Sweet.
Budget: — Morrison, F. G. Doolittle, Heacox.

The Women's Board of Managers

Dean of College and Graduate Women: — Miss Florence M. Fitch, Ph. D.

Dean of Conservatory Women: — Mrs. Harmonia W. Woodford.

Dean of Academy Women: — Mrs. Edith C. Fargo.

Term Expires 1904 : — Miss Arietta M. Abbott, Mrs. Marion J. P. Hatch.

Term Expires 1905: — Mrs. Kate W. Morrison, Mrs. Alice M. Swing.

Term Expires 1906: — Miss Frances J. Hosford, Miss Delphine Hanna.

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Prudential Committee: Officers and Committees
Chairman, King
Secretary, G. M. Jones
Advertising: — G. M. Jones, Severance.
Arboretum: — Grover, Mrs. Johnston.
Boarding Halis: — ^Root, Johnson.
Budget: — Root, Morrison.

Buildings and Grounds: — Swing, C P. Doolittle.
Janitors: — Chemical, Finney, French, Peters, Society, Spear, Sturges, C. P.

Doolittle; Men's Gymnasium, Leonard; Warner, Morrison; Women's

Gymnasium, Miss Hanna; Council, Swing.
Rented Buildings: — Doolittle, Morrison, Severance, Swing.
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds: — C. P. Doolittle.
Use of Buildings for Public Meetings: — Severance.
Use of Peters //a//;— St. John.

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ADVISORY COMMITTEES

[With dates of expiration of appointments.]

SBMINASY

F. S. Fitch, D.D., '70, 45 Lexington Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.— Jan. i, '05.
C. W. Hiatt, D.D., '85, 820 Logan Ave., Cleveland, O.— Jan. i, '07.
K T. Harper, '81, 730 West Adams St, Chicago, III.— Jan. i, '06.

Merritt Starr, '75, 916 Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111. — ^Jin. i, '05.
R. R. Rogers, '76, 627 E. 6th St., Jamestown, N. Y. — Jan. i, '07.

0. S. Kriebcl, '89, Prin., Perkiomen Sem., Pennsburg, Pa. — ^Jan. i, '06.

CONSSRVATORT

L. C. Warner, '65, 632 Broadway, New York N. Y.— Jan. i, '05.
G. B. Siddall, '91, 1015 Garfield Bldg., Qeveland, O.— Jan. i, '07.
Mrs. W. H. Kinder, Findlay, O. — ^Jan. i, '06.

DRAWING AND PAINTING

1. W. Metcalf. '78, Oberlin, O.— Jan. i. '05.

A. V. Churchill, h. '98, Columbia Univ., New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '07.
A. S. Kimball, Oberlin, O. — ^Jan. i, *o6.

C. S. Mills, D.D., 463 Jennings Ave., Cleveland, O. — ^Jan. i, '05.
Charles P. Treat, '70, 80 Broadway, New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '07.
Mrs. E. M. Fairchild, Library School, Albany, N. Y.— Jan. i, '06.

ANCIENT LANCUAGltS

Judson Smith, D.D., '63, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. — ^Jan. i, '05.

A. B. Bragdon, Monroe, Mich. — ^Jan. i, '07.

J. B. Smiley, '89, 157 Brainard Ave., Cleveland, O. — Jan. i, '06.

MODERN LANGUAGES

S. D. Strong, Oak Park, 111.— Jan. i, '05.

H. T. West, '90, Kenyon College, Gambier, O.— Jan. i, '07.

W. I. Thomas, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, 111. — ^Jan. i, '06.

PHILOSOPHY

H. M. Tenncy, D.D., Oberlin, O.— Jan. i, '05.

Ray Stetson, '93, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.— Jan. i, '07.

P. G. Knowlton, '90, Fargo College, Fargo, N. Dak. — ^Jan. i, '06.

P. D. Cravath, '82, 52 William St., New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '05.
G. B. Heazleton, '79» Hay ward Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. — Jan. i, '07.
J. R. Commons, '88, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. — ^Jan. i, *o6.

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ICATHSMATXCt

H. H. Johnson, "85, 1009 American Trust Bldg., Qeveland, O.— Jan. i, '05.
A. M. Johnson, 2735 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.— Jan. i, '07.
W. N. Crafts, '92, Oberlin, O.— Jan. i, '06.

BIOLOCICAX, 8CISNCX

D. P. Allen, '75, 278 Prospect St., Cleveland, O.— Jan. i, '05.
C. A. Kofoid, '90, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Cal.— Jan. i, '07.
C. J. Chamberlain, '88, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, 111.— Jan. i, '06.

OtHSm PHYSICAL SCISNCSS

H. Clark Ford, 708 New England Bldg., Cleveland, O.— Jan. i, '05.
R. A. Millikan, '91, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, 111.— Jan. i, '07.
C. M. Hall, 'Ss, Niagara Falls, N. Y.— Jan. i, '06.

ATHXXriCS AND GYMNASIUM tOR MSN

W. C. Cochran, '69, 245 Gilman Ave., Cincinnati, O. — ^Jan. i, '05.

J. B. Dill, 27-29 Pine St., New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '07.

T. D. Wood, ^88, Teachers' College, New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '06.

ATHUTICS, GYMNASIUM, AND PHYSICAL TRAINING POR WOMSN

C. F. Cox, '69, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y.— Jan. i, '05.
Mrs. S. C. Mastick, '92, 35 Mount Morris Park, W., New York, N. Y.—

Jan. I, '07.
Miss H. L. Keeler, '78, 93 Olive St., Cleveland, O.— Jan. i, '06.

XCONOMICS, POUTICAL tClSNCX, AND SOCIOLOGY

T. R Burton, '77, 709 Society for Savings Bldg., Cleveland, O.— Jan. i, '05.
R D. Durand, '93, 1303 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C. — ^Jan. i, '07.
T. N. Carver, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.— Jan. i, *o6.

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The Annual Report for 1 903-04

Presented by the President to the Trustees at the Annual
Meeting, November 16, 1904

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College :

Gentlemen : As President of the College, I have the honor
to submit the following report, for the academic year 1903-04.

TRUSTEES

Death of General Giles Waldo Shurtleff

I am once more obliged to begin my annual report with the
record of the death of a member of the Board of Trustees, and
of one whose service to the College has Jbeen of unusual length
and value, General Giles Waldo Shurtleff, who died May 6, 1904,
in the seventy-third year of his age. It need hardly be said that
forty-four years of continuous service of an institution must
count. Serving as tutor for four years, as adjunct-professor for
four years, as professor for seventeen years, as member of the
Prudential Committee for thirteen years, as financial agent re-
peatedly, as Secretary and Treasurer for six years, and as Trustee
up to the time of his death — Mr. Shurtleff rendered the College
a remarkably steady, varied, strong, and long service. The
strength of the College lies especially in the knitting up with it of
such strong, long lives.

Nor could there be any doubt as to General Shurtleff's great
devotion to the College, his strong loyalty to it. Though a man
of unusually wide interests, it might be fairly said that the
College constituted for him, throughout his life, the greatest
interest of all. He was always ready to sacrifice for it, in many

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ways and in hard years, when a less devoted man would have
found it easy to leave it. He could sacrifice to the College even
his personal preferences and prejudices. No college is poor that
can call out such loyal devotion, and can be sure of such loyal
devotion.

Moreover, General ShurtlefF believed, with all the strength
of his rugged soul, in the fundamental principles for which the
College stood. With much experience of the world, he still stood
clear-eyed, strong, courageous, ready to defend and press for-
ward those principles. He was not here simply to earn his living,
even by most faithful work. He conceived himself as here to
stand for great principles. The College was for him an incarnate
cause, to which he believed he owed the best he could give. It is
hardly possible for a man to give to any cause a greater service
than this.

Length of service, high and self-sacrificing devotion, depth
of conviction upon great principles personally embodied, heroic
fighting, breadth, clear-sightedness, delicate aesthetic interest,
tenderness, and deep and humble and penitent faith — all these
are the gifts of this knight of God to the College, and not to the
College alone.

The funeral services were held at the Second Congregational
Church Sunday afternoon. May 8, in the presence of a large con-
gregation. Professor A. A. Wright, Professor L. B. Hall, and
the President spoke upon different phases of General Shurtleff's
life. The minute adopted by the Trustees at the semi-annual
meeting June 20, should be added here :

"With profound sorrow this Board records the removal by death of
one of its most faithful and devoted members. After a protracted illness,
characterized by extreme suffering, General Giles Waldo Shurtleff en-
tered into rest on the sixth day of May, 1904.

"For eleven years he has been a member of this Board, serving upon
its important committees, and giving without stint of his rare wisdom
and energy and active effort for the welfare of the College. His connec-
tion with this institution covers a period of more than fifty years, inter-

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rupted only by the years in which he was devoting and risking his life
in the service of his country during the war of the Rebellion.

"He entered the preparatory department of Oberlin College in 1853,
and, working his way through the successive departments, was graduated
with the class of 1859. With the outbreak of the war, and while a mem-
ber of the theological seminary, he entered the army as captain of Com-
pany C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, a company composed chiefly of students
of the college and citizens of Oberlin. Captured with the most of his
company in one of the severe battles, he spent a year in Andersonville
and Libby prisons, suffering severely of the hardships there endured. Re-
ceiving his discharge because of illness, he reenlisted as soon as he was
able, and returned to the front in command of the Fifth U. S. Infantry, a
colored regiment, and at the close of the war was promoted to the rank
of Brevet Brigadier-General. Returning to Oberlin, he served in the Col-
lege as tutor, adjunct-professor, and for seventeen years as professor of
Latin. For thirteen years he was a member of the Prudential Committee,
for seven years he was the Secretary and Treasurer of the College, and
from the time of his resignation from these oflices to his death he was
a member of this Board.

"His life thus has been given to and invested in Oberlin College. To
him both the College and the Community are greatly indebted. He was
an earnest Christian and a faithful member and officer in the Church.
He was an energetic and patriotic citizen, interested greatly in civic wel-
fare and purity, a most energetic opponent of the liquor evil and of polit-
ical corruption and debauchery.

"Jn recent years General Shurtleff has had greatly at heart the beauti-
fying of Oberlin, and the improvement of its lawns and streets and build-
ings, and his plans to this end have been far-reaching and well consid-
ered. Withal he has been a faithful friend, and a humble follower of
Christ, realizing his weakness rather than his strength, and trusting not
in any merit of his own but in the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord. With
his devoted wife and daughters we sympathize, and mourn the loss of
one who has been with us a strong and faithful co-laborer in this work
to which we are called."

Resignations and Changes

At the last annual meeting of the Board, Dr. Dudley P.
Allen, Dr. J. G. W. Cowles, Dr. Charles S. Mills, and Dr. Henry
M. Tenney were elected to succeed themselves for the term end-
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their representative for this term. Mr. Charles B. Shedd of
Chicago, of the class of 1868, was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mr. E. K. Warren for the term
ending January i, 1905. Dr. Sydney D. Strong of Oak Park,
Illinois, of the class of 1881, was elected by the alumni to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Professor William B. Chamber-
lain, for the term ending January i, 1906. Mr. James O.
Troup of Bowling Green, Ohio, of the class of 1870, was elected
by the Board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr.
Dan P. Eells, for the term expiring January i, 1906.

At the semi-annual meeting of the Trustees in June, Mr.
W. N. Gates of Elyria was elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of General Giles Waldo ShurtleflF, for the term ending
January i, 1909.

The gentlemen named have all accepted their election, and
the full membership of the Board is thus again made complete.

The terms of office of Hon. T. E. Burton, Mr. Paul D.
Cravath, Dr. Charles J. Ryder, and Mr. Charles B. Shcdd expire
January i, 1905. The successor to Mr. Burton as the alumni
trustee has already been elected by vote of the alumni and will
be reported for the first time, according to custom, at the meeting
of the Board. The successors to Mr. Cravath, Dr. Rydef, and
ATr. Shedd should be elected by the Trustees at this meeting.

The Work of the Trustees

A word may be fittingly added concerning the work that is
being done by the Board of Trustees. For I doubt if the alumni
and friends of the College have any adequate conception of the
time and thought and eflFort now given by the Trustees to the
work of the College. For the sake, therefore, of this larger con-
stituency to which the annual report to the Trustees goes, the
present section is added. I judge that it may be certainly said
that the Trustees were never a stronger or more efficient body
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College, having been chosen with great care by the Board them-
selves, and giving real thought and personal help to the work.
Great care has been taken in recent years to have matters so
thoroughly planned that all sides of the work of the College
might be intelligently presented to the Trustees in connection
with the two regular meetings. The full minutes of the Pruden-
tial Committee, the preliminary and final budget, all annual re-
ports, and important Council recommendations are in the hands
of all the Trustees some time before the meetings. In accord-
ance with the rule of the Trustees, all recommendations of ap-
pointments by the Council are to be in the hands of the Committee
on Appointments of the Trustees three weeks before the meeting
of the Trustees. And the alumni may be assured that all appoint-
ments are most carefully considered. They must pass through
the hands of important committees on appointments elected by
the Councils, have the approval of the department Councils, and
the final approval of the General Council. The Committee on
Appointments of the General Council endeavors to use the
greatest care in its recommendations — many appointments re-
quiring most careful research. As a single illustration, it may
be mentioned that before recommending the appointment of Miss
Florence M. Fitch as Dean of College and Graduate Women, the
Committee on Appointments had passed in review some eighty
names suggested for that position.

A preliminary budget for the year following is presented at
the annual meeting in November, and the final budget for the
same year at the semi-annual meeting in June. The final budget
gives in considerable detail the anticipated income, and all pro-
posed expenditures in all departments.

The work of the Trustees themselves is carefully organized
in standing committees on Appointments, Auditing, Honorary
Degrees, Investment, and Nomination of Trustees, besides the
Prudential Committee. All investments are in the hands of an
Investment Committee made up, aside from the President, en-

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tirely of business men. And the friends of the College can be
assured that the investments made by the College are most care-
fully scanned by men capable of giving expert advice.

The Trustees have^now before them for final consideration
at this meeting a very full and careful report of a Committee on
Codification, consisting of Mr. Starr, Mr. Metcalf, and Dr. Smith,
that is intended to give an orderly working basis for all the
varied activities of the College. To this work the Trustee Com-
mittee, the Council Committee on Appointments, the Secretary,
and the General Council have all largely contributed, and the final
result can hardly fail to further the work of the College. The
President's Secretary has completed the examination of that part
of the Trustees' record not gone over before, for all data as to
organization that could be of value in considering the report of the
Committee on Codification.

Besides all this routine but most important work of the reg-
ular meetings, the Trustees have been liberal donors both of
money and of effort, as it needs no enumeration of examples to
prove. Hardly any service outside the internal work of the
College itself can so further its interests as the influence of the
Trustees exerted in winning friends for the College and givers
to its needs. In the indirect cultivation, in the words of another,
of "the conditions that make giving easy, pleasant, unforced, and
willing," the Trustees have and must always have a very large
place. They can speak with an influence and manifest disinter-
estedness that is hardly possible to any one immediately concerned
in the internal work of the College. And this indirect service of
the College in winning for it interested friends is quite certain to
yield ultimately more considerable sums of money than the most
strenuous direct efforts, for which preparation has not been so
carefully made.

DONORS

This general principle is certainly strikingly illustrated in
the main gifts which have come to the College during the present
year.

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The Olney Art Collection

First of all, of course, must be named the splendid g^ft of
the Olney Art Collection, which may be conservatively estimated,
probably, at a money value of not less than $200,000 — one of the
largest single gifts that has ever come to the College. Professor
and Mrs. Olney had become interested in the College during a
considerable number of years through a number of lines of per-
sonal influence. The College gratefully accepts this beautiful
addition to its resources, and only regrets that it has no building
in which it can give the collection a fitting setting. Professor
Olney 's death occurred July 18, 1903, and that of Mrs. Olney
January 18, 1904. The will of both left the entire Art Collection
and a sum of $10,000 for its maintenance to Oberlin College. The
College Review of February 11, 1904, was largely devoted to a
memorial of Professor and Mrs. Olney, and to an attempt to
bring out something of the real significance of the gift. The col-
lection represents the life-long thought and care of a beauty-loving
man, taking his opportunity for years to pick up choice art
objects in different lines. It is broadly representative of art work
in many kinds of material — wood, ivory, porcelain, metals, and
precious stones, as well as in painting. For this very reason, this
collection is likely to prove of all the more value educationally,
as it will naturally help those who study it to discriminating
appreciation in all these different lines of art work. The collec-
tion consists of some thousands of art objects. To begin with,
there are over three hundred pictures, mostly oil paintings, some
believed to be ancient, but most of them belonging to the modem
school. Some famous names are represented in the paintings.
The collection is particularly strong in ivories, and there are fine
specimens of Japanese, Italian, and Indian work in this medium.
Some of these pieces are exceedingly valuable. The collection- is
rich,' also, in cameos, in bronzes, in small mosaics, in cloisonne
enamel work, and in Satsuma pottery; and a varied and con-
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Such a mere catalogue may serve to show how rich an addition
to Oberlin's resources this collection is likely to prove. And it
must certainly be a valuable nucleus for a steadily growing art
collection, which shall minister to the aesthetic gratification and
refinement of many generations. It seems impossible properly to
provide for the collection without a new building. For the present,
therefore, the collection must remain in Cleveland. The collec-
tion continues in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Guernsey, who had
charge of it so long under Professor Olney's direction. And the
continued use of the gallery in which it is placed has been gen-
erously granted to the College for the time being by its present
owners, Mr. and Mrs. Judd. The gallery has been regularly
opened to the public one day in the week, as during Professor
Olney's life. The College is thus trying to make certain that the
collection shall continue to render a large community service,
even while it must still remain in Cleveland. But it is plainly
most desirable that so large and valuable a gift should not remain
outside the practically available resources of the College. The
need of an art building had been deeply felt before ; but this gift
seems to make such a building simply imperative.

Other Gifts

A complete list of the smaller gifts of money, both for en-
dowment and for immediate use, is contained in the Treasurer's
report under these headings; and these gifts are here gratefully
acknowledged. They have given essential aid at vital points in
the carrying on of the work of the past year, and in providing
for the general endowment needs. The gift of Mrs. S. A. S.
Moulton affords help at a particularly vital point, and its condi-
tions give the College the largest liberty in its administration.

In addition to these gifts of money, the College has received
other donations of material and equipment. First of all should
be mentioned the bust of Professor Rice, given through the con-
tributions especially of the Faculty of the Conservatory and of
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court of Warner Hall, and was unveiled with appropriate cere-
monies on Monday, March 7, 1904. It is a beautiful memorial of
the man who, more than any other, made the great work of the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music possible, and so fitly stands in
the very center of the Conservatory building.

Through Mr. Charles H. Burr, the Department of Physics
has received from Mr. Charles H. Hulburd, President of the
Elgin Watch Company, a four-horse power gas engine — a valuable
addition to the equipment of the department. The Chemical De-
partment has received from Mr. Charles M. Hall of Niagara Falls,
of the class of 1885, several large sheets of pure aluminum, which
have been of great service in certain chemical processes because
it is so difficult to procure the metal sufficiently pure for the re-
quirements of the Chemical Laboratory. There have also been
received for the Mineral Museum from Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton of
Qeveland, several boxes of minerals and ores of the precious
stones. The latter have been collected from some of the most
notable gold and silver mines in this country, and will be of great
service. Professor Jewett says, as illustrating the kinds of rocks
in which these metals occur. Mrs. Bolton has also sent to the
Geological Department some fine trilobites and brachiopods from
the Middle Devonian strata of England. Professor Albert A.
Wright also notes the gift of some fine mollusks and fish from
the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Coast, by Mr. O'Connor of
Oberlin, and of a rare and perfect crustacean (eurypterus) ten
inches long, from the cement quarries of Buffalo, New York,
presented by Mr. Lewis J. Bennett. Some other valuable mate-
rial was added to the l^oological museum by exchange. The most
important gift to the Botanical Department has been a valuable
collection of plants from Washington, D. C, and vicinity, from
Mr. E. S. Steele, of the class of 1872, now of the United States
Department of Agriculture. A large and valuable microscope
has come to the College by the will of Dr. Albert Moser of the
class of 1892. Attention is also directed to the considerable

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number of gifts made to the library, a full statement of which is
found in the Librarian's report. It will be seen that a very con-
siderable part of the additions made to the library the present
year came through these special gifts. The President wishes, on
behalf of the Trustees and Faculty, to return to all these givers
our hearty thanks for their remembrance of the College in these
several ways. The College deeply appreciates not only the gifts
themselves, but the loyal interest which has inspired the pfts.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS ,

Death of Mr, William Brown Bedortha

In turning to the consfderation of the work of the officers
of the College, I can hardly fail to speak first of all of the recent
death of Mr. W. B. Bedortha, who has been for many years the
regular Attorney of the College. Though his name has nowhere
appeared in the regular publications of the College as a College
officer, he has, nevertheless, in many ways and at many points
rendered the College a large and indispensable service. It will
be difficult for the College, as it will be difficult for the town, to
replace him. Mr. Bedortha's death occurred October lo, 1904,
and impressive funeral services were held October 13, at which
special addresses were made by Professor Albert A. Wright,
Professor A. S. Root, and Judge D. J. Nye of Elyria, who voiced
for the College as well as for the town and the county, the high
estimation in which Mr. Bedortha has been held by all who
knew him.

In connection with the death of Mr. Bedortha may be appro-
priately mentioned also the death of Mayor Alfred Fauver, which
occurred February 29, 1904. Although having, of course, no
official connection with the College, Mr. Fauver had continuously
shown his deep interest in the College, and as mayor of the vil-
lage had repeatedly rendered the officers of the College distinct
and important help.

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ResignatioHS

The only resignatiOTS in the ranks of the administrative offi-
cers of the College have occurred in the Women's Department,
where Dr. Alice H. Luce resigned her position as Dean of
Women to accept the headship of the Willard School for Girls
in Berlin, Germany, and Miss Mary Theodosia Currier,, her posi-
tion as Assistant Dean of the Women's Department, to take up
further study. In Dr. Luce's resignation the College has lost a
powerful personality, and the Department of English Literature
a brilliant teacher. During her administration as Dean a number
of changes were introduced, that can hardly fail to be of essential
service to the College in its larger development. The College
wishes for Dr. Luce the highest success in the important work
to which she has gone. The position filled by Miss Currier is one
always attended with peculiar difficulties, but which she filled
with rare self-forgetfulness and devotion to the interests of the
College.

OrganizcUion

The growth of the College along all lines has made neces-
sary, of course, increasing care in the organization of its work.
The gains made in the organization of the work of the Trustees
have been already referred to. The Treasurer's report has been
widely commended as an almost model document, and further
improvements are introduced into it this year. The inauguration
a few years ago of the separate office of the Secretary of the Col-
lege has amply justified itself by the large increase in attendance
in the College department, which is in no small degree due to the
work of that office. The office of the Secretary greatly relieves
both the President's and the Treasurer's offices, and makes pos-
much more efficient work in both, and has secured a unification
of one whole side of the work of the College not possible before.
This unification is carried still further the present year by bring-
ing the alumni list and record under the charge of this office.

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The election of Professor Bosworth last year as Dean of the
Theological Seminary gave a responsible head to that department
in a sense which had not been hitherto true. And that department
has felt in every way during the past year the added vigor so
made possible. The notable gain in attendance which the Sem-
inary shows the present year is the direct outcome of the policy
of the Dean, and alone amply justifies the creation of the office.
The appointment of Professor Edward A. Miller as Dean of
College Men, in the judgment of the President, will make certain
that the all around interests of the men will be considered in a
way not hitherto possible, and will also insure increasingly cordial
and wholesome relations between the men and the faculty. I do
not expect the full value of this change in administration to be
felt for three or four years; but felt in due time, it certainly
will be.

In the line of further improvement of organization, and in
view of the largely increased numbers of the Women's Depart-
ment, the General Council sent to the Trustees at their semi-annual
meeting in June the following recommendation concerning the
deans of women:

We recommend that the work of the care and oversight of all the
women of the Institution be divided among three deans: Dean of College
and Graduate Women, Dean of Conservatory Women, and Dean of Acad-
emy Women; all the deans to be ex-ofhcio members of the Women's
Board; the Pean of College and Graduate Women to be ex-ofHcio Chair-
man of the Committee of the three deans, and of the Women's Board;
the several deans to be primarily responsible for the administration of
all the regulations of the institution in their respective departments; but
all cases of discipline requiring the action of the Women's Board to be
brought before the entire committee of the deans and action to be rec-
ommended by them to the Board.

The recommendation was accompanied with a brief statement
of the reasons for it, summarized by the President as follows :

I. The number of women in the institution has increased almost one-
third in the last five years, and now aggregates more than a thousand.
No woman can know so large a number of women well enough to under-

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take most wisely the care and oversight and discipline of them. And it is
not desirable that there should be authority beyond the power of intelligent
administration.

2. The final and largest success in such work as that devolving on
a dean depends upon close personal knowledge and sympathy; and we
cannot hope to get the best re§ults, therefore, without bringing the num-
ber of women committed to the care of any one dean within reasonable
limits. The very growth of the College, thus, seems to compel some change
in administration, if we are not to lose ground at the most vital point of
college, as contrasted with university, administration.

3. Only by some greater separation in administration does it seem
possible to secure that sense of immediate responsibility that is so indispen-
sable for the most effective supervision.

4. It seems quite desirable that the Academy women should have a
kind and amount of individual attention which it has not been possible to
give them under the old arrangement; and there might well be a greater
separation of them from the rest of the women of the Institution.

5. The plan recommended is essentially the same as that followed in
the oversight of the young men, and would seem to have something of
the same advantages for the women as for the men.

6. Any needed unity of administration would seem to be secured,
first, through the President as head of all the departments of the Insti-
tution; second, through the fact that the Dean of College and Graduate
Women, as ex-oMcio Chairman of the Committee of Deans, and of the
Women's Board, has power to initiate any needed action; third, through
common regulations established by the Faculty and Women's Board for
all students; fourth, through the necessity of all cases erf discipline com-
ing before the entire Committee of Deans; and fifth, through the fact
that final votes in serious cases must always be passed by the Women's
Board for all departments alike.

It will be seen that the change recommended has been very
naturally and almost necessarily evolved in the growth of the
College.

This recommendation of the Council was adopted by the
Trustees for a trial period of two years, and under this plan the
Women's Department is now organized. To the position of Dean
of College and Graduate Women, Dr. Florence M. Fitch of the
class of 1897, who took her doctorate at the University of Berlin

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in 1903, was elected. To the new position of Dean of Academy
Women, Mrs. Edith Cole Fargo was elected. Mrs. H. W. Wood-
ford was continued as Dean of Conservatory Women, but with
the added authority involved in the new plan of organization.
Nothing has so far occurred to lead the President to question the
wisdom of the reorganization as planned. And for the reasons
already indicated, he anticipates increasingly good results as the
years go on. The several deans have entered upon their work in
a spirit of heartiest co-operation, with a cordiality of response
from the young women under their charge that is most gratifying.

A further specialization forced by the growth of the Collie
has been the appointment of a Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds. This work is at present efficiently done by Professor
C. P. Doolittle, who divides his work between this responsibility
and his teaching in the Conservatory; but gives far the larger
portion of his time to this work of supervision.

The entire organization of the College, both for the officers
and for the Faculty, will find its full statement, of course, in the
final report of the Committee on Codification, to be passed upon
by the Trustees at their present meeting. And such a carefuf
definition of duties can hardly fail to make its own contribution
to the more efficient working of all departments of the College.

Reports

The Treasurer's report shows that we have barely succeeded
in coming through the year without a deficit. This means that
the considerable additions to the income from term bills have all
been required to meet the necessary expenditures for additional
teaching and for other increased expenses ; and the total accumu-
lated deficit, therefore, is left at almost the same figure as last
year. This is a real disappointment, for it was hoped to cut down
this deficit very materially during the year just past. And yet it is
difficult to see how economies could have been wisely carried
further than they have been. We have hardly done more than to
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steadily growing College. In some respects, indeed, we can
hardly be said fairly to have met those needs. The situation shows
how imperative it is that such a further addition to the endow-
ment as was contemplated in the offer of the anonymous Boston
donor should be carried through. We may comfort ourselves
with the reflection that nearly every eastern university came
through the year with a deficit; but that reflection will hardly
meet our own needs.

The report of the Secretary deserves careful study, as giving
very fully in statistical form the various facts concerning the
College which can be so presented. A basis for comparison ex-
tending over a series of years is thus being furnished, that must
make it possible for the College more accurately to understand
the precise circumstances in the midst of which it is working, and
more perfectly to adjust its work to the demands upon it. Par-
ticular attention is called to the valuable section of the report
containing an analysis of the reasons for students not returning
to Oberlin. The inquiry is one so important as to deserve to be
continued and, perhaps, to be extended, by a comparison with the
similar situation in other colleges. Its results, it will be noticed,
do not seem to be, on the whole, derogatory to the College. Other
facts in the report of the Secretary will find their natural place
later in the discussion of other points.

The Librarian's report shows that the library has now cata-
logued over 100,000 volumes, bound and unbound, and has re-
ceived during the last year the largest addition but one ever made
in a single year. The number of volumes added by gift has
already been noted as unusual. At the same time, the compara-
tively small additions that the College is able to make by purchase
must keep the library from performing its highest service, and
quite prevent it, as the Librarian notes, from furnishing any
adequate material for research work on the part of the Faculty.
One of the greatest gains for the library is the appointment, be
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reference librarian. This appointment must greatly increase the
helpfulness of the library to students, and makes it possible for
the most competent help to be available during all the library hours.
The extension of those hours into the evening also registers a
decided advance in the possible efficiency of the library. While
some room has been gained by the moving of the museum, the
report of the Librarian still shows very clearly how greatly over-
crowded the building remains, and how imperative is the need
for a new fire-proof library building. When one thinks that a
College of the size of Bowdoin has just felt it necessary to erect
a $300,000 library building, and remembers how many-sided the
work of a fully equipped modern library is, and how rapidly such
a library must grow, he sees how very modest is the Librarian's
suggestion of the need of a new building to cost at least $100,000
or $125,000. No single contribution of the same amount would
probably mean so much to the life of the entire College as the
erection of a really adequate library building, and its ample en-
dowment. Is it too much to hope that both these things may be
accomplished in connection with the new half-million movement?
The President is in thorough sympathy with the general
policy indicated in the report of the Dean of College Men, and
expects steadily increasing gains from the working out of this
policy. In the long run, all successful administration of the
highest type must go back to personal acquaintance and personal
influence that shall secure some real initiative on the part of the
student himself. College education that is worthy to carry out the
aim of the true college must, thus, more and more seek the hearty
co-operation of the entire student body. The President has there-
fore had long in mind the establishment, in a more or less formal
way, of a kind of student senate, made up of the main elected
officers of the student body, to whom could be brought the ques-
tions which chiefly concern the order and progress of the College.
He is confident that the quality of the student body of Oberlin
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a movement, and to secure distinctly better results in certain
respects than have perhaps ever yet been attained. Certain cir-
cumstances seemed not to make it wise to attempt a direct in-
auguration of such a student senate until the present year. During
the present year it is hoped that definite steps may be taken in
that direction.

As the terms of service of two of the Deatts of Women begin
the present year, and the oflfice of the third, the Dean of Conserv-
atory Women, has its sphere distinctly enlarged, of course none
of the deans are prepared to report concerning work already done.
The ordinary facts concerning the work of the past year will
be found in the report of the Chairman of the Deans, and enough
is said to indicate what I have already noted, that there is no
reason for anticipating anything but high success in the working
out of the new organization of the Women's Department. It
will be noticed that provision has been made for a regular monthly
meeting of the Women's Board, and for the reinstatement of
regular monthly "General Exercises" for the women of all de-
partments. Dr. Fitch will continue to act, as the Dean of Women
has hitherto done, as head of Baldwin Cottage, and Mrs. Fargo
W'ill make her home at Talcott Hall, as the resident head there.

Dr. Fitch's report notes the appointment of Mrs. J. N. Rob-
son as matron of Baldwin Cottage, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs. M. M. Clark, who, after efficient service
here, goes to a similar position at Smith College.

Although Mrs. Elizabeth W. Lord has had for several years
no official connection with the College, the College has rejoiced,
nevertheless, in her very presence in Talcott Hall, and the Presi-
dent records with real regret that Mrs. Lord's health has seemed
to her to make it wise to give up her residence in Talcott Hall
to make her home with her daughter in I>atavia, New York. The
President can only hope that the blessing which she has been in-
strumental in bringing into so many lives may be hers abundantly
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In view of the great increase in the number of women in
the institution in recent years, I have no doubt that it would be a
distinct gain if at least two more halls of residence could be
added to the present equipment of the College, under full College
control. In the present circumstances, the College is able to pro-
vide for too few students, sufficiently to control the entire situa-
tion in the town. But even so, it is difficult to exaggerate the
contribution which has been made to the entire College life by
such an efficient administration as that which, for example, has
characterized Talcott Hall through the many years during which
it has been under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Hatch. The next
best thing to the addition of other College halls of residence
would be, as is suggested by the Chairman of the Deans, the
addition of a few larger boarding houses undertaken by private
individuals, but of such a kind that they could be fully approved
by the College, and affording in the prices charged a considerable
range of accommodations. We scarcely realize how much more
serious and difficult the problem of the supervision of the women
is when they must be so widely scattered as at present is the case
in Oberlin. Our situation in this respect is not different from
that in many of the western universities and colleges, except —
Jttid this is very important — that we do undertake to give more
direct and personal care than many of these other institutions.
I may express my general conviction that we shall serve our con-
stituency best, probably, by a considerable variety in our arrange-
ments. It seems to me likely to prove a real advantage not only
to continue the present Academy house, but possibly to look later
either to a second house of the kind, or another much larger, in
which the Dean of Academy Women might have the opportunity
of immediate personal contact with a considerable number of the
young women in her charge ; and to add to this a similar special
Conservatory hall of residence, and so to provide f9r some special
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attempting to accommodate all in such special buildings. To
attempt that would, I think, be as great a mistake, if not greater,
on the other side. But it does seem to the President that it
would be likely to prove a real advantage to have a few such
centers under the more special supervision of the different de-
partments, allowing the more particular and careful supervision
that many parents would desire for their daughters. It seems to
the President, also, that the establishment of one or more board-
ing houses where only young women were admitted, might also
prove an advantage. The correspondence with students who have
left Oberlin indicates the lack of such accommodations as one
of the reasons for dissatisfaction. And with the completest
belief in co-education, there may well be circumstances of various
kinds which would make such an entirely separate provision in
some of the halls of residence wholly desirable. In a word, I
believe that the best policy of an institution so large as Oberlin,
is to seek to provide in the most varied way for the needs of its
students, giving large choice as to the special arrangements for
rooming and boarding. It is perhaps worth noting, besides, that
no doubt, in so large a body of students as ours, there are even
many cases where the circumstances are such that it is distinctly
better for the student to find his place in a quiet home where there
are not more than three or four other students. Some of Oberlin's
best work for its students in other years, of an indirect kind, has
been done through just such quiet homes. And it is at least
certain that Oberlin should never fail to provide a considerable
number of places where adequate accommodation can be fur-
nished at ver}' reasonable rates. The College has certainly given
a demonstration of the possibilities in this direction in the ad-
mirable administration of Stewart Hall the past year.

The report of the Dean of the Theological Seminary is a most
impressive presentation of two things : the remarkable gain made
in the enrolment of the Seminary at the beginning of the present
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for the Seminary, if this .gain is to be maintained and increased,
as may easily be the case. The work done in the Seminary is of
the very highest quality, and is manifestly being increasingly
appreciated by students looking to the ministry. If we do not
maintain and even increase our attendance in this department,
it will be due simply to the fact that we are not able to offer even
absolutely necessary aid in return for useful work done. The
Seminary does not pretend to compete with some of the other
seminaries in the amount of aid offered, and it certainly ought
not to suffer for lack of the comparatively small amount needed
for this work. The situation set forth in Professor Swing's state-
ment of last year concerning the Seminary should also not be
forgotten, nor the fact that almost no addition of any considerable
amount has been made to the resources of the Seminary for many
years. I doubt if any seminary in the country can show a more
economical administration of its funds. But the really painful
economies now necessitated seriously interfere with the most
efficient work on the part of the Faculty. The time has certainly
come for a decided forward movement in this department; a
movement that the present splendid work and progress of the
Seminary richly deserve. I recommend, therefore, that the Sem-
inary Faculty be authorized to enter upon an active canvass for
the increase of the endowment of that department.

The report of the Principal of the Academy indicates a very
encouraging gain in attendance, and shows, also, a considerably
larger enrolment of boys than of girls. It is plain that the
changes made in the courses, equipment and methods of the
Academy, as recommended both by the Academy Faculty and by
the Trustee Committee, have borne fruit, and there seems to be
no reason why we may not expect a further gain in attendance.
The teaching force of the Academy is sufficient to allow some
further gain in attendance with almost no increase of expense.
A beginning has been made during the past year in the attempt
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Academy. A diploma was given for the first time; though it
should be noted that the number of students taking this diploma
is considerably less than the actual number prepared by the
Academy for College. The Academy suffers, no doubt, con-
siderably in esprit de corps by the over-shadowing presence of the
College, and its graduation exercises have therefore naturally
suffered. Anything that can be done to cultivate a distinct
Academy spirit and increase the pride of the Academy students
in their own department is a clear gain. And it can hardly be
doubted that the separation of the Academy athletics has been
here a distinct help. Further steps might profitably be taken in
this direction.

The report of the Director of the Conservatory of Music
shows that the Conservatory has had a year of great prosperity.
Professor Morrison carries the responsibility of the Directorship
with manifest ease, and yet with a clear insight and a certain sure-
ness of touch that give promise of steady progress in the Con-
servatory's great work. The Conservatory has made two great
material gains during the year: the securing of a very fine and
satisfactory organ for Warner Concert Hall, and the enlargement
of that hall for the better accommodation both of the organ and
of the audiences which desire to hear the notable series of artists'
recitals which the Conservatory is steadily offering. This en-
largement of the Concert Hall, it will be noted, is still under way.
The past year has also been marked by the giving for the first
time of the degree of Bachelor of Music, which means that those
who receive it have not only completed the full work required for
graduation from the Conservatory, but have also met the require-
ments for admission to College. A pretty careful study of the
facts, made by the Dean of Conservatory Women during the past
year, indicates the gratifying fact that, aside from those who
might be called day pupils, just about three-fourths of the entire
enrolment of women have had at least three years of high school
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tory to make at once a moderate literary requirement for admis-
sion, that might be later gradually raised, definite exception being
made in the case of students of unusual musical promise whom it
might be desirable to bring to the Conservatory early in their
musical study, and who could carry some work in the Academy
along with partial musical work. The President ventures, there-
fore, to suggest that in his opinion nothing would do more to
strengthen still further the already splendid reputation of the
Conservatory among schools of music than its ability to announce
that all its students had reached a certain literary standard, and
that the great majority were of college rank. For if music is
indeed an art and not a matter of mere mechanical technique, it
must require interpretive power that depends upon considerable
breadth of culture outside mere musical lines. And if, moreover,
the Conservatory is to be able to meet with increasing satisfac-
tion the demands upon it for directors of schools of music, and
prominent instructors in such schools, it needs to be able more
and more to send out men and women broadly as well as musically
cultivated. There is no special gain to the Conservatory in
simply increasing the number of students indifferent either in
general scholarship or in musical promise. In a department where
the work must be so largely individual, such an increase simply
means the necessary enlargement of the Faculty, and that means
increasing difficulty in keeping the Faculty of the same high
rank. The careful study of the actual situation, which has gone
on for the past two years, seems to indicate that the setting up of
a definite standard of admission to the Conservatory would in
almost no case cut off a student of superior musical promise. At
the same time — and the consideration is important — the problem
of the supervision and discipline of the women would be quite
certainly simplified, and possibly some gain made in the proportion
of men to the whole body of Conservatory students. It must be,
no doubt, true that in any school of music the proportion of
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figures for the last twelve years indicate that the ratio of women
to men has remained pretty constantly about six to one ; the per-
centage of men for the last year being exactly 16.7. Doubt-
less it cannot be certainly asserted that the introduction of a
definite standard of admission would affect the proportion of
men and women; but I suspect that with such a standard the
disproportion would not be quite so great as at present. It seems
to the President, also, to be a question well worth raising by
the Conservatory Faculty, whether there are any possible changes
or additions which might attract more men to the Conservatory.

The report of the Chairman of the Summer School shows,
also, a gratifying increase in attendance, especially on the part of
students of high grade. The courses intended to be especially
attractive to teachers, it will be noted, have not quite paid for
themselves this first year. The School has, consequently, been
obliged to draw in part upon the fund guaranteed by the vote of
the Trustees. But the success of these courses this first year
certainly gives promise that within the three years guaranteed by
the Trustees the courses will be able to stand upon their own feet.
Oberlin ought certainly to be doing something, in connection with
the Summer School, to furnish work of high grade to the teachers
of at least this part of the State.

The reports of the Directors of the Men's and Women's
Gymnasiums make clear at once how important is the work being
done in this department of the work of the College. The very
large proportion of men who, without requirement, are using the
g)rmnasium is particularly notable. It is difficult to see how better
results could possibly be expected. It will be seen that the gym-
nasium is used by so many as to indicate the immediate need of
the additional room which would be afforded by completing the
gymnasium according to its original plan. We should hardly
have anticipated that this demand would come so early. In view
of this situation among the men, it can be somewhat realized how
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needs of the even larger number of women. Only a comparatively
small proportion of the women can be accommodated at all at
their gymnasium, and very many who would gladly avail them-
selves of the opportunities of the gymnasium we are obliged to
turn away. These simple facts make a plea for a new women's
gymnasium about as strong as it is possible to make it. And
they show, at the same time, the eminent desirability of extending
as far as possible the opportunities which the Gymnasium and
Field Association seeks to offer. The growth in the Teachers'
Course in Physical Training for Women should also be noted, as
well as the Director's suggestion that it may be necessary even to
cut down the number which can be admitted to that course, unless
larger accommodations can be furnished in the gymnasium build-
ing. The important and influential work which the College is
doing through this course in furnishing directors of women's
gymnasiums in many places throughout the country is not to be
overlooked. The College has secured an enviable reputation in
this direction, and it would be a great pity to have the work in
any way hampered.

In this connection it is a pleasure to call attention to the
action recently taken by the General Faculty, formally undertaking
a similar course for the preparation of directors of men's gym-
nasiums. The College has already been furnishing for some time
a number of such directors, and everything seems now favorable
for the inauguration of a course for men parallel to that already
given to the women. The Trustees are asked to approve this
action at the coming meeting. As this new course can be under-
taken practically without additional expense, and as the College
has already an established reputation for ability to furnish com-
petent directors, it would seem a real pity that the formal en-
trance upon this work should be longer deferred. The favorable
time to establish such a course is the present time; if it were
deferred for even two or three years, we should doubtless lose
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creasingly recognized, and one which some other institution is
certain to meet if we do not.

The report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
will be referred to in the discussion of the material gains of the
year.

The entire policy of the President looks to increasing con-
ference among the administrative officers, and expects on the part
of the teachers of all departments, together with definite depart-
mental esprit de corps', a growing sense of the unity of the entire
work. And the President takes pleasure in recognizing the spirit
of trust and of close and harmonious co-operation which seems
to him in general to pervade the entire work of the administrative
officers.

The Work of the President

The President's work almost necessarily includes teaching,
general executive and financial work, the constant study of the
greater and smaller needs and possibilities of the College as a
whole, and considerable work of various kinds in the outside
representation of the College. Where all parts of the work press,
it is not always easy to know how wisely to divide one's time.
On every side of the work considerable gains seem possible if
more time could be given. It still seems hardly possible, for the
present, for the President to drop any one of the three courses
which he has been carrying in his teaching, with the help of Dr.
Fitch and Professor Bosworth. It is a rather serious amount of
teaching for an executive officer to assume, but he has not felt
that he could as yet conscientiously excuse himself from any part
of it. The courses all seem too important for him to abandon
any of them at present. His teaching, therefore, continues in all
respects as last year. The President does not regard it as a hin-
drance to his presidential work, but rather an important part of
it that he should do a certain amount of teaching. But it may be
questioned whether he is not attempting more in this direction
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since his teaching is really in two departments of study. The
President has felt justified in continuing to carry on his regular
Sunday Bible class, because it has seemed to afford perhaps his
best opportunity deeply to affect the inner life of the College.
But to this work are necessarily sacrificed many outside oppor-
tunities for speaking.

As the general work of the College has become steadily
better organized during the two years, as has been already indi-
cated, considerable relief has come in several directions ; but the
work still to be done in lines already undertaken, and in other
lines that should be undertaken, keeps far in advance of any
possible present relief.

In the work of outside representation of the College, the
President has spoken something more than a hundred times
during the year, aside from the regular home work. This work
has been divided among alumni gatherings, universities and col-
leges, high schools, educational meetings and important Church
gatherings, and has involved, besides, numerous general addresses,
lectures, and sermons. The most important of these outside en-
gagements were perhaps the work as university preacher at the
University of Chicago for two Sundays and the intervening week ;
a series of five lectures on the Sermon on the Mount, given at the
First Congregational Church at Detroit and at the Frankfort
Summer Assembly; eight lectures on the practical bearings of
psychology, given at the Summer School of Theology at Evans-
ton, Illinois; the address on The Fundamental Nature of Re-
ligion, given in the Department of Religion at the Congress of
Arts and Science at the St. Louis Exposition; and addresses at
the meetings of the American Board at Grinnell, Iowa, and at the
National Council of Congregational Churches at Des Moines. In
connection with the lectures at the Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston, was finally completed the manuscript of a volume on
the practical bearings of psycholog}', that has been in hand for
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President is that of a volume of addresses under the title, Per-
sonal and Ideal Elements in Education, which was intended to
include the more important educational and religious addresses
of the last three or four years. Another line of opportunity, that
has seemed to prove somewhat valuable, was opened by The Con-
gregaiionalist in their invitation to conduct a new department
under the title of "The Professor's Chair," dealing with philosoph-
ical, theological, and religious questions. Some parts of this
work may seem to be somewhat aside from the direct work of
the President's office, but the President is so confident that an
executive must compel himself to do some really new intellectual
work, if he is to keep himself at his best even in his executive
duties, that he has not only felt justified in taking on some such
new work, but rather bound to assume a certain amount of it, for
his own intellectual salvation and the ultimate fruitfulness of
his more immediate college labors.

Quite a little direct financial work has been undertaken that
has not as yet borne special fruit. But the President supposes
that his most important contribution in this line is to be made
in the more indirect way of winning interest and confidence in
the College. He conceives his first duty to be that of making
the College in the fullest possible sense worthy of large and
generous gifts, and in helping a larger number of men to believe
that this is the case. In this larger sense he trusts that his out-
side work has not been wholly unavailing.

FACULTY

Death of Professor Charles Henry Churchill

Professor Charles Henry Churchill, our only professor
emeritus, died in Seattle, Washington, January 19, 1904, and
was buried in Oberlin January 26. At the memorial services
Professor Albert A. Wright gave a sketch of Professor Church-
ill's life. Professor Bosworth spoke of his personality, and it fell
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tribution to the Oberlin life. It is difficult, in such a report as
this, to give any adequate estimate of the really very large con-
tribution made by Professor Churchill to the life of the College
and community. In the first place, he contributed to the Oberlin
life his own unique personality. Surrounded as he was by many
strong men, he still remained always quite himself, and combined
many qualities not usually combined. Genial, teachable, loving,
earnest, he was at the same time thoroughly honest, individual,
and independent. He could be genial, and still firm in his own
view; singularly loving, but eminently sensible; without a trace
of maudlin sentimentality, but disliking it very much, especially
when directed toward himself. He contributed, too, I think—
and it was a large contribution — his balanced temperament, his
equable temper, and steady, unhurried mode of work, along with
undeniable earnestness. Unique, rarely balanced, of poetic in-
sight, of quite unusual breadth, a master of explanation, and
absolutely willing to serve as a disciple of Christ, he had, and he
used, a large opportunity and contributed distinctly, as few others
have done, to the breadth, to the richness, to the sanity, and to
the interest of the Oberlin life.

Resignations
Dr. Julius August Bewer resigned his position, after two
years of brilliant teaching, as Professor of the Old Testament
Language and Literature, to accept a similar position with his
alma mater, Union Theological Seminary. Mr. Albert Edward
Gubelmann resigned as Instructor in German to accept partial
work in teaching in Yale University, and to continue his studies
for the doctorate. Mr. Wilfred Hobson Sherk resigned his
position as Tutor in Mathematics in Oberlin Academy to con-
tinue his mathematical study at the University of Chicago. Mr.
Seeley Kelley Tompkins resigned his tutorship in Declamation in
Oberlin Academy to accept a more favorable appointment in the
Academy of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Mr. Dudley
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to continue his study in the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in New York. Mr. Charles Sutphin Pendleton, Tutor in English
Composition in Oberlin Academy, resigned to take up other
work. Mr. Carl A. Zeller resigned his position as Assistant in
the Physical Laboratory to accept the headship of the physics de-
partment of the Rayen High School at Youngstown, Ohio. The
work in all these cases was carried with success, and the best
wishes of the College attend these teachers in their new tasks.
The resignations of Dr. Alice Hanson Luce as Dean of the
Women's Department, and of Miss Mary Theodosia Currier as
Assistant Dean of the Women's Department, have already been
mentioned.

Absence on Leave

In addition to these resignations, by vote of the Trustees
November i8, 1903, leave of absence was granted for one year
to Mr. Lynds Jones, Instructor in Zoology, to continue his studies
at the University of Chicago. By a similar vote June 20, 1904,
leave of absence for two years was granted to Miss Mary Eleanor
Barrows, Instructor in English, to continue, her studies in Yale
University, and for one year to Miss Alice Chipman McDaniels,
Instructor in German in Oberlin Academy, to continue her study
abroad. Mrs. Maud Tucker Doolittle, Teacher of Pianoforte, in
the Conservatory of Music, is also to spend the year in further
study at Berlin.

For the year 1903-1904, leave of absence was granted, by
vote of the Trustees, to five members of the Faculty : Mr. Fred-
erick Anderegg, Professor of Mathematics; Miss Arietta Maria
Abbott, Professor of German; Mr. William Jasper Horner, In-
structor in Singing and Public School Music; Mr. George Carl
Hastings, Instructor in Pianoforte and Organ, and Mr. Orville
Alvin Lindquist, Teacher of Pianoforte. Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston,
Professor of Mediaeval History, was also granted leave of absence
for the first semester of the year. Mr. Hastings continues his
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of the year to their work. Professor Anderegg spent the year
chiefly in study at the University of Berne, presenting in connec-
tion with it several pieces of original work in the mathematical
seminar of the University. Professor Abbott and Mr. Homer
studied at Berlin, and Mr. Lindquist at Leipsic. Mrs. Johnston's
plan for travel and study in Sicily and Egypt was carried out as
contemplated. The College is to be congratulated that it has
been possible to continue to so large an extent its policy of grant-
ing occasional leave of absence, with continuance of salary, to
instructors who have held the rank of professor for ten years.
Probably in no other way, by the same expenditure, can so much
be accomplished for the continual freshening of the teaching force.
Besides these absences during the college year, several of
the Faculty were again abroad for travel or study for the entire
vacation: Professor Charles Beebe Martin, Professor of Greek
and Greek Archaeology; Professor John Taylor Shaw, Associate
Professor of Latin ; Mr. Louis Eleazer Lord, Instructor in Latin
and Greek, and Mr. Ernest Sutherland Bates, Instructor in Eng-
lish Composition. Dr. Delphine Hanna, Director of the Women's
Gymnasium, and Mr. Edward Alanson Miller, Dean of College
Men and Professor of Pedagogy, were also away for study during
the Summer vacation — Dr. Hanna at the Harvard Medical School,
and Professor Miller at the University of Chicago.

Appointments
A complete list of the appointments falling within the year
covered by the report follows:

Confirmed at the Annual Meeting, November i8, 1903.

Earl Foote Adams, as Instructor in Physics in Oberlin Academy,
change of title.

Carl A. Zeller, as Assistant in the Physical Laboratory, for one year,
partial work, new appointment.

Confirmed at the Semi-Annual Meeting, June 20, 1904.
(To begin with the College year 1904-05.)

Charles Nelson Cole, as permanent full Professor of the Latin Lan-
guage and Literature.

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Kemper Fullerton, as Professor of the Old Testament Language and
Literature in the Oberlin Theological Seminary, for two years, new ap-
pointment. •

William DeWeese Cairns, as Associate Professor of Mathematics,
change of title.

Miss Florence Mary Fitch, as Dean of College and Graduate Women,
and Associate Professor of Philosophy, for two years, new appointment
as Dean and change of title.

Mrs. Edith Cole Fargo, as Dean of Academy Women, for two years,
new appointment.

William Jasper Horner, as Instructor in Singing in Oberlin Conser-
vatory of Music, for two years, re-appointment.

Orville Alvin Lindquist, as Instructor in Pianoforte in Oberlin Con-
servatory of Music, for two years, re-appointment.

William Eugene Mosher, as Instructor in German, for two years,
new appointment.

Harry James Smith, as Instructor in English Composition, for two
years, new appointment.

Lila Julia Wickwire, as Instructor in Physical Training, for one year,
change of title, re-appointment.

Mrs. Alice Mead Swing, as Tutor in German in Oberlin Academy,
for one year, partial work, re-appointment.

Mrs. Mary Taylor Cowdery, as Tutor in French in Oberlin Academy,
for one year, re-appointment.

Henry Chester Tracy, as Tutor in Botany and Zoology in Oberlin
Academy, for one year, re-appointment.

Edward James Moore, as Tutor in Mathematics in Oberlin Academy,
for one year, re-appointment.

Russell Parsons Jameson, as Tutor in Declamation in Oberlin Acad-
emy, Teacher in the Men's Gymnasium, and Academy Athletic Coach, for
one year, new appointment.

Roy Vernon Hill, as Tutor in Mathematics in Oberlin Academy, for
one year, new appointment.

Mrs. Antoinette Beard Harroun, as Tutor in German in Oberlin Acad-
emy, for one year, new appointment.

John Ebenezer Wirkler. as Tutor in History in Oberlin Academy, for
one year, new appointment.

Henry S. Huntington, Jr., as Tutor in English in Oberlin Academy, for
one year, new appointment.

William Cleland Clancy, as Teacher in Men's Gymnasium, for one
year (one class), new appointment.

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Earl Foote Adams, as Teacher in Men's Gymnasium, for one year,
partial work, re-appointment.

Charles Hulburd Burr, as Assistant in Physics, for one year, re-ap-
pointment.

James Seymour Luckey, as Assistant in Physics and to take charge
of two sections of the Freshman Mathematics, for one year, new appoint-
ment.

Robert Logan Baird, as Assistant in Zoology and Geology, for one
year, re-appointment.

William Henry Chapin, as Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, for
one year, re-appointment.

Alma Gracey Stokey, as Assistant in Botany, for one year, re-appoint-
ment.

Miss Antoinette Putnam Metcalf, as Reference Librarian, for two
years, new appointment.

Confirmed by the Prudential Committee, August p, igo4.

Miss Flora Bridges, as Secretary to the President, for one year, new
appointment.

Confirmed by the Prudential Committee, October 7, J904.

Miss Grace Tenney, to teach one division of first year German for
the first semester of 1904-05.

The list of appointments includes four well-deserved pro-
motions: those of Mr. Charles Nelson Cole from Associate Pro-
fessor of the Latin Language and Literature to permanent full
Professor in the same department; of Dr. Florence Mary
Fitch from Secretary to the President and Instructor in Philos-
ophy, to Dean of College and Graduate Women and Associate
Professor of Philosophy; of Mr. William DeWeese Cairns from
Instructor in Mathematics to Associate Professor of Mathematics ;
of Miss Lila Julia Wickwire from Teacher in the Women's Gym-
nasium to Instructor in Physical Training.

The change in the general administration of the Women'^
Department, indicated by Dr. Fitch's title, has been already ex-
plained. With this appointment is naturally connected that of
Mrs. Edith Cole Fargo as Dean of Academy Women. While
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administrative force of the Women's Department, as Mrs. Fargo
simply replaces, in that respect. Miss Mary Theodosia Currier.
The distinct responsibility for the Academy women, however, is
one of the changes involved in the reorganization of the Women's
Department. Dr. Fitch continues her assistance of the President
in his teaching, and in this particularly difficult position of associ-
ate teacher has attained a very decided success. She also takes up,
with the present year, the very important required freshman
course in English Bible, which Professor Bosworth felt that he
ought not longer to carry. The work which Dr. Fitch lays down
as Secretary to the President is taken by Miss Flora Bridges, A.
B. Oberlin College 1887, A. M. 1888, who, for reasons of health,
comes from her important position as Dean of Women in Yank-
ton College, Yankton, South Dakota. The College is fortunate in
securing for even so short a time in this work the services of an
experienced teacher and administrator.

Professor Kemper Fullerton comes to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Dr. Julius August Bewer. Professor Ful-
lerton brings to us the full fruit of his study in Princeton College,
Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Berlin, and
of thirteen years of rare success in teaching and of the most vital
and delightful personal relations in Lane Theological Seminary.
The College has every reason to congratulate itself upon this ap-
pointment. Mr. Homer and Mr. Lindquist return to their teach-
ing in the Conservatory after the year's leave of absence already
noted. The appointment of Mr. William Eugene Mosher as
Instructor in German, while it appears technically as a new
appointment, is not strictly to be so regarded, as Mr. Mosher
went to his two years of European study from three years of
teaching in the Academy. Mr. Mosher's work abroad has been
of the highest quality, and he returns with a well-earned doctorate
from the University of Halle. The appointment of Mr. Mosher
and the return of Professor Abbott bring the work of the Ger-
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classes in German have been so largely elected the present year
that it has been necessary to ask Mrs. Swing again to take some
extra teaching in German, and to appoint Miss Grace Tenney, of
the class of 1899, to take one division of first-year German. It
is not improbable that the German classes are somewhat unusu-
ally large the present year, because full work in German was
not offered last year, in the absence of the head of the department.
But, on the other hand, the present increase may continue perma-
nent. In that case a regular additional appointment would be
called for. The possibility is discussed in a later extract from
Professor Abbott's report. The vacancy caused by the leave of
absence of Miss Mary Eleanor Barrows was filled by the appoint-
ment of Mr. Harry James Smith, a graduate of Williams College,
who comes to us after experience as an assistant at Williams, and
from graduate work in Harvard University.

The appointments of Mr. Russell Parsons Jameson, of the
class of 1900, of Mr. Roy Vernon Hill, of the class of 1902, of
Mr. John Ebenezer Wirkler, of the class of 1903, A. M. 1904,
and of Mr. Henry S. Huntington, Jr., a graduate of Yale Uni-
versity, also do not mean enlargement of the teaching force ; they
are appointed to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations re-
spectively of Mr. Seeley Kelley Tompkins, Mr. Wilfred Hobson
Sherk, Mr. Dudley Billings Reed, and Mr. Charles Sutphin
Pendleton. The work done by Mr. Reed as Academy coach is
now taken by Mr. Jameson. Mrs. Antoinette Beard Harroun was
appointed to take the place of Miss Alice Chipman McDaniels,
during the latter's leave of absence. Mr. James Seymour Luckey
takes Mr. Carl A. Zeller's place as Assistant in the Physical Lab-
oratory, and in addition, is to take charge, it will be noted, of
two of the increased number of sections of freshman mathematics
required by the large growth in that class. Mr. Luckey, although
a member of the class of 1904, has had extended and successful
experience in teaching, so that he does not bring to his freshman
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one section of freshman mathematics, has just come from two
years of successful work in the High School at Jamestown, New
York. The appointment of Miss Antoinette Putnam Metcalf
has already been noted in connection with the Librarian's report,
as indicating a significant advance in the work of the Library.
The appointment of Mr. William Qeland Qancy is required on
account of the large number of men electing work at the gym-
nasium. The appointment of Miss Lora D. Fowler, of the physi-
cal training class of 1900, to give a part of her time to the super-
vision of public school work in gymnastics, will increase the
practical efficiency of the Teachers' Course in Physical Training.

Organisation

The alumni may be. interested in a further word concerning
the inner organization of the College. The internal work of the
College is carried on through an organization of faculties and
councils, with numerous standing committees. The General Fac-
ulty is made up of all professors, associate and assistant pro-
fessors, and instructors of the Theological Seminary, the College,
and the Academy, and all full professors of the Conservatory of
Music. The permanent full professors in each department con-
stitute the Council of that department. The councils in each
case have in charge all matters of appointment and budget, and
recommendations from department councils pass through the
General Council to the Trustees. The standing committees of
the councils and faculties are intended to make certain that every
side of the internal work of the College is regularly looked after,
and, at the same time, to distribute as equably as may be this
committee work among the various members of the Faculty.
This very democratic arrangement has secured to the College two
things of very great value: In the first place, through frequent
and free discussion, a far ji^^reater unification of the entire teach-
ing force than could be in any other way attained; and in the
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ferent men coming from different institutions and environments.

The full list of committees of the Faculty, as elected for the
year 1904-05, is printed elsewhere in the report, as showing the
complete organization of the Faculty, and giving information
which may occasionally be of value both to the Board of Trustees
and to the alumni. The wide range of interests for which the
Faculty must care is also clearly shown in this outline of its com-
mittee organization. The Faculty committees are now elected just
before the meeting of the Board of Trustees, so that the commit-
tees of the two bodies have the same term of service. The joint
committees of the Trustees and the Faculty on Endowment, and
New Buildings, have in some cases been enlarged since the last
report, and are elsewhere reprinted, with the additional names,
for convenience of reference.

The President's dinner to the Faculty was given this year on
February 5, and proved again a pleasant reminder of both the
unity and the many-sidedness of the work in which we are all
engaged.

Reports

The reports of the individual professors, taken up in the
order of academic seniority, contain numerous items of interest
to the Trustees and the constituency of the College. Mrs. John-
ston, Professor of Mediaeval History and of Art, calls attention to
the increasing satisfaction with which her work is done, on ac-
count of the removal of her classes from the crowded room in
Peters Hall to the first floor of Sturges Hall. The change makes
it possible better to care for and to exhibit the illustrative material
in her classes in Art, and at the same time to admit to her lectures
a considerable number from the community who could not be so
well accommodated before. This is certainly, as Mrs. Johnston
implies, a legitimate, valuable, and inexpensive form of university
extension work. The concluding words of the report of Mrs.
Johnston, who now out-ranks us all in seniority of service, will
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**In closing this report, I am moved to say that, with a background
of thirty-four years of observation and experience, the present outlook
of our College seems to me very hopeful. The wise and careful manage-
ment of our finances, the vigorous and progressive administration in all
departments, the harmony and good cheer in the Faculty, are an earn-
est of future growth and usefulness."

A similar note is struck by Professor Albert A. Wright, in
his report for the Departments of Geology and Zoology, who be-
gins by saying : "Never in my work have I had more successful
or enjoyable classes than in 1903-04. In several cases the inspir-
ing influence of a few superior students upon the whole class
was advantageously illustrated. The College was generous to the
department both this year and last in increasing the number of
microscopes, so that now sections of thirty students can work at
the same time with essentially equal outfits." On account of the
leave of absence of Mr. Lynds Jones, a part of his classes will
be omitted for the year. The other part will be carried by Mr.
Baird, whose work in the zoological laboratory has been a distinct
gain for the department.

The following two paragraphs from Professor Wright's re-
port ought certainly to be presented entire. It is hard to make
the appeal for a new building more emphatic than it is made by
the simple presentation of the facts these paragraphs contain :

"The college museum was removed during the summer vacation to
Bradley Auditorium in the third story of Peters Hall. All the cases but
three were removed from the library building, and the specimens which
had been previously scattered in various corners, attics, and cellars of
other buildings were brought together in Peters Hall. Five weeks of
my own time were spent in the removal and partial re-arrangement of the
material in its new position, but much more work will be necessary be-
fore it can bear critical inspection, or be profitably opened to the public.
It is a great improvement to have the museum all together in a light
and dry place, even though the cases are far too few to protect and display
it all The laboratories and teaching rooms of the department must still
remain in the library and chemical buildings, however, and it will be seen
that the use of the collection for the instruction of students will be at-
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"We possess a very valuable museum in Zoology, Geology and the re-
lated sciences. Constant inquiries are made for it by visitors and friends
of the College. It is a stimulus to students, indispensable in instruction,
and from its richness in several departments it has been visited by emi-
nent scientists from this country and from abroad, the last being Dr. A.
Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology in the British Museum, author of
the four volume catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum, who
was drawn here this summer by the fine collection of fish remains that
were taken from the shales of this county, and within a few miles of
Oberlin. The urgent need of a building planned for the purpose, which
will adequately protect and exhibit our collections, and contain the teach-
ing and work rooms of the departments involved, is evident to every one
who views the situation.**

Two paragraphs are taken from the report of the Professor
of the Harmony of Science and Revelation, Professor G. Fred-
erick Wright :

"My chief scientific publication during the year has been a lengthy
paper in the American Geologist (Vol. XXXIII, April, 1904, pp. 20S-222),
on 'Evidence of the Agency of Water in the Distribution of the Loess
in the Missouri Valley.* This is the result of very important observa-
tions in the field during 1903, bringing to light the startling fact that dur-
ing the closing stages of the Glacial Period the Missouri River was for
some time subject to annual floods two hundred feet in depth.

"Much of my time has been taken in preparing my course of Stone
Lectures, to be given in Princeton in November of this year, on The
Historical Character of the Old Testament,* in which I shall endeavor to
shed, on many narratives in the Pentateuch, the light which I have ob-
tained from my extended geological observations, and which I have been
long delayed in getting adequately before the general public.**

The report of Professor Alhert H. Currier, of the Chair of
Homiletics in the Theological Seminary, makes it clear that he
is steadily taking pains to increase the value and interest of his
courses in one of the subjects which it is most difficult to teach.
He has made several notable additions during the past year to
his previous lectures.

The Professor of History, Professor Lyman Bronson Hall,
records his satisfaction that after so many years of planning and
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historical teaching. Professor Hall's rather unique course in
Current Events has proved increasingly popular and valuable the
past year. While grateful for the liberality of the Trustees and
the Library Committee in their appropriation, he still feels that
the great hindrances to his work are "the lack of books, espe-
cially the lack of promptness in securing the best new books,
and the lack of duplicates of many of the most useful historical
works in the library, and the lack of maps, especially detailed
and large scale maps, of England and America."

Professor Frank Fanning Jewett, of the Department of
Chemistry, notes two special gains in that department during the
past year : the appointment of Mr. W. H. Chapin to give his full
time as Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, and the enlarge-
ment of the work of that department by the introduction of a
course in electro-chemistry. The addition of Mr. Chapin to the
teaching force makes it possible to keep the laboratory open from
morning till evening, and not, as hitherto, at a few appointed
periods of time. Concerning the course in electro-chemistry. Pro-
fessor Jewett says :

"Electricity is now so important an agent in the carrying on of many
chemical analyses, as well as in the commercial production of so many
and so important chemicals, that it can no longer be neglected in such a
course of chemical instruction as we are qualified to give our students.
It is probable that the department will need to ask for assistance in the
more complete equipment of the electro-chemical laboratory, which has
just been opened."

For the Department of Greek, Professor Charles Beebe Mar-
tin reports that "the most important feature of the year was the
establishment of a course in elementary Greek, which in one year
prepares for the Greek of the freshman year. This course was
elected by twenty, fifteen of whom completed satisfactorily the
work of the year.'* It may be worth noting, incidentally, that
the influence of the Rhodes scholarships, on account of the
entrance requirements at Oxford University, seems likely to be
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ican colleges, as well as of the Latin and Mathematics. It is
much to be desired that some regular appropriation should be
made for greatly increasing the available material for the work
in classical archaeology. The small fees which can with any jus-
tice be charged in such courses, and the receipts from an occa-
sional Art Exhibition, are quite too precarious to permit the really
needed growth; though truly remarkable results have been
attained through the enthusiasm of the teachers interested. Pro-
fessor Martin shares the conviction of the Librarian, of the need
of larger appropriations for books for the more immediate use of
instructors.

During the absence of the head of the department, Professor
Frederick Anderegg, the Department of Mathematics was in
charge of Associate Professor William DeWeese Cairns. On
account of Professor Anderegg's absence, the full elective work
of the department was not offered ; but those elective courses most
important for continuing the higher elective work of the present
year were given. Professor Cairns recommends that the course
in Mechanical Drawing and Descriptive Geometry, and that in
Surveying, be given each year, instead of alternate years, as at
present, for two reasons : "More students now apply for the work
than can be cared for with the efficiency that is desirable, and it
is often the case that a student who comes just for a year does
not find the particular course that he wishes to elect, offered that
year." He adds : ,

"The appropriation for library purposes was devoted to the pur-
chase of Die Encyklopddie der Maihematischen Wissenschaften, which
collates under the supervision of the most eminent mathematicians the
chief results of modem mathematics. The money voted for the purchase
of surveying instruments has given a transit, a compass, two levels, and
some smaller apparatus; it supplies a much-needed addition to the equip-
ment."

The report of Dr. Fred Eugene Leonard as Professor of
Physiology and Physical Training covers a field less familiar than
that of most of the departments, and may perhaps well be given

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this year, on that account, entire. It throws, also, an important •
side light on the way in which Oberlin's influence is extending
in this matter of physical training :

"During the first semester of the year 1903-04 I gave courses in human
anatomy, advanced gymnastics (physical training 3), the theory of physi-
cal training, and the history of physical training — a total of nine hours
a week in the class room or on the gymnasium floor; and in the second
semester courses in physiolojjy and hygiene, advanced gymnastics (phy-
sical training 4), and the literature of physical training— a total of ten
hours. From the end of November until the Easter recess I also con-
ducted a training class for teachers and squad leaders in the Men's Gym-
nasium, meeting them one hour a week for practice, and gave during the
winter a course of twelve lessons in fencing to juniors and seniors in
the Teachers' Course, and another of twenty lessons (ten to each class)
in exercises on apparatus to these same young women in the spring.
Physical examinations occupied ten hours a week throughout the first
semester, and were given at intervals during the second. An office hour
was kept between four and five o'clock daily, except on Saturdays.

"On the afternoon of January 30th I read a paper on 'Physical Train-
ing in the Schools of Germany and Sweden' before members of the Cleve-
land Physical Education Association, and this was afterwards published
in the Jiine and July numbers of Mind and Body. Dr. Hanna and I were
both invited to join, as charter members, in the formation of an 'Amer-
ican Society for Research in Physical Education.* Dr. Hanna is one of
two women in the list of twenty-two members, and I have been made a
member of the Executive Committee* for three years. At the first meet-
ing of the Society, held in Boston, April ist and 2d, we were both present,
and I presented a paper on *The Beginnings of Modern Physical Training
in Europe,* which appears in the June number of the American Physical
Education Review, I have also made regular contributions to the de-
partments of Bibliography and News Notes in the same Review, as for
several years past, assuming responsibility for the contents of four Ger-
man periodicals.

"Last spring, in view of repeated requests from those in charge of
the Department of Physical Training at the St. Louis Exposition, it seemed
best to send on something illustrating and describing the work done for
men in Oberlin College. Two large framed sheets were therefore prepared
in April, one of them containing views of Warner Gymnasium and the
athletic fields, and the other floor plans of the building with printed text
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some facts regarding our facilities for athletics and our method of control.
Much of the material used had already appeared in the pamphlet published
by the College a few years ago under the title 'Physical Training for Men
in Oberlin College/ and since the original edition of this was almost ex-
hausted a second one was printed in June, for distribution among prospec-
tive students and others likely to be interested in this phase of our col-
lege life.

"Most of the summer was spent in literary work in Oberlin, and some
of its fruits will appear in print in various periodicals during the cur-
rent year, e. g., an article on *Adolf Spiess, the Founder of School Gym-
nastics in Germany,* in the November Mind and Body, and another on
Ter Henrik Ling, and His Successors at the Stockholm Normal School
of Gymnastics,* in the December number of the American Physical Educa-
tion Review."

Professor John R. Wightman, Professor of the Romance
Languages and Literatures, speaks of the important advance
made in that department for the last year, in that for the first
time it was able to command the full time of two professors.
Two other points of special interest are brought out in his report :

"An innovation of the' year was the inviting of Professor Andre
Michel, of the Louvre, Paris, to give a lecture before the students and
general public in French. The lecture, which was upon The French Ca-
thedrals,* was copiously illustrated and proved quite successful. Already
steps have been taken to secure a lecture of a similar character from an-
other noted Frenchman, M. Brentano, of the Arsenal Library, Paris. It
is hoped that we may make some such lecture in French a yearly event
of the Department. Our French Circle has this year entered into affilia-
tion with the 'Alliance Francaise,' and has begun its meetings with in-
creased interest and numbers.**

A single extract ought to be made from the report of Pro-
fessor Albert Temple Swing, of the Chair of Church History in
the Seminary:

"Being now in the twelfth year of this work, I may say that the aim
has been in all these years to strengthen the scholarly features of the de-
partment and keep it in touch with the best of the newer movements. In
this direction I published this year the Outline of the Doctrinal Develop-
ment in the Western Church, based on the Dogmengeschichte of Friedrich
Loofs, which, after corrections and enlargements, will later be given to
the public.**

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Professor Louis Francis Miskovsky, Principal of the Slavic
Department, could hardly help emphasizing the great need of
some more adequate provision for its financial support. The Col-
lege, of course, has never assumed the financial responsibility for
this department, and could not wisely do so. But Professor
Miskovsky *s remark remains thoroughly justified when he says:

"Truly the more tfean three million citizens of Slavic extraction in the
United States furnish an excellent opportunity for Congregational Chris-
tians to do some useful and needed work in foreign missions at home."

In the absence of the head of the Department of German for
further study abroad, it was not attempted to offer the full work
in that department last year. Professor Abbott's full statement
of the equipment which Dr. Mosher brings to the department and
of the present conditions of the department should here find place :

"The appointment in June of Dr. W. K Mosher as Instructor in Ger-
man has met an urgent need, long felt. Dr. Mosher comes to the de-
partment with strong equipment. He took the degree of A. B. at Ober-
lin College in 1899, taught German in our Academy from 1899 to 1903.
The summer of 1900 he spent in Germany. He attended the summer
course at Marburg in 1902, studied at the University of Berlin 1902-Q3, at
the University of Halle 1903-04. He received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of Halle in August, 1904. Dr. Mosher is
a teacher of unusual power, a scholar of superior ability and attainment,
and a man of high ideals and great force of character.

"Permit me to call your attention to the condition of the department
as we enter upon the work of the present year. The large number of
students has made it necessary to form three sections (81 students) besides
those taught by Dr. Mosher and myself. By a temporary arrangement
Mrs. Swing is teaching two of these, and Miss Grace Tenney one. Even
with this arrangement the sections in second and third year German are
too large for the best work. In my judgment a section in these ele-
mentary grades should not contain over twenty-five students, whereas the
facts show that four of the sections contain thirty or mure. Only by
daily individual drill can the accurate, thorough work be done which is
the aim of the department. For this a reasonably small number in a
section is an absolute necessity. Twelve hours of teaching in college
German is being done outside the regular teaching force. To the courses
offered, another course, of at least two hours, should be added: a course

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in review of grammar and elementary composition. This would meet the
need of a considerable number of students who come to us each year
with indifferent preparation. These students have read enough to meet
the requirements of our third and fourth year work, but have not suffi-
cient knowledge of grammatical principles, of simple conversation and of
prose composition to enable them to carry the work of our advanced
classes. If, then, we add two hours to the twelve hours now being pro-
vided for by extra teaching, we have fourteen hours — full work for a
third teacher. May I add that the correction of ^^/-itten exercises in the
first, second, and third year classes consumes so much time that four-
teen hours means very heavy work for a teacher. It seems imperative
that a third teacher be appointed for next year."

It has been a constant surprise to the head of the Depart-
ment of Physics and Astronomy that so many students have de-
sired to elect the very difficult advanced courses in Physics. The
amount of work carried by the department with the help of two
assistants, who are supposed to g^ve only part time, is indicated,
when one takes account of what the implied laboratory work
means, by the single statement with which Professor Charles E.
St. John*s report begins :

"During the past year the work in this department consisted of the
five-hour course in general Physics, the four-hour course in Electricity
and Magnetism, the four-hour course in Heat and Light, and the three-
hour course in Astronomy, all throughout the year. The class in general
Physics was divided into three sections for laboratory work, and the
class in Astronomy worked in one section. It would probably have been
quite impossible to carry so large an amount of work if the assistants
had not really enthusiastically given more time than the College could
fairly require from them.'*

Dr. Simon Fraser MacLennan, Professor of Philosophy and
Psychology, states feelingly the difficulties that the college in-
structor in the department of Philosophy must face, as compared
with the university instructor, and calls special attention to the
fact that "the struggle to be a contributor to the science of his
own department and not merely an expositor, is much more severe
for the collegian than for the university man. The collegian has
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facilities than the university man, and is subject to the additional
hardship of being in centers less evident to the general eye than
is he of the university. And yet it cannot be doubted that the
college teacher, if he is to deal fairly by his department, must
keep in touch with the progressive movements of his own special
work." That Dr. MacLennan, in spite of the very heavy amount
of work he has carried, has not allowed himself to be kept from
original work, is shown by this further statement of his literary
work for the year: "Extended reviews of Knox's Fundamental
Proofs of the Christian Religion, Royce's World and the Indi-
vidual, an* article entitled "The Fundamental Problem of Reli-
gion," all published or to be published in the American Journal
of Theology; a contribution (upon request) to the Decennial
Publications of the University of Chicago ; a review of Professor
Bradley's Appearance and Reality, published in the Journal of
Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods" It is only fair
to say that, in the judgment of the President, Dr. MacLennan has
been doing some notable constructive philosophical thinking in
connection with the most promising and vital philosophical move-
ment of our time. Justice cannot be done Dr. MacLennan with-
out bringing out with explicit clearness the absolutely pressing
need of some further assistance in Experimental Psychology. Dr.
MacLennan's own careful statement on this point deserves to be
reproduced.

"The increased number of students makes it impossible to carry the
arrangement for a longer period. During the year 1903-04 there were reg-
istered in the required courses in Philosophy the following numbers:
Psychology, 113; Ethics, 94; Introduction, 46. This present semester
there are 126 students of Psychology. In Mathematics, in English, etc.,
the increase of attendance has led to increased sections with a consequent
increase of the departmental force. Were the same method followed in
the required courses in Philosophy, an additional instructor capable of
carrying those courses would be a necessity. It has seemed wisest, how-
ever, not to make such a demand, both on account of the improbability
of such an addition being possible at present, and because it has been
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where it is handled as a single organization. The complement of this ar-
rangement, however, is a seriously increased burden in arranging for
individual daily recitations and for the intellectual discipline which alone
makes a required course worth while. As will be evident, oral recita-
tion is out of the question, and a brief written exercise at the beginning
of the hour must be resorted to. This, in turn, demands some eight hourb
labor each week for examining and grading these exercises. Without the
written recitation the class could not be conducted except with division.
With it an increasing amount of mechanical work is thrown upon the
teacher's hands. Apart from this, seven years* experience with the writ-
ten exercise has convinced me of its great pedagogical value. It has insured
definiteness and thoroughness in daily preparation and has been an im-
portant drill in the art of precise exposition. I believe, therefore, that the
present method of conducting the required classes in philosophy should be
continued, but that adequate provision should be made for the efficient
handling of the mechanical side of the work."

If to this situation there is added the consideration of the
amount of time taken for the preparation for the psychological
laboratory, I think it can hardly be doubted that the need of an
assistant here is probably greater, on the whole, than that in any
other department. It should be remembered that Dr. Fitch's
teaching brings relief to the President's work in this department,
but not to Dr. MacLennan.

Professor William George Caskey, of the Department of
Oratory and Rhetoric, calls special attention in his report to the
fact that the greatest growth of the department is in the direction
of debate.

"Six years ago it was with difficulty that a team could be found to
meet our rival for that year in the League Debate. This year there were
35 entries for the first preliminary. A valued Faculty committeeman said
to me recently: 'The best thing about the debate interest is that it has a
steady growth among the students and can be counted on to continue.'
Our effort has been, for the past four years, to create an interest in de-
bate among the literary societies. That effort is being rewarded. My
courses in argumentation and debate are not largely elected, but I notice
that it is the men trained in these courses that are shaping the char-
acter of the society debating. The text and reference books used in
class are found in the hands of many who never take the courses. The

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work with seminary men is as satisfactory work as I am permitted to do.
The needs are there so vital and the men are mature enough to know the
importance of what is attempted. The work is a pleasure among such
men."

Professor Frederick Orville Grover, of the Department of
Botany, reports that "during the past year two new courses have
been oflFered which it was hoped would add much to the strength
of the department. The results in attendance and interest seem
to have warranted the expectation. The new courses are a three-
hour coui;;5e in Organic Evolution and a two-hour course in
Dendrology. These two courses numbered 57, making a total reg-
istration in the depanment of 131 ; a total increase over the pre-
vious year of 98^2%. The systematic collection and study of some
of the more difficult members of the Lorain County flora, which
has been in progress during the past three years, has been con-
tinued. Over 150 marked specimens of oaks, willows, and
thorns, among others, are being studied in the field. To aid the
class in Dendrology in tl\e identification of trees in winter, the
head of the department prepared during the year *A Preliminary
Key to the Trees of the Northern United States' based upon
their winter characters. This enables the identification in winter
of about 100 of the more common trees. So far as he knows, it
is the first key of the kind to appear." While the new quarters
of the Botanical Department in the Lincoln House are for the
most part as satisfactory as could be expected, the lighting of the
middle of the rooms is found to be much poorer than in the Fin-
ney House, from which the department has had to be moved to
make room for the new Chapel building.

Professor Charles Henry Adams Wager's analysis of the situ-
ation in the English Department, seems to me so just that I ven-
ture to put his report before the Trustees in its entirety. It rep-
resents the ideal, certainly, towards which the College should
steadily work in the development of this department.

"Permit me to bring to your attention what seems to me to be the
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Associate Professor, to be responsible for the work in Gjmposition and
to offer certain much-needed elective courses in Q>mposition and Liter-
ature. In the former there are but two one-hour elective courses offered.
A thorough course in the Theory and History of Rhetoric, for example, ?s
greatly to be desired. The number of sections in required composition must
be increased rather than diminished, and the services of two instructors
cannot therefore be spared. In Literature the need of larger equipment is
still more pressing. The History of English Literature, the fundamental
course in the department, and the course that is always largely elected,
is taught at present in two sections of upwards of sixty each. There are
obviously certain courses that a self-respecting department i$ obliged to
provide for the benefit of such students as seek special and thorough
training in the subject. This implies that certain generally popular
courses shall be offered at most only in alternate years, and when oflFered
that they shall be so largely elected as to interfere with their efficiency.
Such is the course in the Elizabethan Drama, which this year contains
more than loo students. Moreover, there are certain courses, for exam-
ple, the Eighteenth Century Literature, American Literature, the History
of Criticism, the History and Theory of Prose Fiction, that cannot be of-
fered at all. It seems to me undesirable, too, that in so fundamental a
subject as Literature, and one that touches so many persons, our advanced
students should be limited to the point of view of a single teacher. In
this respect I fear that Oberlin is not abreast of other colleges of her
rank. It gives me pleasure to say that the regrettable gaps in the English
section of the Library are gradually being filled, and the work of the de-
partment, in consequence, greatly facilitated."

The report of the Professor of Economics and Sociology,
Professor Ernest Ludlow Bogart, also shows the pressure of
the increasing number of students, and the great desirability gen-
erally felt by the Faculty of further assistance in this important
department. The report also contains impressive illustration of
the library needs along the lines of research. The report follows :

"For the Department of Economics and Sociology, I have the pleasure
of reporting continued interest on the part of the students and increase
in the size of the classes. There are registered in the courses given by
me this semester 162, as against 123 at the same time last year, of whom
125 are men. This fact emboldens me to urge a request which I made
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at least a part of his time to this department, and thus permit the devel-
opment of additional courses or the more frequent repetition of those
which are now given only every two or four years. This and the ever
recurrent need of more books are the two pressing needs of the de-
partment One year ago I was assigned the field of Ohio State Finance,
in a co-operatve Economic History of the United States, to be written
by a number of economists of this country. I have directed the work of
the Economic Seminar into this channel, and with the help of the stu-
dents have for over a year endeavored to collect the necessary materials.
Owing to the complete lack of the early documents of Ohio in our library,
and — so far — the impossibility of borrowing them elsewhere, it looks now
as if this important piece of work will have to be drc^ped or given
into other hands. This merely emphasizes the importance of having
books that will permit independent research. We need not merely to buy
new books but even more to fill up the yawning gaps in the older eco-
nomic literature."

Professor Edward Alanson Miller, Professor of Pedagogy,
reports an additional course in the Department of Pedagogy, on
organization and administration of schools. The other courses
given in the department are well elected, and Professor Miller
feels that it is wholly desirable that he should soon be able to
give his entire teaching time to this department, rather than to
divide it, as at present, with some work in History.

Professor Kemper Fullerton, of the Department of the Old
Testament Language and Literature, is offering the same courses
as those given by Dr. Bewer, except that the courses in special
introduction to the literature of the Old Testament and in Old
Testament theology, will be treated in connection with a more
general course in the History of Israel, running throughout the
year.

The report of Dr. Charles Nelson Cole, of the Department
of the Latin Language and Literature, brings out two changes
in that department. The course in Roman Archaeology and the
Teachers' Training course are made to alternate from year to
year; and a senior elective reading course, three hours a week,
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made possible by the appointment of Mr. Lord as Instructor in
Latin and Greek, and the transfer to him of two sections of the
freshman Latin. Mr. Lord's appointment has also made possi-
ble the introduction of work in Prose Composition for all fresh-
man classes, to the very evident strengthening of the course.
Professor Cole believes that the standard of work throughout the
department is slowly but steadily being raised.

The full statistics .concerning the numbers and changes in
enrolment in the different departments is contained in the full
table of instruction units in the Secretary's report. The increases
in the amount of instruction in Zoology and Chemistry are par-
ticularly striking. The increase in Zoology is no doubt largely
due to the fact that those courses have been made accessible to
students earlier in their course than was formerly the case, and
in Chemistry, to the improved equipment, extended curriailum,
and enlarged teaching force in that department.

It will be noted that the Secretary's report also brings out
the fact that the Faculty has been increased during the past year,
largely on account of the greater number of students, by ten
teachers of all grades.

Methods

It has long been the policy of the College to make the head
of each department primarily responsible for the largest possible
results in that department. The methods of instruction, there-
fore, have not become a cut and dried system, but each head of
department has been left free to work out in his own individual
way the methods which he regarded as best adapted to the most
thorough work in his own line. While no doubt the departments
have not all been equally successful, on the whole the results
seem to justify this general plan. The increasing amount of work
of a genuinely seminar kind in the courses in the Theological De-
partment is particularly worth noting. It is true, as it ought to
be in a graduate department, that no severer work is done any-

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where in connection with the College than is done in some of the
courses offered in the Theological Seminary. A general survey
of the reports makes clear, of course, the pressure everywhere
arising from the very growth of the College — pressure for addi-
tional assistants, pressure for recitation rooms, pressure for en-
larged library equipment. The very source of our need is thus,
nevertheless, a real cause of encouragement.

The President looks forward to the time when he can take
the opportunity for a more thorough acquaintance with the inside
work of the College than has perhaps been had in years by any
single person connected with the College. He hopes in time to
be able to know, with an accuracy to which he cannot at all now
pretend, the work of the College in all its directions. Such a
thorough mastery of the internal conditions ought to make it pos-
sible to insure the highest educational economy.

ALUMNI

The alumni of a college should always form the very heart
of its natural constituency, and are quite certain, ultimately, to
be the determining element in its spirit and policy. They cer-
tainly deserve explicit recognition in the report of the President.

Necrology
The Obituary Record of the Alumni of Oberlin College for
the year 1903-04 was carefully prepared by Mr. Luther D. Hark-
ness, and published as one of the regular bulletins of the College.
It contains concise sketches of forty-seven alumni who have died
during the college year; 1. e,y the list does not contain, it should
be rioted, those who have died since Commencement. The num-
ber of deaths is naturally the largest ever included in the necrology.
The classes thus broken in upon range from 1838 to 1903, and the
ages at death from twenty-five years to ninety-two years. Twenty-
two of those whose deaths are here recorded reached the age of
seventy or over, and thirteen the age of eighty or over. Professor
Root notes that the Rev. Elisha B. Sherwood of St. Joseph, Mis-

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souri, of the Theological class of 1836, remains, as for some years,
the senior alumnus. The full list of names follows :

George Athcam Adams, '47.

Robert Bruce Bagby, '74.

Archibald McCullum Ball, '44.

Joseph Hotchkiss Bamum, '54.

Francis George Blanshard, '96.

Hannah Maria Boardman, '49.

Minnie Loretta Cheesman, '73.

Charles Henry Churchill, '52.

Edward Partridge Clisbee, '49.

Lois Mary Church Cowles, '58.

Matthias Day, '48.

Daniel Fowler DeWoIf, '67.

Amos Dresser, '39.

Ann Jane Gray Dresser, '50.

Charlotte Pearl Halstead Fakchiid, '62.

Amelia Lodema Ferris, '74.

Henrietta R. James Fowler, '62.

Martha Matilda Miner Fraser, '63.

Claudius Buchanan French, '83.

Harry Norman Frost, *oi.

George Washington Hall, '50.

William Andrew Hobbs, *76.

Ward Isaac Hunt, *47.

Merton Horr Jameson, '96.

Thomas Jones, *85.

Thomas Whitley Jones, '57.

Abbie Ruth Skinner Kendall, *5i.

Benjamin Franklin Koons, '74.

Malcolm Acton Laughbaum, '03.

Moses Maynard Longley, '42.

John Lynch, '51.

Martha A. Williams Mabbs, '42.

Victor Ebenezer McConnoughey, '87.

Ermina E. Morse McCormick, '59.

Hettie Phlnney Carpenter Morse, '88.

Albert Moser, '92.

Chloe Bradley Newton, '47.

Ida May Hicks Nichols, '94.

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Edna Thompson Robbins, '83.
Giles Waldo Shurtleff, '59.
James Lawrence Smith, '38.
Mattie Eleanor Davies Spensley, '78.
Ruth Maria Tracy Strong, '84.
Thomas DeSaliere Tucker, '65.
Mary Caroline Waterbury, '51.
Louise Clark Westervelt, '73.
Delia Ray Whipple IVheelock, '53.

It is impossible to review the sketches of these lives without
being impressed anew with the great and useful work which it has
been given the College to do through its alumni.

Growing Influence
The College is beginning to feel the rewards of its seventy
years of service, in the manifest growing strength and influence
of its body of alumni. While it can still claim, of course, in this
respect, only a small constituency, compared with some of the
much older eastern universities, it can gratefully recognize the
results already achieved hy its graduates. It was interesting, for
example, to have brought out so strongly at the recent meeting
of the American Board, in a paper presented by Dr. Gregg of
Colorado Springs, on "The Contribution of Western Colleges to
Foreign Missions," that Oberlin's contribution here had been much
larger than that of any other western college. A recent statistical
inquiry made by The Congregationalist also shows that Oberlin
now leads all the colleges of Congregational affiliation in the num-
ber of men sent into the ministry. A still more notable fact came
out in connection with the meeting of the National Council of
Congregational Churches at Des Moines. The roll of regular
delegates to the Council, elected by local Conferences and by State
Associations all over the country, shows that Oberlin contributed
from its alumni almost exactly one-seventh of the entire delegated
attendance, — ^a striking indication, certainly, of the present in-
fluence of the College in the denomination. The fact, of course,
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colleges. Nothing can be further from the thought or desire of
the College than the pressing of any such separate college inter-
est. The fact is mentioned simply as a gratifying indication of the
actual and natural present influence of the alumni. The facts
already noted are in the line of Oberlin's previous natural strength.
It is quite as interesting to recognize the increasing variety of
work into which the graduates of the College are entering, and
the plainly growing financial strength of the alumnal body. While
our alumni still number few of large wealth, compared with the
alumnal rolls of eastern universities, the College may still look for
gifts from its alumni, steadily increasing in number and amount
as the years go on.

I may venture to express again my most earnest hope that
with the gradual paying up of the Reunion subscriptions, the
Living Endowment Union may come to include a very large pro-
portion of all our alumni, who shall count it a privilege to include
the College in the list of their regular annual benefactions, whether
large or small. For I am thoroughly persuaded that it would be a
very sorry day for American education, when our great colleges
and universities should become entirely dependent upon a few
donors of prodigious wealth. For their own internal health, for
the preservation of a sense of manly independence, and above all,
for the sake of the contribution of many personal lives, those in-
stitutions that intend to do really vital work in education need
to have a large number of constant givers of comparatively small
sums. It should not be forgotten that money that can be depended
upon in this way from year to year represents the interest on very
much larger sums, and has power to contribute essentially to the
efficiency and success of the college work. If even half of our
alumni could be counted upon to have even a small part in this
work, some exceedingly important needs of the College could be
regularly met at once.

The alumni may become, besides, the means of deeply inter-
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and Faculty in touch with these^ who may be able to give in much
larger sums than the alumni who have first won their interest.
It is quite impossible for either the Trustees or the Faculty to
have the breadth and closeness of acquaintance with possible
donors that is required if the largest needs of the College are to
be at all adequately met. May it not be expected that the alumni
will have definitely in mind this great possible service which they
can render to their alma mater? These are the natural, normal,
most hopeful, and most permanent lines of financial growth for
the College.

Closer Relations

But if such results as those just suggested are to be obtained
by any college from its alumni, they must follow careful and per-
sistent effort on the part of the College to keep in the closest
possible touch with its alumni. To this end, for a number of
years, the College has been regularly sending out to all its alumni
every year copies of the college catalogue and of the annual re-
ports, and every fifth year a copy of the quinquennial record. The
catalogue may seem to many of the alumni a rather formidable
document, but so much care has now been given by the Secretary
to its arrangement that surely by the use of the table of contents
and of the index, the answers to the most important inquiries
concerning the College can be readily found. It is hoped that the
alumni may be able to make definite use of the catalogue in many
cases, in interesting prospective students. Some of the alumni
have become, in this respect, important recruiting agents for the
College. It is the aim of the President and the other officers
of the College to give in the annual reports as clear and compre-
hensive surveys as possible of the work of the College during the
year covered by the reports. The President tries to make his re-
port a complete and accurate history of the year, that can be
counted upon to include every important fact. Not all portions
of the report, of course, can be equally interesting to all. But it
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turn over the pages of the report, and so be able to note the points
which are of most interest to them individually.

The regular meetings of the various Alumni Associations, to
which a representative of the Faculty is usually sent, remain, of
course, among the most direct and helpful ways of maintaining
and stimulating interest in the College. Besides the President,
Professors Johnston, Root, and Miller have represented the Col-
lege at such meetings during the past year.

An important step in the direction of these closer relations
with the alumni, it is believed, has been taken in the establishment
of the Alumni Magazine, under the special editorship of two of
the alumni, Mr. Louis E. Lord, of the class of 1897, and Mrs.
Helen White Martin, of the class of 1887. The editors intend to
make the magazine a real mirror of those aspects of the college
life which will be of most interest to the alumni. A "Question
Box" has been included in the plans of the magazine, in order to
give opportunity for the frankest inquiries on the part of the
alumni. The President will try, in this department of the maga-
zine, either directly, or indirectly through other members of the
Faculty, to meet these inquiries with equal frankness. As a mere
matter of policy, if there were no other consideration, the Presi-
dent is thoroughly persuaded that in the long run no gain is made
by an attempt to cover up from the natural constituency of the
College any facts that for the present may seem uncomfortable,
provided the close personal relations necessarily involved in educa-
tional work are carefully respected and duly guarded.

The general Committee on Commencement have long been
trying to devise means of making the Alumni Day at Commence-
ment more interesting and profitable. At their suggestion, at the
last Commencement, a new feature was added to the program of
the morning exercises, in a concise review of the year by the Presi-
dent. It is hoped that some further gain may be made by the
introduction from time to time, for discussion at that meeting, of
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is confident that the Commencement Committee, and the officers of
the general Alumni Association, would welcome any suggestions
from the alumni looking to increasing the interest of alumni day,
or in any way strengthening the ties which bind the alimini to the
College. One plan that has been followed with satisfaction for
about a year by the alumni near Boston may be worth considera-
tion in some other localities. A number of the alumni of Boston
have planned to lunch together about once a month, it being
understood that no extra expense is attempted in connection with
the occasion.

It may be expected that the putting of the care of the alumni
list and record in immediate connection with the other work of
the Secretary, may also help to keep the College as a whole in
closer touch with its graduates.

It would seem very desirable that at least as soon as the
75th anniversary of the College, another alumni record, similar
to the "Semi-Centennial Register," should be prepared. Many of
the facts for such a record are already in hand. Probably a suffi-
cient number of alumni would care to possess such a record to
provide for the expense of issuing it. I am even inclined to think,
with President James of Northwestern University, that a similar
record of all who have ever matriculated in connection with the
College department, would be a very profitable college enterprise.
It not infrequently happens that some of the warmest friends of
the College are to be found in the ranks of those who have had
only a comparatively short period of residence at the College.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES.

These Committees stand, in a way, as intermediary between
the alumni and friends of the College and the Trustees and
Faculty. The important reports already made by some of the
Committees illustrate the large possible service that is here opened.
The plan of Advisory Committees was originally instituted with
the hope that it might secure the more direct and personal inter-
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could have membership in the feoard of 'trustees, and that the
suggestions and recommendations of such comparatively outside
committees might prove a genuine help to the respective interests
under their special oversight. The entire list of committees is
published with the list of Trustees and of Trustee Committees at
the beginning of the Annual Reports, as an important part of the
record of the year.

The President recommends that the present Trustee members
of the several committees, whose terms regularly expire January i,
1905, be continued for another term of three years. The vacancy
in the chairmanship of the Committee on Modern Languages,
caused by the death of General Giles Waldo Shurtleff, should of
course be filled at this meeting.

STUDENTS

Attendance
The statistics of the Secretary's report set forth so fully
the facts concerning the enrolment and the changes in enrolment
that have occurred in the different parts of the College, that
little more needs to be said about it here. It is to be noted
in general that the enrolment of 1,618 last year was distinctly the
largest in the history of the College, in spite of the fact that, on
account of the previous plan of issuing the catalogue in the Fall,
some preceding catalogues contained a larger apparent enrolment
than the last catalogue; because under that plan the students of
the Winter and Spring terms of the preceding year, and those
of the Fall term in the year in which the Catalogue was issued
were naturally all included. But this really meant the enrolment
of most of the different students of both years, and so considerably
swelled the total. The present year shows a still further increase
over last year. The fact that the College Department increased
nearly 50 per cent in three years is especially noteworthy. The
slight diminution in the freshman enrolment the present year is
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of students having special classification, all of whom, it should be
remembered, are of full college rank, and a considerable number
of whom might perhaps be wisely classed as freshmen, though not
doing all the regular freshman work. It may be remarked in
passing, that it is evidently highly desirable that as few students
as possible should be put outside of the regular class organizations.
The unattached condition of the "special student" is a hindrance
in bringing him into close association with his fellow students
and into hearty enjoyment of the student life and appreciation of
its inner spirit.

This decrease in the freshman enrolment is, however, more
than offset by the increase in the upper classes. The fact that the
number of students admitted from other colleges to the upper
classes of the College department has within four years increased
more than i6o per cent, and that these students come from such
a wide range of colleges, is evidence of the deepening influence of
the College. The decrease in the freshman class, the reports from
other colleges seem to indicate, is a quite general phenomenon
throughout the college world. Our slight loss at this point is
therefore not to be taken as due to local conditions. The large
proportion (one-third of the freshman class) still admitted from
the Academy is not to be overlooked, as showing how indispen-
sable a feeder for the College department the Academy still
remains.

The College has definitely assumed the responsibility, this
year, for the issue of a directory of the entire student body, since
the usefulness of such a directory the last two years had been
well illustrated.

Breadth of Constituency

The breadth of the constituency of the College is still re-
markably maintained, if it is not even extended. When one re-
members that the statistics show that, on the average, two-thirds
of the attendance of even our largest universities come from within
a radius of one hundred miles, it is certainly a noteworthy fact

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that Oberlin steadily brings a half of its students from outside
the State of Ohio, and that such widely scattered schools and
colleges as the Secretary's report indicates, are contributing to our
enrolment. Few institutions of learning in the country have a
better right to regard their constituency as really national.

Proportion of Women

It should be noted that the Secretary's statistics again indi-
cate a loss for the last year in the proportion of men in the College
department, though there was a slight gain in the attendance of
men in the whole institution. As in the very nature of the case,
it must be expected that a school of music or art would draw very
much more largely upon women than men, and as the Theological
Seminary, on the other hand, draws almost wholly upon men, a
fairer comparison could perhaps be arrived at by confining the
figures to the College and to the Academy. But even so, the
figures for ten years show, on the whole, a graduaj gain in the
proportion of women, and for the last six years a steady though
slight gain in that proportion from year to year. The actual num-
bers in these two departments for last year were 455 men and
483 women. Considering the four causes, to which reference was
made in last year's report, which are continually operating in the
best co-educational colleges to increase the proportion of women,
this showing is probably not to be regarded as discouraging. At
the same time, we ought definitely to face the manifest tendency —
the tendency which in Boston University, for example, gave the
women last year in the College department nearly double the
enrolment of men. It is possible that in our own case the ten-
dency to an increasing proportion of women in the entire insti-
tution might be partly checked by putting in force the suggestions
already made as to certain changes in the Conservatory of Music.
But at best this could not be expected to make any great difference
in the totals. The growth of the Seminary will also do something
toward increasing the proportion of men in the entire institution.
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thing should be done to increase the natural proportion of men in
the College department The establishment of a teachers' course
in physical training for men may naturally give a little help at this
point. Greater help would undoubtedly come if the College were
able to offer the more important part of the shop work of the first
two years of the technical courses. This would enable a graduate
of the College, without any disadvantage, to finish his technical
course within two years of his graduation from the College, and
it would quite certainly enable the College to attract to the Col-
lege and to hold for the college course an increasing number of
men looking to technical work. Further general courses in Science
seem little likely to affect the problem, as most of the courses so
added seem to have proved almost equally attractive to women
and to men. But all these expedients can hardly set aside the
results of natural causes here at work. And if we really believe
that for the very sake of co-education it is important that the
number of women in college should be at best but little in excess
of the number of men, we should have to enter upon a definite
policy of limiting in some way either the absolute number or the
proportion of women to be admitted to the College. This would
be a rather radical departure from previous usage, but it is a de-
parture already made by some other institutions, and may well
need to be carefully considered by us, if the recent trend proves
more marked.

Health

Very few cases of serious illness have occurred in the student
body during the past year; but some of the minor ailments have
been quite prevalent. As has been indicated in previous reports,
it is at this point quite as much as in really serious diseases, that
the need of a college hospital is felt. I have wondered whether
the more serious cases could not perhaps be best and most econom-
ically met by the possible endowment for the College of two or
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more modest provision for the prompt isolation of cases of slighter
ailments in a small hospital here.

Two deaths have occurred in the student body in the past
year; those of Donald Horace McCray of Waterford, Pennsyl-
vania, a member of the freshman class, on April i8, 1904, and of
Edith Maud Miner, of Tacoma, Washington, a member of the
junior class, who died of typhoid fever on April 20, 1904.

Athletics

But little needs to be added on the subject of athletics, to
what is contained in the reports of the Directors of Gymnasiums,
and the report of the College Secretary, acting as Graduate Man-
ager. The generally good situation in this part of the student life,
noted in last year's report, continues. In fact, our arrangements
here are such — with members of the Faculty acting as Graduate
Manager, as Coach, and as members of the Advisory Committee —
that, if there is an>^hing specially at fault, the College must be
held directly responsible for it. Students cannot well be bought
up for our athletic teams without our knowledge. But the pres-
sure to have a winning team at any cost is still extravagantly felt
by all the colleges, and to a degree beyond any rational defense.
It seems as if the idea of these sports as sports had almost van-
ished. And we can hardly claim ourselves to be entirely free from
this craze. Valuable help for the athletic interests may be expected
from the recent formation of an "Oberlin 'Varsity Club," made
up of wearers of the "O/' that has for its object, among other
things, "to promote a genuine athletic spirit, to act as an advisory
council in athletics, and to extend Oberlin's interests abroad."
Emphasis needs, also, still to be laid upon encouraging as large
a variety as possible of athletic sports, and upon bringing, either
into them or into regular physical exercise of some other kind, a
much greater number of students. This is particularly desirable
in the case of the women, where the number that it is possible to
accommodate in the gymnasium is so limited.

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Discipline

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As last year, the reports of the Deans and the Directors indi-
cate that there have been comparatively few cases requiring serious
discipline, and with these it has been possible to deal quietly. There
are certain things, however, in the regulation of the student life,
that evidently need to be definitely faced in frank conference with
the students. And I have confidence that the present year will
show real advance at just this point. The opening of the present
year has certainly shown, on the whole, an excellent spirit in the
student body. There have not been lacking, doubtless, some indi-
. cations of mistaken and misdirected student sentiment ; but so far
as the general position of the Faculty is a reasonable one, it may
be trusted to make its way gradually into the convictions of the
student body. There is no reason why Oberlin College ought not
to be able to lead all the colleges of the country in establishing a
universal tradition of a genuine and thorough-going democratic
spirit, and in standing for the insistence that the definition of a
gentleman within the College shall not be different from that
without the College, except that the student — in the course of a
liberal training — ought to have a surer sense of the more delicate
implications 'of the honored name of gentleman than the ordinary
man outside of College. One of the finest things in the history of
Oberlin has been the comparative promptness and cenainty with
which the student body have responded to the presentation of any
really worthy and high ideals. And we are not to be disappointed
in this respect in the years to come. The desire of the students to
add a more varied interest to the college life can certainly be met
in such a way as not to endanger the proudest and worthiest tra-
ditions of our entire college history. This has already been
achieved at a number of points within recent years.

Scholarship

The table of instruction units in the Secretary's report makes
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are being elected. Some of the severest courses given in College,
considering the nature of the subject covered, are among those
most largely chosen. The influence of a few students of high
ideals on scholarship is one of the most effective agencies in im-
proving the scholarship of any class. But the main responsibility
for securing thoroughness in scholarship must no doubt be laid
upon the heads of the various departments. The Faculty Com-
mittee on Failure in Scholarship can do^ and is doing, much ; but
at best they can hardly furnish more than a vigorous check upon
poor work. The creation of really enthusiastic scholarship must
rest with the individual teacher, and we certainly have no reason
to believe that this responsibility is less felt than formerly.

Graduate Scholarships

The list of students holding graduate scholarships, for the
year upon which we have just entered, is as follows :

Mr. W. V. D. Blythe, '04, Chemistry.

Mr. Russell Parsons Jameson, *oo, Modem Languages.

Mr. Herbert A. Sturges, '04, Mathematics and Physics.

Miss Ruth A. Disbrow, '04, History.

Miss Jessie M. Kelley, '99, English.

Miss Alice R. Swing, A. B., 1899, Denison University, Germany.

It is interesting to notice that the graduate students are this
year seeking to form a kind of class organization, that may give
them something of the feeling of unity that the class organization
gives under-graduate students.

Social and Religious Life

No marked changes have occurred, during the past year, in
connection with the social life of the College. The religious life
seems to have been wholesome and earnest. The work of the
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations has
gone steadily on. Mr. J. E. Sprunger gave half his time as Secre-
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time, a General Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
ciation was elected, — Miss Georgia Carrothers, of the class of
1902.- Miss Carrothers gives half her time to the work of the
Association, and began her work with the second semester of last
year. Mr. Sprunger is to give his entire time to the work of the
Association for the coming year. The work of the year showed
especially large gains in various lines in the work of the Young
Men's Christian Association; and the Young Women's Associa-
tion showed the clear advantage of the appointment of a special
Secretary. At the Chapel exercises following the day of prayer for
colleges, a special fund was raised for the salary of Mr. Paul
Leaton Corbin, who goes out under the American Board to enter
upon the work of the Shansi Mission, where so many Oberlin
alumni laid down their lives during the Boxer revolution. At this
Chapel service $1,375 was subscribed, practically all of which
was later paid in. A special farewell service for Mr. and Mrs.
Corbin was held Sunday evening, June 12, that could hardly fail
to give an unusual impetus to missionary interests. The Mission-
ary Volunteer Band has been unusually active the past year, and
very considerable accessions have been made to its enrolment.
Seven Oberlin students altogether go this year to foreign mission-
ary work. In this connection it may be appropriately mentioned
that by recommendation of the general commencement committee,
the Faculty voted to replace the long-standing "missionary ad-
dress," given on the evening of commencement Sunday, by an
address to be given under the auspices of the Young Men's and
Young Women's Christian Associations. This address, for the
year just past, was given by our own Trustee, Dr. Lucien C.
Warner, Chairman of the International Y. M. C. A. Committee.

RELATION TO OTHER EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Secondary Schools

The report of the Secretary shows the extent to which sec-
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dents to Oberlin College. It will be noted that a definite system
of reports to these schools has been undertaken by the Secretary,
which ought to keep us in close and helpful touch with them.
The Committee of the Faculty on Secondary Schools, through its
Chairman, Mr. Miller, has done much to make more intimate and
cordial the relations between the College and the. schools in the
immediate vicinity. Special addresses by Professors Miller and
St. John and Mr. Fauver have been given before the High School
at Elyria; by Professor Miller, Dr. Luce, and Mr. Fauver before
the High School at Lorain; and by Professor Miller and Mr.
Fauver before the High School at Wellington. Professor Wager
also spoke at the Toledo Central High School, and the President
has made some ten addresses to High Schools during the year,
including addresses at two of the High Schools of Buffalo, the
Central High School at Syracuse, the Central High School of
Cleveland, and commencement addresses at the Central and West-
ern High Schools of Detroit. The President, and Professors
Johnston, MacLennan, Miller, and St. John, have also spoken at
various secondary school associations. Arrangements were also
made by the Committee on Secondary Schools, for visits on the
part of High Schools of the vicinity to the College. Opportunity
was given these visiting students not only to see the college build-
ings and get some knowledge of different phases of college life,
but some special exhibitions and lectures were arranged for them.
In the same direction, a very successful athletic school meet was
planned and conducted under the auspices of the College, in which
representatives of eleven schools took part; the college students
arranging for the individual entertainment of each visiting dele-
gate. There can be no doubt that this occasion, like the similar
one last year, was of real value in putting us in increasingly
pleasant relations with the schools of all this part of the State.

Quite aside from any immediate or later advantage that may
come to the College itself from making more close and helpful
these relations to the secondary schools, the College certainly owes

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it to itself that it should count much more deeply than it has
counted in stimulating educational interest along all lines, in the
county in which it stands, and in this whole portion of the State.
It must be held in a certain degree responsible for exerting the
quickening influence that ought to come from an institution of
higher education, to all other schools and educational interests.

Other Colleges

The Secretary's report also shows in detail the considerable
number of other colleges from which students are coming to Ober-
lin, upon which comment has already been made. In the North
Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Col-
lege is co-operating with the other colleges and universities of all
the north central states, in using a uniform admission blank, and
in making out a definite list of accredited schools. The extent to
which the co-operation of all the colleges and universities has
been secured in this matter of the relations to secondary schools,
is most noteworthy, and is a marked indication of the extent to
which respectful co-operation is replacing hostile competition, in
the case of all the colleges of these States.

The College has been represented at various educational asso-
ciations and college and university functions, either by the Presi-
dent or by some professor elected by the Faculty. Professor
Bewer represented the College at the Fiftieth Convocation of the
University of Chicago ; Professor Cowdery, at the Jubilee Celebra-
tion of the University of Wisconsin ; the President and Professor
St. John, at the inauguration of President Howe of Case School of
Applied Sciences. These may be taken as examples of a number
of similar occasions. There can be no doubt that these inter-
changes of courtesy between the colleges have done not a little
to promote mutual understanding and consideration and to help
forward practical co-operation in important educational matters.
The attitude of educational institutions toward one another seems
to be becoming worthy of the high aims for which they stand.

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Professional mid Technical Schools

The College has had a prominent part in another conference
of eighteen colleges of the Interior, in connection with which some
hopeful steps are being taken looking to a better and fairer ar-
rangement with the professional schools of certain universities,
and with technical schools, on the part of all the colleges inter-
ested. A movement is also on foot, on the part of various Ohio
institutions, looking in the same direction. These various co-
operative movements seem to indicate that a reasonable adjust-
ment with professional and technical schools can be secured, even
on the part of the entirely isolated college. As I intimated in my
last report, there is in my judgment no just educational reason
why this should not be possible, nor why the rather arbitrary
action involved in the laws of two or three of the States should
not be subsequently modified. The legislation in these cases acts
not so much to raise the standard of education as simply to furnish
a monopoly to the universities or professional schools in those
states.

Inter-Seminary Conference

The Sixth Annual Conference of the Congregational Semina-
ries of the United States and Canada met at Des Moines October
15 and 17, in connection with the National Council. All the
Congregational Seminaries of the United States were represented
in the Conference, and a definite constitution for their co-operative
action in line with the report of the Committee referred to last
year, was adopted, and the President of the College elected as
President of the Conference for the ensuing year. The most im-
portant action taken was the adoption of a plan for the joint pres-
entation, on the part of the seminaries, to college students of the
claims of the ministry. Upon recommendation of this Conference^
a committee of five of the most prominent ministers of the denom-
ination was appointed to co-operate with the seminaries in visiting
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and in endeavoring to secure the attention of strong men to the
claims of the Christian ministry. To this end, the Committee, as
nominated by the Seminary Conference and confirmed by the
National Council, was composed of the Moderator, Dr. Washing-
ton Gladden, the retiring Moderator, Dr. Amory H. Bradford,
Dr. Nehemiah Boynton of Detroit, Dr. Charles E. Jefferson of
New York, and Dr. Charles S. Mills of Qeveland. This is
another illustration and triumph of the co-operative spirit, and
certainly makes possible a much stronger and more dignified ap-
peal to the colleges than could be made by the competing claims of
the seminaries as rival institutions. In the carrying out of this
plan, the colleges to be visited have been divided into five large
groups, and it is hoped to send into each of these groups a delega-
tion of two men — one of the ministers of the committee and a
representative of the seminaries — who will visit together all the
colleges of that g^oup.

The Function of the College

Real progress seems to have been made during the year in
clearing up in the minds of many the real function of the College.
The feeling of misgiving and of fear on the part of the colleges,
that seemed rather prevalent two or three years ago, has, I judge,
been considerably dissipated. It has only required that the indis-
pensable service already rendered to the life of the nation and
needing continuously to be rendered by the colleges should be
fairly recognized, to make it impossible for men to suppose that
either the secondary schools, on the one hand, or the universities,
on the other, could take the place of the American college. Few
more enthusiastic sessions were held at the recent Congress of
Arts and Science, than that of the college section of the department
of education, where college and university men alike seemed to be
ready to agree in the permanent and indispensable function of the
college, as furnishing, to a degree true of no other institution, the
social leaven of the nation. Doubtless discussion of the point is

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not yet at an end, but the full work of the college, with its entire
four years' course, is not to be set aside. And in its general
grasp of the distinctive college ideal, it may be well doubted
whether Oberlin is outdone by any other college.

Just how far that distinctive function of the college requires
limitation in numbers, is a point not easy to determine. But it is
obvious that a number of the colleges are making earnest and
vigorous attempts to keep the highest college ideals among much
larger bodies of students than the old college perhaps ever con-
tained. One thing at least must be clear to all who do not wish
to be self-deceived concerning this work of the college : That its
function cannot be preserved by any machinery, however intricate
it may be. The work of the college depends preeminently upon
vital personal contact. And the changes that are made in the
increasing growth of the college should be aimed at making it
possible to retain at every point this indispensable touch of the
person. The change in the organization of the Women's Depart-
ment of our own College is a case in point.

OUTSIDE REPRESENTATION AND INFLUENCE

College Publications

The list of direct publications of the College is given in the
report of the Secretary. But to it, of course, should be added all
the varied publications by members of the Faculty and officers of
the College, as covering quite as important a field of outside repre-
sentation. Those publications have been referred to chiefly in
connection with the reports of the Faculty. The College adver-
tising has continued along the same lines as those mentioned
last year.

Lectures and Concerts

In addition to the list of Artists' Recitals contained in the
report of the Director of the Conservatory of Music, and the re-
citals given by members of the graduating class of the Conserva-
tory, the following lectures and entertainments have been given

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during the year under the auspices of the College, or of the vari-
ous organizations connected with it :

October 8— Mr. N. D. C. Hodges. 'The Public Libraries of Europe."
October 13 — Mr. James Whitcomb Riley. Readings from his own poems.
October 15— Professor A. A. F. Johnston. "President Charles G. Finney."
November 17 — Governor La Follette. ''Representative Government**
November 18— Professor A. T. Clay. "Life in Babylonia before the Time

of Abraham.**
November 19 — Professor A. S. Root. "The Use of the Library."
December i — Mr. Hinton White. "The Story of Australia, Old and New."
December 14 — Mr. Edward M. Shepard. "Dedication to a Cause."
December 15-— M. Andre Michel. "The Great French Cathedrals, especially

Notre Dame."
December 17 and 18 — The Oberlin Musical Union. Oratorio, The Messiah,

HandeL
January 12 — Opening of the Grand Organ. Organ Recital.
January 14— Rev. Wm. L. Tenney. "The Negro Problem.*'
February 9 — Professor S. H. Clark. Reading from Sophocles* "Antigone."
February 9 — Professor S. H. Clark. Stephen Phillips* "Ulysses.*
February 10 — Professor G P. Baker. Illustrated Lecture, "London and

its Theatres in the Time of Shakespeare."
February 16-18 — Mr. Marion Lawrence — Six Lectures on the Sunday

School

February 22— Dr. W. E. Barton. "George Washington."

March i — Mr. Bliss Perry. "William Makepeace Thackeray."

March 8 — Second Church Choir, assisted by Mrs. Doolittle Blodgett, solo-
ist, and Conservatory Orchestra.

March 21 — Professor G Frederick Wright. "Russian and Japanese War."
March 22 — ^The Oberlin College Glee Club. Concert
April 12 — Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston. "On the Nile."
April 14— Dr. Washington Gladden. "Thomas Carlyle, a Writer of Books."
April 19 — Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus. "The Eloquence of Later Puritanism."
May 10 — Mr. Booker T. Washington. "The Success of Negro Education."
May II— Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject.*'
May 12 — Rev. James Stalker, D. D. Commencement Address, Theological

Seminary. "The Average Man.*'
May 12 — Rev. H. O. Allen. Address before the Alumni of the Theological

Seminary. "The Permanent Dignity of the Christian Ministry."
June 19 — President Henry Churchill King. Baccalaureate Sermon. "The

Ultimate Problem.*'
June 21 and 22 — The Musical Union. "The Beatitudes," Cesar Franck,
June 22 — Professor George Santayana, Ph. D. Commencement Address.

'Tradition and Practice.'*

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The following brief report by Professor Martin, the Chairman
of the Committee of the Art Exhibition, held March 28-April 9,
is needed to supplement the list of lectures thus given :

"The exhibition of this year was like that of 1902, accompanied by ten
lectures :

Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston, "The Temples of Egypt."

Professor C. B. Martin, "The Acropolis at Athens."

Miss Mary Monroe, "Vvells Cathedral."

Miss Mary Monroe, "Perugia."

Professor E. Dickinson, "How to Study Pictures."

Professor C. B. Martin, Illustrated Lecture, "Egypt."

Professor C. N. Cole, "The Principal Monuments of the Roman

Forum."
Professor Walter Dennison, "Some Roman Portraits."
Professor C. B. Martin, "Some Famous Equestrian Statues."
Dr. Alice H. Luce, Reading, "The Art Poems of Browning."
Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston, "The Van Eycks."

The lectures were attended more generally than two years ago. The net
financial results to the departments interested were $200 for the depart-
ment of Modern Art, and $200 for the department of Greek and Roman
Archaeology. The same arrangement was made with the public schools as
at the last Exhibition, viz., that admission fees from teachers and pupils
were devoted to the purchase of pictures for the different school rooms.

The only features of this year that were novel were the use of the
lantern to illustrate several of the lectures, and the provision of a reference
art library of more than three hundred volumes, mainly from the library
of the College and from that of the Union Library Association. Both of
these features justified themselves; the library, in particular, being very
generally used and adding very much to the profit of the Exhibition."

Outside Work and Lectures

Professor A. A. F. Johnston gave a course of ten lectures in
Elyria, and three in Cleveland, as well as a number of single
lectures in other towns in Northern Ohio. Professor G. Frederick
Wright has continued his work of previous years, in many out-
side lectures and in much writing for the press, to some of which
reference has already been made. Professor Bosworth has given
the Theological Seminary most effective representation in various
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been making the Seminary count, as it has seldom counted before,
in the work of the immediate neighborhood. By invitation of the
International Y. M. C. A. Committee, Professor Bosworth has
been preparing, during the summer just past, a course in the Life
of Christ, intended for freshmen in college. This will add to the
great work he has already done for the colleges in the two other
courses previously prepared for the Committee, and tends greatly
to extend the knowledge and reputation of the Seminary in all the
colleges of the country. Mr. Lynds Jones, Instructor in Zoology,
gave some ornithological lectures at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
By invitation of the Cleveland Congregational Qub, a portion of
the Second Church choir, under the leadership of Professor A. S.
Kimball, gave Tschaikowsky's entire setting of the Russian Lit-
urgy before the Club at Pilgrim Congregational Church. They
also sang at the First Congregational Church of Elyria. The
Musical Union, under Professor Andrews's directorship, also gave
The Messiah in Cleveland at Grays' Armory, with the Pittsburg
Orchestra. The College Glee Club, under the directorship of Mr.
C. T. Roome of the senior class, and with the very efficient help of
Professor Peck as Manager, carried out another successful trip, in
which they represented the College in every way with great credit.

Material Equipment

The report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
states with fulness and precision the changes that have gone on
during the year in the buildings of the College, and reference may
be made directly to that report.

The relief of the library by the removal of the Museum,
the larger and safer provision for the Museum in Bradley Audi-
torium, the bringing of Sturges Hall into large use for recita-
tion purposes, and the much-needed additions to the Secretary's
office and to the offices of the Principal of the Academy and of
the Registrar, are all to be gratefully recorded, though they can
afford, at best, only temporary relief. The enlargement of War-
ner Concert Hall and the addition of the fine Conservatory Organ,

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already referred to, are permanent gains, thougli even the en-
larged hall will not accommodate the numbers desiring to at-
tend the artists' recitals. The electric lighting and the laying of
the cork floor in the library have met two great needs there.

The suggestion of the Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, in line with the special Committee of the Trustees on
that subject, that something should be done as promptly as pos-
sible for the care of the trees upon the college campus, is
eminently in place. A careful preliminary canvass has been made
by Mr. Andrew Auten, in conference with a representative com-
mittee of the Faculty, and everything is in readiness but the
money, for going forward with a wise dealing with this some-
what difficult problem.

The recommendation of the Superintendent that the smaller
buildings in the rear of Peters Hall should be removed as soon
as possible, is also plainly wise.

Steady gains are going forward in both the Physical and
the Psychological laboratories, through the aid afforded by the
regular appropriation in the budget.

The original report of the Olmsted Brothers, with the re-
port of the Committee of the Trustees upon it, at least indicates
some of the lines along which the College must expect to grow,
and gives the immediate assurance that nothing will be done in
buildings or grounds without a long look ahead. The securing
of Mr. Cass Gilbert as the architect of the College Chapel ought
to insure a building of high architectural worth.

The very extensive and satisfying alterations which have
been made in the Second Church, under the direction of a special
committee of the Trustees of the Church, of which Professor St.
John has been chairman, mean a distinct gain at an important
point in the environment of the College students, and they seem
almost like similar improvements made upon College property.

Decided improvements have been made during the year in
the water supply of the town, which may well be regarded now

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as of exceptionally good quality. Considerable additions tiavfi
also been made to the brick paving, and steps have been taken
which insure great improvements in the grounds about the rail-
way station — arrangements having been made for the purchase of
all the land about the station between South Professor and
South Main Streets, and for its conversion into a park. All
these things add materially to the attractiveness of Oberlin as a
college town.

Needs

The main needs brought out by the survey of the year have
been noted in connection with the various divisions of the re-
port, and especially in connection with the reports of the officers
and of the Faculy. This general survey seems to the President
to indicate that increase in endowment is needed now nowhere
more than in the Theological Seminary, where there has been
practically no increase in resources for many years, and in the
Library, where additional endowment would at once affect the
work of every department. The situation seems also to show the
plain need of assistance in the very large required courses of
the Junior year, and in the department of German, and the great
desirability of an additional associate professor both in English,
and in Sociology and Economics. The buildings most needed,
besides the Chapel already provided for, are a fire-proof and
ample library building, a building for the biological sciences, a
Y. M. C. A. building that should afford a center for the men's
activities, conceived along the broadest lines, a women's gym-
nasium building, an art building, and an administration building.
Many other things press, as the full list of needs in the report of
last year indicates ; but these may perhaps be regarded, for various
reasons, as now taking precedence. Among smaller needs, the
most urgent, perhaps, are, money sufficient to provide for the shop
work of the first two years of technical courses, and money for
immediately giving the necessary care to all the trees on the col-
lege property. And no list of needs should be closed without

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referring to the need of added endowment for increase of salaries.

The completion of the new half-million fund to which the
anonymous donor's conditional gift of $100,000 looked, would
go far toward meeting the most urgent of these needs. The time
limit, as already extended by the donor, expires January i, 1905.
Adding together the various subscriptions and sums which have
already come in that might be counted toward this fund, a total
of about $180,000 is reached, including the original $100,000
offer, and excluding any valuation of the Olney Art Collection.
No question so important confronts the Trustees at the coming
meeting, as the consideration of ways and means by which this
fund can be completed.

The definite recommendations of the Council for the present
and the ensuing years are necessarily limited by the budget, and
will be presented to the Trustees in connection with the report
of the Budget Committee.

Respectfully submitted,

HENRY CHURCHILL KING.

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Reports of Officers

Report of the Secretary

To the President:

Sir: 1 have the honor to present herewith my sixth annual report as
Secretary of Oberlin College, covering the year 1903-04.

During the year 1903-04 the rooms assigned ior the uses of this office
have been repaired and improved in several important respects. A new
vault has been constructed immediately above a similar vault in the Treas-
urer's office. In this vault are stored the Trustee papers, files of catalogues,
and papers and records too valuable to be allowed to remain in the open
office. In common with the Treasurer's vault, the vault in this office is
very damp, and there is danger that some important books and papers
may be spoiled by mould. The vault door was the gift of Mrs. Elisha
Gray of Highland Park, Illinois.

An additional room was constructed opening from my inner office,
to be used primarily as a room for alumni records. The editors of the
new Alumni Magazine will also have a desk in this room. Mr. L. D.
Harkness, who has charge of the preparation of material for the Quin-
quennial Catalogue, has moved his desk into this office. There will un-
doubtedly be a very considerable gain to the College from having all these
lists of alumni and records of students, both past and present, accessible
in one place. Since July ist the conduct of the ballot for Alumni Trustee
has been in the charge of this office, thus affording a small relief to Li-
brarian Root.

A new letter filing cabinet, purchased at a cost of somewhat more than
$100, has greatly improved the efficiency of the work of my office. The
correspondence had outgrown the former filing case, and much energy was
being wasted each day in searching for correspondence. The new filing
case has four or five times the capacity of the old one. The old case has
been placed in the Academy office, where it seems to fully meet the needs
of that department.

These improvements have made the work of this office much more
effective, but the danger from fire is still very great. It is to be hoped

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that the fact that better ari*ingements have beert tnadc in the office building
for the transaction of college business will not lead the Trustees to become
satisfied to continue the present building permanently for administration
purposes. In spite of the additional vault which has been constructed,
much of the material in this building cannot be carried into the vault at
night, and the destruction of the building by fire would be a great disaster.
The Bulletin of Oberlin College, issued bi-monthly, included last year
the following publications:

No. 7. Annual Reports for 1902-05, Nov., 1903.

No. 8. Catalogue for 1903-04, preliminary edition, Jan., 1904.

No. 9. Catalogue of the Conservatory of Music, Feb., 1904.

No. ID. Oberlin Academy Calendar, Mar., 1904.

No. II. Catalogue for 1903-04, final edition, June, 1904.

No. 12. Necrology report for 1903-04, July, 1904.
An extra bulletin was issued in February, 1904, for the Summer School
containing announcements of courses and other information concerning
the summer session. Bulletins 7 and 11 were mailed to all alumni.

The other publications which have been issued during the year have
included the annual calendar and a new student directory. The calendar
for 1904 was issued at the first of December, 1903, the edition being in-
creased to 2,500. Of this number, 1,200 were distributed among the high
schools in Ohio and neighboring states, and several hundred more were
sent to important friends of the College. The students and Faculty pur-
chased the remaining calendars. The net cost to the College of these
calendars did not exceed $100. The new calendar for 1905 is in the hands
of the printer and will be issued about December ist of this year, the
edition being increased to 3,500.

It has seemed necessary to print an official directory of students and
teachers. Previous to this year these directories have been issued as private
enterprises. This fall, however, the College printed its own directory. This
was issued on the 14th of October. It contained the names and addresses
of 1473 students, and also of members of the Faculty and of the Trustees
of the College. The sale of these directories to students will practically
meet the cost of the printing of them.

When the final edition of the catalogue was printed fifty copies were
bound in a substantial way for the permanent files in the Library and in the
various College offices, as well as for the uses of teachers and trustees.

Several years ago the Board of Trustees voted that the alumni cata-
logue, which had been issued at intervals of three years, should appear at
less frequent intervals, and the officers of the College were instructed to
issue this catalogue as a quinquennial, the first edition appearing January i,
1895. The time has now arrived for the preparation of another quinquen-

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nial catalogue, and active work has been commenced upon the preparation
of matter for it. It is to be issued nominally January i, 1905, but practically
m the late sprii^ of 1905, and will include all graduates of the College
to and including the year 1904.

During the year the Committee on Admission adopted the uniform
blank approved by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secon-
dary Schools, and we have been using this blank for the entrance credits
of all students for the last half year. The names of the certificated high
schools of the North Central Association were printed in the final edition
of the College catalogue, and this practice will be continued next year.

From a number of schools there have come requests for framed photo-
graphs of College buildings and campus views, and the Committee on
Outside Representation plans to send out eight or ten frames of College
views during the coming year, placing them in some of the more im-
portant schools. One frame of this kind has already been forwarded to
the John Marshall High School, Chicago.

At the end of the first semester of the year 1903-04, the records of
work done by Freshmen and College Specials during the semester were
sent out to the preparatory schools from which the students came. These
reports are of value to the College and to the preparatory schools. The
preparation of the reports enables us to scrutinize more carefully than
ever before the quality of work accomplished by our new students. When
the students showed particularly fine scholarship the reports were ac-
companied by personal letters expressing the satisfaction of the College in
the preparation of the students. The knowledge that the records of the
students are to be thus reported back to the high schools will make the
high school authorities more careful in their certification of students.
The experience of one year in this matter has been entirely satisfactory.

The statistics which follow cover the points usually treated in my
report

OFFICERS AND TEACHERS

The officers of instruction and government for the College year of
1903-04 were as follows:

Professors 34

Emeritus Professor i

Associate Professors 4

Instructors 20

Tutors, Teachers, and Laboratory Assistants 20

Librarians and Library Assistants 5

Gymnasium Directors and Assistants 5

Administrative Officers and Clerks 11

Totol 106

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This total is an increase of ten over the preceding year. The increase
is accounted for as follows : Professors i, Associate Professors i, Instruc-
tors 4, Tutors I, Teachers 2, Gymnasium Assistant i.

DEGREES CONFERRED

The followmg degrees were conferred during the year 1903-04:

In Course-
Men Women Total

AM 4 4 8

A. B 50 48 98

Mus. B 2 6 8

D.B 808

64 58 122
Upon Completion of Prescribed Work:

A. M o 2 2

A. B I I 2

Ph. B o I I

L. B o I I

~ 1 "6

Honorary:

A. M I o I

In addition to the preceding, one diploma was issued to a graduate of
the Conservatory of Music, and six diplomas to graduates of the Teachers*
Course in Physical Training for Women. Five of the six graduates from
the Teachers' Course in Physical Training received at the same time the
A. B. degree for the Completion of work in the College. The other gradu-
ate from the Teachers' Course had already received the degree of Ph.B.
from Ohio State University, and received from Oberlin the degree of
Master of Arts.

The aggregate of all degrees and diplomas issued was 136. The cor-
responding numbers for the four preceding years are shown below:

1899-1900 122

1900-01 100

1901-02 102

1902-03 141

In this connection it may be of interest to note the number of degrees
issued during recent years to graduates of the old "Literary" course. The
Trustees voted under date of June 18, 1894, that the degree of Bachelor
of Letters (L. B.) should be issued to graduates from the former Literary
course, upon payment of the regular degree fee of $5.00. The following
table shows the number of sitch degrees:

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IQOO-OI 8

1901-02 II

1902-03 3

1903-04 4

For the first time in the history of the institution the graduates from
the Academy department received diplomas of graduation. There were
34 of these Academy diplomas. In addition to this number, there were
several others who completed their preparation for College but did not meet
the technical requirements for Academy graduation,

GENERAL ENROLLMENT I9O3-O4

The enrollment of students for the year 1903-04, as published in the
final edition of the catalogue last June, reached the total of 1,618. This
total shows an increase of 109 over the preceding year, and is the highest
in the history of the College. In this total were counted all students who
had been in attendance at any time during the year. In the Summer School
of 1903 there were enrolled 41 students whose names were not found else-
where in the year's enrollment, and they were included in the above total.
The following table shows the number of students in each department,
with the corresponding figures for the three preceding years :

Of the 1,618 students enrolled last year, 1,562 came from 42 states
and territories in the United States, and 56 came from 15 foreign coun-
tries. The State of Ohio furnished 825 students, about 51 per cent, of
the entire number. The other states which sent the largest numbers of
students were as follows : Illinois 121, Michigan 82, New York 78, Penn-
sylvania 73, Iowa 66, Indiana 54.

Comparing the six states above mentioned, the increase from Michi-
gan is most noteworthy. While the general increase of students during the
last five years has amounted to 22 per cent., the increase from Michigan
in the same period is about 52 per cent.

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The variation in enrollment during the last twelve years is shown in
the chart which follows:

THE ENROLLMENT IN ODERLIN COLLEGE FOR THE LAST TWELVE YEARS

IMC 095 I694 AM 1696 IS97 096 1699

IMt 1696 1894 1899 1699 1697 1898 1699 1900 1901 1902 I90B 190

1100

MOO

1900
MOO
1500
ItOt

I70O

STUDENTS FROM OHIO

The proportion of Oberlin students who come from the state of Ohio
has remained very nearly constant for the last eight years:

Year

1896-97

1897-98

1898-99

1899-1900

1900-01

1901-02

1902-03

1903-04

Total

Per c«»nt.

Total

from Ohio

1283

645

^Jm

1310

680

5l"/«

1208

603

49"/«

1323

659

49^/m.

1357

682

S0^/«

1382

689

497.-

1509

756

50^/-

1618

825

so"/-

THE NUMBER OF MEN IN OBERUN

The relative number of men in the entire institution showed a gain
over the preceding year. There has been but slight change in the propor-
tion during the last six years.

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Entire Institution:

Number of Total

Men Enrollment Percentage

1898-99 477 1203 39V«»»

1899-1900 SH 1323 39V«»»

1900-01 532 1357 39"/«»»

1901-02 526 1382 37"/iii

1902-03 556 1500 3^/i~

1903-04 on 1618 27 /tm

In the College department, however, the relative number of men has
suffered a decrease in the last few years, as will be seen from the following
table:

College department:

Number of

Men Enrollment Percentage

1898-99 179 419 42"/i»

1899-1900 190 417 A^/m

1900-01 197 428 46 /»•

1901-02 242 499 48f*/«»

1902-03 267 578 46"/ii»

1903-04 279 633 44Vi«>

In this connection, it should be noted that there seems to be a further de-
crease in the year 1904-05. The figures for the fall term of 1904 show 285
men out of a total enrollment of 652, the percentage being thus seen to be
43"/«».

ENROLLMENT FIGURES — ^FALL, I904

While this report is supposed to cover the college year of 1903-04, it
has seemed best to present also a statement of the enrollment for the Fall
term of the present year, corrected to the date of issue of this report
[November 9, 1904]. To the figures for this year have been added the
corresponding statistics for the last seven years.

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The Colleee—

Post-Graduate

108

131
IS4
191

99
no

139

320

13
103
102

139

174

5
81

86
"7
163

67
83
97
142
27

79
67
89
127
28

118

7
83

Seniors

Juniors

R6'

SoDhomores.

126

Freshmen

College Specials

The Seminary

The Academv.

652

50
325

455
23

[50]

621

35
279
456

[39]

573

34
285
395

[27]

476

30
242

386
38

[18]

421

43
285
353
27

[I]

397

34
289

351
27

402

36
286
293

418

52
162

The Conservatory of Music

Drawing and Pamting

314

9
13

•Teachers' Course in Physical
Training

•

1505

1402

1301

1172

1 129

1104

1044

1168

*Siiice X900the students in the Teachers' Course in Physical Training have been in-
cluded in the total of the College Department.

It will be noted that the Freshman class this fall is not so large as
it was last year, but the total enrollment in the College department shows
9 gain of 31. The Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes are larger than
ever before in the history of the College.

Striking gains have also been made in the Seminary and Academy
departments.

NUMBER OF COLORED STUDENTS IN OBERLIN

The Commissioner of Education, at Washington, requires a report
each year of the number of colored students in the institution. The fol-
lowing report covers the year 1903-04:

Men

The College 8

Tlie Academy 12

The Theological Seminary 2

The Conservatory 4

Drawing and Painting i

37 37 64

Colored students formed slightly less than 4 per cent of the total enroll-
ment.

Women

Total

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COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

The enrollment in the College Department for the year 1903-04, as
published in the final edition of the catalogue, was as -folloiws :

Men Women Total

Graduates 10 7 17

Seniors 53 50 103

Juniors 50 61 iii

Sophomores , 58 80 138

Freshmen 94 129 223

Specials 14 ttj 41

279 354 633

Analysis of College Enrollment

1903-04

The following table shows the number of students who studied in the

College Department in former years, as well as those who entered the
College Department for the first time :

Men

Wo-
men

Total

Per
cent, of
Whole

No.

In College department last year

154
II

175
6
29
2
0
I

141

329
17

65
4

[

216

52.0

2.7

10.3

In College department in former years

In Academv aenartmeDt last vear

In Academy department in former years

In Theol. Seminary last year

In Conservatory 01 Music last year

New students never before enrolled in Oberlin

34.2

279

354

633

100.

From this table it will be seen that 346 students had been enrolled
previously in the College department, while 287, representing more than
45 per cent of the total enrollment, were new students in that department.

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Classification of New Students

The 287 new students who were admitted to the College department
were classified as follows:

•

Men

Women

Total

Admitted as Post Graduates

7
88

4
2

122

5
6

** •* Seniors

•• Juniors

** ** Sophomores

210

«« •• Preshmen

" " Specials

172

287

In addition to the 210 new Freshmen shown in the preceding table,
there were 13 others whose names were listed in the Freshman Class, who
were Freshmen the year before, and failed to advance to the Sophomore
Qass. The total number of all Freshmen as shown in the catalogue was

223.

Forty-seven new students were admitted to higher rank than that of
Freshman. This is an increase over the preceding year of more than 50
per cent, and a gain in four years of more than 160 per cent. This increase
in the number of students who come to Oberlin College with advanced
classification is one of the most significant developments of the recent
years. That the facts may be made somewhat more clear, I add at this
point a table comparing the preceding figures with those of recent years.
Similar statistics for years prior to 1900-01 do not seem to have been
kept on record.

1903-04

1902-03

1901^)2

1900-01

Admitted as Post Graduates.

5
t

13
23

4
6

** ** Seniors

'* ** Juniors

** *' sophomores

•• " Freshmen

210

168
33

165

18
150

" ** College Specials

287

231

207

168

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StUDEKtS ADMtTTEt) TO ADVAKCED STAKdINC

Of the forty-seven new students who were admitted to higher rank
than that of Freshman, thirty-eight came from the following colleges and
universities :

Allegheny College, Pa., (i)

Beloit College, Wis., (2)

Colorado College, Colo., (i)

Drake University, Iowa, (i)

Greenville College, 111., (i)

Iowa College, Iowa, (i)

Lake Erie College, O., (2)

Lewis Institute, 111., (i)

Marietta College, O., (i)

Massachusetts Agricultural College, Mass., (i)

McKendree College, 111., (i)

Middlebury College, Vt., (i)

Mount Holyoke College, Mass., (i)

Ohio State University, O., (2)

Ohio Wesleyan University, O., (i)

Olivet College, Mich., (i)

Pacific University, Ore., (2)

Rockford College, 111., (i)

Sendai College, Japan, (i)

Tabor College, Iowa (i)

University of Chicago, 111., (i)

University of Michigan, Mich., (i)

University of Minnesota, Minn., (i)

University of Rochester, N. Y., (i)

University of Washington, Wash., (i)

University of Wisconsin, Wis., (2)

University of Wooster, O., (i)

Washington State Normal School, Wash., (i)

Wellesley College, Mass., (i)

Western Reserve College for Women, O., (i)

Westminster College, Pa., (i)

Whitworth College, Wash., (i)

Yankton College, S. D., (i)
Six students who were enrolled the previous year in Oberlin Academy
were able to enter as Sophomores. Two of these were Chinese students
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who were given the rank of Sophomore for work done hy them in Tung
Chow College in China. The other four did not have sufficient credits
to secure the Freshman classification at the beginning of the year, but
were ranked as Academy students with advanced credits, and by doing
extra work during the year, they were able to secure classification the
succeeding year as Sophomores with deficiencies. Advancement in classi-
fication in some such way as this is made very easy by enrollment for
summer work in the Oberlin Summer School.

One student was admitted to the rank of Sophomore by reason of
an extra amount of preparatory work done in a five-year high school
course.

One student, who had studied in Oberlin Academy in former years,
was able to secure classification as a Senior because of further study in a
normal school and in Oberlin Theological Seminary.

One student was given the rank of Junior for work done at Wheaton
College and later while enrolled in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

STUDENTS ADMITTED AS FRESHMEN AND COLLEGE SPECIALS

It is of interest to note where the new Freshmen and College Specials
received their preparation for College. Three of the College Specials had
studied in other colleges, and were really of higher rank than Freshmen.
Making this deduction, there were 210 Freshmen and 27 Specials of the
rank of Freshmen, a total of 237. Of these, 63 came from Oberlin Acade-
my, and 174 came from 134 high schools, academies, and other institutions.
The schools. 23 in number, which sent more than one representative
were as follows:

Akron High School, Ohio 2

Ashtabula (Harbor Special) High School, Ohio 3

Bridgeport High School, Conn 2

Chardon High School, Ohio 3

Chicago (Hyde Park) High School, 111 2

Qeveland (West) High School, Ohio 3

(^oimeaut High School, Ohio 2

Creston High School, Iowa 2

Dayton (Steele) High School, Ohio 2

Denver (East) High School, Colo 2

Elyria High School, Ohio 8

Grand River Institute, Ohio 2

Jamestown High School, New York 3

Kendallville High School, Ind 2

Lorain High School, Ohio 4

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Mansfield High School, Ohio 3

Northfield Seminary, Mass 2

Oberlin High School, Ohio 2

Perkiomen Seminary, Pa 3

Pittsburgh (Central) High School, Pa 2

Toledo (Central) High School, Ohio 2

Toulon Academy, 111 2

Wellington High School, Ohio S

The III following schools were represented by one student each:
Anaconda High School, Mont.
Atlantic High School, Iowa.
Aurora (Central) High School, 111.
Baldwin University, Ohio.
Bliss Electrical School, D. C
Bridgeport High School, Ohio.
Brooklyn (Erasmus Hall) High School, N. Y.
Bucyrus High School, Ohio.
Cadillac High School, Mich.
Case School of Science, Ohio.
Cherokee High School, Iowa.

Chicago (English High and Manual Training) School, 111.
Chicago (John Marshall) High School, 111.
Cincinnati (Walnut Hills) High School, Ohio.
Cleveland (Central) High School, Ohio.
Qeveland (East) High School, Ohio.
Cleveland (Lincoln) High School, Ohio.
Columbus (North) High School, Ohio.
Council Bluffs High School, Iowa.
(x>rtland High School, Ohio.
Cuyahoga Falls High School, Ohio.
Denver (West) High School, Colo.
East Aurora High School, 111.
East Cleveland High School, Ohio.
Eaton High School, Ohio.

Edinboro (Northwestern) State Normal School, Pa.
Elgin High School, 111.
Elk Point High School, S. D.
Fort Worth High School, Texas.
Fostoria High School, Ohio.

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Fremont High School, Neb.

Geneseo State Normal School, N. Y.

Geneva High School, Ohio.

Glenwood High School, Minn.

Grand Rapids High School, Mich.

Great Falls High School, Mont.

Greenville High School, 111.

Greenwich High School, Conn.

Hartford City High School, Ind.

Hillsdale High School, Mich.

Howard University, Preparatory Department, D. (*,

Huntsburg High School, Ohio.

Independence High School, Iowa.

Jefferson High School, Ohio.

Kansas City (Central) High School, Mo.

Kenton High School, Ohio.

Kewanee High School, 111.

Kingman High School, Kans.

Ludington High School, Mich.

Livingston High School, Mont.

LaSalle High School, 111.

LaGrange High School, 111.

Lakewood High School, Ohio.

Massillon High School, Ohio.

Mercersburg Academy, Pa.

Mfddletown High School, N. Y.

Moline High School, 111.

Montpclier High School, Ohio.

Morrison High School, 111.

Mt Pleasant High School, Ohio.

Napoleon High School, Ohio.

New L3rme Institute, Ohio.

Niagara Falls High School, N. Y.

Norfolk High School, Neb.

North Tonawanda High School, N. Y.

Norwalk High School, Ohio.

Oakland City College, Ind.

Ohio Normal University, Ohio.

Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio.

Ottawa High School, Ohio.

Peoria High School, 111.

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Perth Amboy High School, N. J.
Pollock Stephens Institute, Ala.
Portland High School, Ind.
Pueblo High School, Colo.
Pulaski High School, N. Y.
Ravenna High School, Ohio.
Red Oak High School, Iowa.
River John High School, Nova Scotia.
Robert College, Constantinople.
Rollins College, Fla.
Rushville High School, 111.
Rushville High School, Ind.
St. Charles High School, 111.
St. Joseph High School, Mo.
St. Mary's High School, Ohio.
St Paul (Baldwin Seminary), Minn.
Salem High School, Ohio.
Sandusky High School, Ohio.
Shelby High School, Ohio.
Sherburne High School, N. Y.
Sioux City High School, Iowa.
Somerset High School, Ohio.
South Bend High School, Ind.
South Chicago High School, 111.
^>encer High School, Iowa.
Stafford High School, Conn.
Sterling High School, 111.
Stoughton High School, Wis.
Vinton High School, Ohio.
Wahoo High School, Neb.
Warren High School, Pa.
Washington (M. St.) High School, D. C
Waterford High School, Pa.
Webster High School, S. D.
West Hartford High School, Conn.
Wheaton High School, 111.
Woodbine Normal School, Iowa.
Wooster University, Ohio.
Worcester High School, N. Y.
Youngstown (Rayen) High School, Ohio.

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Requirements for Admission to the College DejMrtment

The experience of another year leads me to believe that the admission
requirements which became effective in September, 1901, are entirely satis-
factory.

Referring to the table on page 100, it will be noted that 240 students were
admitted under the classification of Freshmen and College Specials. In
the cases of seven of the Specials the exact credits were never definitely
determined. The preparation of the remaining 233 new students has been
carefully studied, and the results recorded in the following tables.

Amount of Entrance Credits of the Freshmen

The table of percentages which follows shows roughly, (i) students
who were conditioned at entrance, (2) the students who exactly met the
admission requirements, and (3) the students who entered with more
than 15 units of credit. A "unit" of work for entrance comprises four
recitation hours a week for one year, and five periods of forty-five minutes
each will be accepted as an equivalent.

1908.04

1902^

lflOl-0

85 students presented between 14 and 15 units

42 " *• 15 units „

76 *• " between 15 and 16 units

30 ** •' more than x6 units

36.5 jr
18.0 "

3^.6 "

12 9"

34.7*
17.1 ;

25.0 "

32.3*
18.4 •'
17.9 ;;
31.4 "

233

100

In my report last year, attention was called to the following vote of the
Committee on Admission — ^"That from and after September, 1903, not more
than sixteen units of admission credits will be granted to any student
whose preparatory work in high school (or academy) covered only four
years in time." We are particularly pleased with the year's experience
«with this rule. An immediate result has been a decrease of nearly half
in the percentage of students who enter the college with more than 16
units of credits, and we are now much more certain that the c<rilege credits
which are allowed for excess entrance units are worthily granted. The
30 students who were admitted last year with credits exceeding 16 units
had in every case preparatory work covering four full years, and an ad-
ditional year either in Oberlin Academy, or as a post-graduate in a high
school, or in one of the smaller colleges.

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The details of entrance credits of these students follow :

Units Preeented

From
Outside
Sehools

From
Oberlin
Academy

4
4

13
7

5
6

4
36

2
6

25
12

4
18

171

Total

14 units

I4i

14K "

14H "

\f :r;;::::::::;::

154 •:

15K •*

I5H ••

i5% ••

15J

More than 16 units

31
10

7
18

X3
6

4a
5
8

18
II

29
30

333

Subjects Presented by Freshmen.

History, Twelve students failed to meet the minimum requirement
of one unit in History. Nearly all of these came from Oberlin Academy.
Students who present less than one unit in the subject of History are
required to elect courses in History in the College to make up the de-
ficiency. Forty-eight students presented the minimum of one unit, and the
remaining 172 presented more than one unit. Of these 16 presented three
or more units. It is the preference of the Committee that ilot more than
three units of work in History be presented for entrance.

Mathematics. The full requirement of three units was presented by
177 out of 233 candidates. Fifty-six students were admitted with condi-
tions in Mathematics. Of these 12 were conditioned a half unit in Algebra,
21 a half unit in Solid Geometry, 15 with a half unit each of Algebra and
of Solid Geometry, while 8 were conditioned upon the last book of Solid
Ge9metry, the condition in this case being equivalent to about one-sixth of
a unit. Conditions in Mathematics are made up by enrollment in classes
in Oberlin Academy. Of the 62 students who entered from Oberlin
Academy, 15 had anticipated the subject of Freshman Mathematics by
electing it while enrolled in the Academy Department.

The men who enter college are relatively better prepared than the
women in the subject of Mathematics. Fourteen men out of 94 had en-
trance, conditions in Mathematics, being about 15 per cent Forty-two

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women out of 137 had similar conditions, being slightly more than 30
per cent

It is also very noticeable that the students who take 'the classification
of "College Specials" are very likely to be those who have conditions in
Mathematics and are unwilling to meet the Mathematics requirements of
the regular course.

Latin, The minimum requirement is two units. Three students pre-
sented no Latin, and 7 others presented less than the minimum. Fifteen
students presented two units. The preference of the Committee on Ad-
mission is that students should present four units in Latin, and 119 candi-
dates (slightly more than 50 per cent.) presented this amount of Latin.
Ten students presented work on which more than four units was allowed.
These figures show no change from 1902-03.

Students who present less than two units of Latin are required to elect
work in Oberlin Academy to meet this minimum. Where a student pre-
sents more than two units, but less than four, the Committee on Admission
urges, but does not require, the election of Academy courses in Latin.

Greek. Greek is optional and the number od applicants who present
It seems to be growing smaller each year. There were only 53 students
out of a total of 233 who presented work in this subject, the proportion
being 22 8-10 per cent, as compared to 38 2-10 per cent in 1902-03 and
36 3-10 per cent in 1901-02. Of the 171 students who entered from out-
side schools, only 30 presented Greek, being 17H per cent. Of the 62
students who entered from Oberlin Academy, 23 presented Greek, 37
per cent. The subject of Greek was presented by 31 i-io per cent of the
men, as compared to lyyi per cent of the women.

German. German is optional. The total number of applicants who
presented German was 144, being 61 8-10 per cent, as compared with
63 4-10 per cent, in 1902-03. Forty-nine students presented one unit or
less, 27 presented between one and two units, 49 presented two units, and
19 presented more than two units. The Committee on Admission prefers
not to grant more than two units of entrance credit in this subject

French. French is optional and the number of applicants who present
French is small, smaller even than in the case of the Greek. There were
45 students who presented French, the per cent being 19 3-10. This shows
a slight gain, the corresponding figure for 1902-03 being 17 7-10 per cent
Very few outside schools seem to prepare students in this subject, the per
cent, from outside schools being only 13 3-10.

Sciences. The minimum requirement in Science is one unit. It is
recommended that applicants present at least one Science course *which

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has covered a complete year, submitting satisfactory laboratory note-books,
but the Committee still allows credit for term courses and half year
courses. There were only 8 students who did not meet the minimum re-
quirement Two of these students had had no Science preparation, and
the other 6 had had less than a year of Science work. Students who are
admitted with a condition in Science are required to elect Science courses,
either in the College or in the Academy, sufficient to balance the entrance
deficiency.

There were 31 students who presented the mitumum of one unit.
Twenty students presented more than three units. It is the preference
of the Committee on Admission that not more than three units of work
be presented in this subject

English. Two hundred and nine applicants, representing 90 per cent,
met the full requirement of three units in the subject of English. Of
this number 28 received credits slightly in excess of three units in con-
sideration of preparatory work covering more than three years. Fourteen
students entered from Oberlin Academy with excess credit in English,
and 14 from outside schools. Twenty-four students presented less than
the minimum requirement, 12 men and 12 women. Students who are re-
ceived with conditions in English are required to elect preparatory courses
in Oberlin Academy to make up the deficiency.

The Freahman Electives

Beginning with the year 1901-02 a new vote went into effect concern-
ing the work of the Freshman year. Mathematics, English Composition,
and Bible, aggregating 7 hours, are continued as absolute requirements,
and the remainder of the work is to be chosen from a limited group of
subjects known as Freshman electives. The Freshmen are asked to elect
two of the following subjects — Greek, Latin, German, French, and Bio-
logical Science. The science can be either Zoology or Botany. No student
is allowed to elect both beginning German and beginning French.

The results of the elections of 184 of the Freshmen, during the first
semester of 1903-04, are shown in the following table, to which are also
added for reference the elections of 152 students last year, and 149 the
preceding year.

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Freshman Latin and beginnins: German....
•• *• advanced **
** ** beginninfi^ French....
** ** advanced *•
*• •• beginning Greek..,...,
•* •• advanced **
" •• Science

Academy Latin and beginning German...,
•* •• advanced **

** *• beginning French

*• •* advanced •*

*• *• beginning Greek

•* *• advanced **

*• *• Science

Advanced Greek and beginning German..
*• *• advanced ••

** ** beginning French ...

•' ** advanced *•

Advanced German and beginning French
** *• advanced **

•• •• Science ,

•* ** beginning Greek..

Beginning German and advanced French
*• ** Science ,

Beginning French and Science ,

Advanced •• •*

* * • • beginning Greek. . .

Beginning Greek and Science

'* German and beginning French

Irregular, not considered in this study

IMS-Oi

17
23
i6
7
4
21
10

3
6

3
I
I
3
3
o
I
o
I
12

3
18

I
6

6
4

i9oe-<tt

4
14

4
13

I
II

3
i3

1901-02

3
2

6
o

3
o

5
I

I
6
I
2
8
4
17
o
2

10
o
o
o
o
i6

164

165

A considerable number of those marked "irregular" did not carry full
work, omitting one of the Freshman electives. A portion of this number
were thus irregular because of health, and a larger number because of
entrance deficiencies which were made up in place of one of the Freshman
studies. Several students enrolled at the beginning of the second semester
and were necessarily irregular for this reason.

It will be seen that 118 students elected Latin, 64 per cent., as com-
pared to 6;^ per cent last year.

The least desirable combinations in the above table are those which
combine beginning courses in German, French, and Greek, with electives in
Science — ^least desirable because they involve dropping the language or
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mendation of the College officers is unifonnly for the continuance in Col-
lege of subjects presented for entrance. There were i8 students who
elected these least desirable combinations, but twelve of this number pre-
sented only one language (Latin) for admission, and dropped it to take up
modem language work.

One hundred and eight students presented two languages for entrance.
Of this number 43 elected the same languages, 38 dropped one of the
original languages to take up a third, 23 dropped one of the languages to
take work in sciences, and 4 dropped both languages, electing in their
place a third language and a course in science.

Thirty-four students presented three languages, and of this number
27 continued two of them, 4 continued one of the languages and elected
science, 3 continued one of the languages and elected the fourth language,
and I dropped all three languages presented for entrance and elected the
fourth language and science.

One student presented four languages for admission to the College
and elected two of them in the Freshman year.

Non-return of College Students

Referring again to the table on page pg, it appears that 154 men and
175 women, a total of 329 students, who had been in the College depart-
ment during the year 1902-03, returned for the year 1903-04. Five of these
were graduates in June, 1903.

The following table gives the details of losses in the various classes :

In Catal
1902-(

Graduates 13

Seniors 1Q2

Juniors 102

Sophomores 142

Freshmen 176

Specials 43

578 109 324 14s

Five of the Seniors who received degrees returned for graduate work
in I903-<M.

Of the 578 students enrolled in 1902-Q3, 109 received degrees. De-
ducting this number and also deducting the six post-graduates who did not
return, we have a total of 41^ students who should ideally have returned
to Oberlin for College work in 1903-04. Three hundred and twenty-four of

111

Beotived
DegreeBlSOS

Betnraed
1908-OA

DidnotBetnra

100

IQ2

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this number returned, and 139 did not return. The loss of 139 out of a
total of 463 seems to be entirely too large, the percentage of loss being 30^
as compared to 23.6 per cent, during the preceding year.

In my report of last year I mentioned my purpose to write to the
students who had not returned asking for the reasons which had influenced
them. T6 my inquiries a good proportion of the students made careful
replies, and I present at this point a tabulation of the reasons, tiie informa-
tion tabulated being either given directly by the students, or by college
officers who were in touch with the students :

Men

Women

Total

Men

Womeo

Total

Lack of Money

I
16

Health

4
30

Illness at Students* Homes..

To other Colleges

Because of orevious olan

4
2
2
I

3
4

4
0

I
I
5
I
2

4
4
3
3
6

4
6

To enter professional schools

To enter technical schools

To live nearer students' homes..

Dissatisfied in Oberlin

To get I year away from Oberlin
No reasons given

7
2

I
II

3
0

2
3

2
18

To Oberlin Conservatory of Music
To go into business

5
6

Tocro into missionarv work

Faihire in scholarship or otherwise
tmdesirable

Married (not allowed to return^ ....

Came merelv for one vear

No reason Icnown

139

Of these 139 students, 18 have enrolled in the College department dur-
ing the present year of 1904-05, having dropped their work merely for the
year 1903-04.

I suspect that a considerable number of the students who gave no
reason for their non-return dropped their college courses either because
of poor work done while in Oberlin or because of lack of money. I suspect
also that several of those who assigned ill health as a reason for non-
return were probably more influenced by these two considerations than
by that of health.

The losses to other colleges were not so many in number as the gains
from other colleges.

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Statistics of Instruction in the College Department, Year of 1903-04

As used in the following table, an "Instruction Unit" means the in-
struction furnished to one student in which recitations are held once a
week for one semester— in other words, an "Instruction Unit" represents
one student in a one-hour course for one semester. To illustrate — z. five-
hour course in Political Economy enrolling 55 students is here counted as
representing 275 instruction units; a three-hour course in Surveying, en-
rolling 10 students, represents 30 instruction units. The table which fol-
lows shows the instruction furnished during the year 1903-04, and I have
added for comparison the corresponding figures for the three preceding
years.

Departments

Anatomy

Astronomy

Bible, Theol. and Evidences

Bibliography

Botany

Chemistry and Mineralogy ..

Classical Archaeology

Economics, Sociology and

Pol. Science

English Composition

English Literature

French

Geology

German

Greek

History

Italian

Latin

Mathematics

Oratory

Philosophy and Pedagogy...
Physical Training (for credit)

Physics

Physiology

Spanish

Zoology

Teachers' Course in Physical

Training

5
3
9

14
22

5
14

15
12

7
I
o
7

—

I
8

II
6

86
138

30
34
36
60
20
46
26
37
4
50
54
18
48
36
99
5
o
97

Students

204

190

182

341
188
141

26
167

176

95
309

209

142

103

9
268

130

107

69
462
356
244

22
242

243
6

295
252
28
201
218

138

13
18
472
61
131
320
131

251
803

544

385
48

409
117
419

390'
561;

80
410
360
100

241

2'as
5^

39
54
954
122
408
1556
262

769
1557
1358

IIQ7

174
1333

439

1141

1236

1624

211
1327

360

455

140

776

13s

2a8

36
27

757

172

1212

108

696

I2;)I
1434

866
167

1208
425

1523
o

1276

1798
323

1340
323
418

125

36
598

24
48

679
14
187
960
179

650
848

1241
902
178

1082

477
1419

1058

1715

432

1042

335

130

514

36
338

92
381

533
290

621
691
934
839
160
880

573

1240

1 105

1393

305

984

327
o
o

227

Totals 231 986 276936046373 17655 16177 14114 11961

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The column marked 'Tiours of teachers' time" includes all the time
spent by the teachers, whether in class room recitations or in laboratory
instruction.

In the two semesters of 1903-Q4, there were 231 classes. The total
enrollment of students in these classes was 6,373, the average being slightly
more than 27. The corresponding figure for 1902-03 was 28.

A gain of nearly 10 per cent, in the total amount of instruction fur-
nished by the College was to be expected, corresponding to the gain of that
amount in the enrollment of the College department. In some departments,
however, there have been increases far in excess of the normal 10 per cent
above mentioned. The greatest increases in the amount of instruction fur-
nished were as follows:

Botany 137 per cent.

Astronomy 100 "

Bibliography 79 "

French 38 "

Zoology 31 "

Bible 26 "

English Composition 17 "

Economics 11 "

The amount of instruction furnished in Anatomy, Geology, Greek, and
Physiology remained about the same as for the preceding year. There were
slight losses in English Literature, Philosophy and Pedagogy, and Latin,
and decided losses in History and Mathematics. The large losses in these
two departments are explained by the absences of Professor Johnston and
Professor Andercgg.

In comparison with the corresponding figures for three years ago
(1900-01), there are the following striking increases in the amount of in-
struction furnished:

In Zoology, a gain of 244 per cent.

In Chemistry and Mineralogy, a gain of 192 "

In Bible 182 "

In English Composition 125 "

In German 52 "

The gain in enrollment in the College department during the same
period of three years was 47 9-10 per cent.

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Instniction Ghren in Oberlm Academy, Year 2903-04 .

The instruction furnished in Oberlin Academy during the year I9Q3-<H
is shown in the table which follows. The Academy is still on the term plan
and the table is figured accordingly. An Academy instruction unit means
the instruction furnished to one student in a one-hour course for one term.
It represents two-thirds of a College instruction unit

The total number of different classes taught in the Academy during the
year was 175, and the enrollment in them was 3,845, an average of 22 to
each class.

Bible

Botany

Declamation..

English

French

German

Greek

History

Latin

Mathematics .

Physics

Zoology

•^1

14
6
6

28
5
3

Ji2 o
2

15
27
12

135
55
70
30

24
162

"3
56
27

Studbmts

409
22

64
611

136

305

364

Totals 175 726 I 2179 ^^6 3845 12596 12520 10480

259

524

102

120

241

223

668

1135

139

256

99
170

546

587

4S-

668
180
168

3247
595

1280

495
680
2755
2084
300
144

IIpI

573
o

116
3022

840
1320

785

336

3040

2012

476

570

91
2309

545
1460
1045

376
2520
1380

184
o

The increases are in Sciences, History, Mathematics, and English.
There are decreases in all foreign languages.

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FINANCES

For the last six years I have held the graduate managership of the
Athletic Association, and I believe that the work has been of some value
to the College as well as of much pleasure to myself.

The Athletic Association lost money on its season of 1903-04, largely
on account of bad weather affecting the games scheduled for the spring
term. The year closed with a total deficit of $951.51. The surpluses and
deficits of the various teams for the year are as follows:

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' Sorplas Deficit

For Permanent Improvements $ 74 42

Foot Ball, 1903 151 20

Base Ball, 1904 \ $ 25 27

Track Team, 1904 509 42

Basket Ball, 1904 33 81

The Academy Teams, 1903-04 217 33

Interscholastic Meet, 1904 I5 34

The total deficit for the year was $506.93, which, added to the debt
at the beginning of the year ($444.58), made the net indebtedness of the
Athletic Association at August 31st, 1904, $951.51.

There are two improvements which ought to be made at the athletic
fields without delay. There is urgent need of a new cinder track for the
track athletics, and we shall at once go forward with this work at a prob-
able cost of $350. The students have contributed $50 from the proceeds
of the Mock Convention held last June, and the Athletic Association will
probably endeavor to raise the rest of the money by special subscription.

To complete the equipment of Dill Field for foot ball purposes a cov-
ered grandstand is needed, to be located on the west side of the field and
to accommodate about 1,200 spectators. Plans have been drawn for a new
stand such as is needed and preliminary bids have been secured. It appears
that the cost will be about $1,500, but the Association cannot undertake the
construction of the stand until the present debt is removed and the pay-
ments are made for the new cinder track.

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE M. JONES.

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Report of the Librarian

To the President:

Sir: I hereby submit the report for the Library for the year 1903-
04.

GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY.

At the beginning of the year the Library possessed 58,618 bound
volumes, and 35,170 unbound volumes, a total of 93,788. During the
year, 5.120 volumes were accessioned, and 1,581 unbound volumes were
catalogued without accessioning, making the number September ist, 1904,
63,738 bound volumes, and 36,751 unbound volumes, a total of 100,489.

The number of bound volumes added during the year has only once
been exceeded in the history of the Library, and then by only a small
number.

The following table shows the additions by college years since 1894-95 •

1894-95 2,593 1899-00 4,002

1895-96 2,083 1900-01 4,689

1896-97 1,924 1901-02 5,591

1897-98 2,313 1902-03 3,833

1898-99 1,143 1903-04 5,120

In addition to the accessioned and catalogued volumes given above,
the Library has many collections not yet entered on our records or in
any way catdogued.

To get a more complete statement of the extent of the possessions
of the Library, the following table, is given:

CONDITION OF THE UBRARY SEPTEMBER I, I9O4

Boand Unbound Totid

Accessioned and catalogued 63,738 36,751 100,489

Waiting, not yet accessioned or catalogued. 1,078 i8»ooo 19,078
Volumes of newspapers, temporary bind-
ings 1,200 1,200

Maps and Charts 2,500 2,500

64,816 58451 123,267

Even this considerable total does not indicate the sum of the in-
dividual items which the Library possesses, for there arc coins, medals,
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have never been counted, together with the collection of more than 50,000
duplicate volumes, maps and newspapers. More than 150,000 individual
articles are in the possession of the Library.

ADDITIONS OF THE YEAR.

The 5,120 bound volumes added during the year came from the fol-
lowing sources:

By purchase 1,524 volumes.

By gift and exchange 3,596 volumes.

The year has been marked by no single large gift, such as the Thayer
Library mentioned in my last report, but there has been a steady stream
of smaller gifts from a wide number of contributors.

The largest gift in number of volumes came from Mr. John Hawxwell,
of Sparta, Indiana, through the friendly intexxression of the Rev. Chauncey
N. Pond of the class of 1864.

This gift, which numbered several hundred volumes, contained many
quite out-of-the-way things, supplementing our Library in various parts
in a remarkable way.

Mrs. Emma F. Burroughs, widow of the late Prof. Geo. S. Bur-
roughs, D.D., gave us a very large number of valuable books from the
Professor's Library. These books strengthen particularly the department
of Old Testament, but there were many of a general character which were
very welcome.

Mr. C. N. Jones, class of 1871, gave us nearly 200 volumes, besides
many periodicals, from the Library of his mother, for many years a resident
of Oberlin.

From the Oberlin Mutual Benefit Association were received nearly
100 volumes, some of which proved to be of exceptional value and interest

Mr. and Mrs. N. Stone Scott, of Cleveland, of the class of 18S4, sent
a large number of books from the family Library. This gift was especially
strong in local guide books to places in England and on the Continent.
These were particularly welcome, and, have often proved of great service,
particularly to Club Women.

From Mrs. Geo. Gannett, of Needham, Mass., a box of books was
received, many of which proved to be additions to our collection.

President Henry C. King sent a small but exceedingly interesting
collection of i6th Century books, nearly all of which were additions,
which have already proved of great service to the class in the history of
printing.

From Doctors W. C. Bunce, Geo. E. Smith, and Ellen £. Hawkins,
have come very important gifts of medical periodicals and miscellaneous

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books. While for our immediate use these medical periodicals are of little
value, it has seemed worth while to accept such gifts and preserve them
for a possible much greater use in tiie future. The growth of the depart-
ment of Physical Training, together with the increased interest in the
classes in Physiology and Hygiene, make it not improbable that at least
the first year's work in a medical course may some day be given in
Oberlin. Even if this were not probable, it seems not unreasonable to
expect at some future time, if the plans now under consideration for
throwing open the College Library to the public should be carried out,
and a suitable building erected, that a room especially set apart for medical
books might prove of great service to the physicians of the village, and
might develop into a medical reading room for their use.

Miss Lillian Parker, of Cambridge, Mass., has sent us a considerable
number of books from the Library of her father, the late Leonard S.
Parker, D.D., of the theological class of 183&

From Mrs. J. E. Follansbee, Professor Chas. E. St John, Mrs. E W.
Lord, and Dr. D. L. Leonard, have been received important gifts.

From Rev. Horace S. Lyman, of the theological class of 1882, we
received a copy of his monumental History of Oregon, in four volumes, a
welcome and honorable addition to our alumni collection.

Dr. Denton J. Snider, of the class of 1862, has sent us his newly
published volumes as in the past years. One entire shelf of the Library is
now required to contain Dr. Snider's published works.

Important exchanges have been carried on with the Ohio State Library,
Boston Public Library, and the Library of Olivet College.

Through these gifts and exchanges very valuable additions to the
Library in the literature of the past have been secured. The College has
occasion for great gratitude in that year by year a large and ever in-
creasing circle of friends are thus adding to its resources.

It is obvious, however, that while this generosity is an important
supplement to the means used by the College to promote research, it can
never take the place of an expenditure of money to purchase the literature
of the present and of the past.

Through the generosity of the Trustees in appropriating $1,500.00
in addition to the income of the Library endowments it has been possible
for the Library to purchase a larger number of books than usual, and to
appropriate sums, in no case less than $50.00, to each department of
instruction in the College and Seminary. Such an expenditure carried on
from year to year, although altogether inadequate, would nevertheless
meet the absolute necessities of the student body in connection with class
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most of all the Library should endeavor to meet, the furnishing of a
satisfactory equipment for research work to its corps of instructors.

Although in many ways our Library is far superior to that of ten
years ago, yet from this point of view, there has been no essential im-
provement. The average student undoubtedly receives more help from
the Library now than ten years ago, but the average instructor is no better
served than before.

Because of this fact, it seems to me that the one important necessity
which the Library now faces is, how to secure from .some friend the
gift of a large sum of money to be used for immediate expenditure, in
order that the Library may be equipped adequately to meet the necessities
of the teaching force.

Ten thousand dollars is the least sum at which we should aim, and if
some large-hearted friend could be found who could give this sum an-
nually for a considerable period of years, as has been done for Columbia
University, it would be a source of inspiration and of intellectual stimu-
lus to both instructors and students, the value of which would be beyond
calculation. If Oberlin is to take the forward step, which her present
equipment and future prospects would seem to warrant, this it seems to
me would be the first essential to that step, and I trust it may receive
your hearty endorsement.

WORK OF THE YEAR

During the year the library was open 308 days. The average daily
attendance during the school year was 458; during the Summer vacation
^7, The smallest number of persons using the Library in any one day was
29 (August 2y) ; the largest, 761 (April 27). The total number of readers
for the year was 104484. The number of books drawn for home use
was 16,609. The number of persons drawing books for home use during
the year was 1,104,

With the opening of the Library in the evening, of which I shall speak
later, it was necessary to restrict still further the circulation of reference
and "reserved" books. Instead of allowing such books to leave the
Library at 4:30 in the afternoon, as heretofore, they were not allowed to
leave the building until nine o'clock in the evening. It was expected that
this rule would very materially diminish the circulation of books, but this
has not proved to be the case. The number of volumes circulated during
the preceding year was 16,156; during the present year, 16,609.

The Catalogue department catalogued during the year 4,784 bound
volumes, and 1,581 unbound volumes. This required the preparation of
7,931 new cards for the catalogue. In addition 3,729 cards written in

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previous years were withdrawn from the catalogue in order to receive
additions or to be corrected.

The department was unable to keep up with the additions of the year,
and at least 2,000 unbound volumes and 1,000 bound volumes had not been
reached at the end of the year.

I have already referred to the important change made at the begin-
ning of the year, in that the Library was opened in the evening from 6 :oo
to 9 130. That such opening met a distinct need was at once manifest. The
first month in which the Library was open the average attendance eadi
evening was 95, although the electric light was not yet installed. During
the following month, however, owing to the poor quality of the gas
furnished by the local gas company, the attendance fell slightly, but wit^
the installment of the electric lights the number began to increase and
continued to do so each month until, during the last full month of the
College year, the average evening attendance was 166. Nor has this
evening attendance been secured by simply distributing the same number
of visits to the Library over a greater number of hours, because the
number of visits to the Library has been increased over last year by
nearly 25,000, showing either that more people make use of the Library,
or that the same number of people study there more hours per day.

The followmg table shows the attendance and averages by months for
the year:

MomlDflr Afternoon Evening

Total At's Total Av*fir Total Ay'g

September i,479 69 1475 61 413 82

October 4»27i IS8 3»377 125 2,087 95

November 4,208 179 3,370 140 1,858 92

December 3,740 144 3,027 116 1,653 no

January 3451 144 3,092 129 2,024 112

February 4,629 192 4,334 173 2,370 116

March 5,762 213 5,290 203 3,108 135

April 4,911 188 4,607 177 3,177 151

May 5,418 208 4,526 174 3,663 166

June 3,950 152 3,572 143 2,051 153

July 997 36 1,027 41

August 738 31 873 36

The Library is now open from 7:15 in the morning until 9:30 at night,
with the exception of an hour at noon, and one at supper time. There has
been considerable pressure from students to be allowed to remain in the
Library during these hours, and if the College could meet the additional
expense involved it would perhaps be well to keep the Library open con-
tinuously from 7:15 in the morning to 9:30 at night. This, however,
cannot be done with the present force nor with. the present expenditure.

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MCMUC ROOM sbcxtsed; more room nbeded

In my last report, I called attention to the very crowded condition
of the Library, and tihe impossibility of continuing longer without ad-
ditional shelving. I am glad to report that a yery great gain has been
made during the present year. The removal of the Bradley Auditorium
Lectures to Sturges Hall, arranged for by the Faculty in the Spring,
made it possible for Professor Wright to move the Museum from the
lower story of the Library building to the Bradley Auditorium in Peters
Hall. The space thus vacated was immediately filled with additional book
stacks, giving space for at least 10,000 volumes. By a re-arrangement of
the Library, it was possible with this additional space to so place the
books in the first and second stories of the building as to leave room for
the additions of the next two years. It was impossible, however, to do
anything to relieve the crowded condition of the third story of the build-
ing. This story is now overloaded and ought not to have more weight
put into it, nor is there space for additional shelving. The only space in
the present building, not occupied for Library purposes is that still
occupied by the department of Geology and Zoology. It contains the fol-
lowing space : One room 27 ft. x 27 ft., occupied by that department as a
lecture room in common with the department of Bibliography, and tht
classes of Professor G. Frederick Wright If the building were entirely
given over to the uses of the Library it would still be necessary to use
this room for lecture purposes, and it may therefore be left out of con-
sideration. The remaining space consists of one Laboratory room 27 x 27,
one work room of about the same dimensions, and one somewhat smaller
room used at present as the office and work room of the Curator of the
Museum. It does not seem possible for the department to remain in the
building at all, and grant to the Library any of the room now occupied by
it Professor Wright has been most generous in making way for the
Library from time to time as its necessities require and I cannot but
hope that some iriend of the College may speedily be found who will
provide him a building worthy of the work he is doing. The space which
he is occupying is so cut up as to be valuable only for book storage, and
while, if it could be used by the Library, it might meet the growth in books
for a number of years to come, it would not meet the problem which is
quite as serious, perhaps more so, than that of book storage. I refer to
the necessity of providing additional space for the use of readers.

Our reading room is 75 ft x 38 f t It was originally planned to pro-
vide for seventy-five readers. By placing the tables closer together and
by narrowing the aisles, we have succeeded in providing space for one

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hundred and twenty-five readers. This is more than can be comfortably
housed in such a room, whidi is in addition used as the general delivery
room of the building, and contains the desks of the Librarian and Refer-
ence Librarian.

The ventilation of the room is altogether inadequate for its purposes,
nor is the size of the room suitable for the number of readers who are
compelled to use it In order to care for the number of readers we must
seat, we can give to each reader a space less than thirty inches wide. It
is inevitable that work done under such conditions of crowding is unsatis-
factory.

It is evident therefore, that within a very short time, either an exten-
sive addition must be provided to the present building, or a new building
constructed for Library purposes. The present building is not old, and
was admirably suited for its purpose at the time when it was constructed,
but it is not a fire proof building, and it would be difficult to make an
addition to it suited to its needs, and architecturally satisfactory. It seems
to me, therefore, that it would be far wiser to endeavor to secure a new
building and in securing it to make provision for the growth of the next
twenty-five years. To construct such a building so as to admit of future
additions and to make it absolutely fire-proof, will require a very consider-
able sum of money. $125,000.00 is the least sum which will meet our
present needs and if more could be used a far better result would be se-
cured.

In passing from this subject, I would add that through the gift of a
considerable number of donors, among whom I would especially mention
Mr. E. A. West of the class of '43, and Mr. C. M. Hall of the class of
1885, It was possible during the summer to cover the floor of the reading
room and the adjoining stacks with cork carpet, which has wonderfully
reduced noise and increased the efficiency of the room.

A re-arrangement of shelves made it possible to shelve the current
periodicals in the northeast alcove and to bring together again all the sec-
tions of the card catalogue.

The "reserved" books have been placed behind a railing, and those who
use them are required to sign cards. This has practically done away with
the difficulty of lost and mysteriously re-appearing "reserved" books.

All these changes have made the present reading room as comfortable
as it can be under the present conditions, and the use made of it the
present term gives evidence of the satisfaction of the student body in the
changes. Respectfully submitted,

AZARIAH S. ROOT.

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Report of the Dean of G)llege Men

To the President :

Sir: The total enrollment of men in the College department for
the past year was 279, divided as follows:

Post Graduates 10

Seniors S3

Juniors 50

Sophomores 58

Freshmen 94

Specials 14

Total 279

A marked increase is shown in the number of men in the Freshman
class, the class for 1903-04 having nine more men than any preceding
class.

We lost by death one member of the Freshman class during the
year, Donald Horace McCray, of Waterford, Pa.

Three students in the same class were compelled to give up their
work for the year on account of illness. In each case, including that of
Mr. McCray, the illness was one of long standing and not the result of
anything due to the College life or conditions.

Two Freshmen were compelled to give up the College work because of
inability to meet our requirements in scholarship and class-room work.

From the three remaining classes one man was compelled to give
up his work the latter part of the year because of sickness.

There have been no serious cases of discipline during the year. Those
that have occurred have been individual in their nature and have been
caused by offenses that did not in any way represent student sentiment.

There were two cases of suspension. One student was placed upon
special probation for a year and another was advised not to return to
Oberlin, the last case because of scholarship and general attitude.

My own work for the year has been largely directed toward gaining
a personal acquaintance with all the men of the College. It seems neces-
sary under our present arrangement of studies, when no single teacher
comes in contact with the entire student body, that some officer of the
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be largely personal in its nature and must depend for its success upon a
thorough acquaintance with the College men.

The attitude of the men has been most cordial and kind. A gratifying
spirit of response and a willingness to. co-operate in any attempt to ad-
vance the interests of the College or of individuals has been shown. I
believe that responsibility for college discipline should as far as possible
be placed upon the students themselves, and I hope that it may soon be
possible for the executive officers of the College to meet at certain times
a representative number of the students, not alone to discuss problems of
administration, but to in some measure share with them its responsibility.
Such a group of students ought to represent the entire student body and
should be persons chosen by the students themselves. I should suggest the
class officers, the captains of the athletic teams, the representatives of the
different College organizations, literary societies, debate teams, glee clubs,
etc. To them might be added one or two from each class chosen to
represent the students in such a conference.

I suggest as one matter in which we can more definitely enlist student
aid, some form of the honor system in examination and recitation. I
believe that it will be possible for us to place the responsibility for honest
work upon the students and that they will safeguard it in a way that we
cannot

Such a conference as I have suggested will enable us to know student
thought and sentiment and will give to the student body a sense of active
participation in and responsibility for the successful administration of
College legislation.

Respectfully submitted,

E. A. MILLER.

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Report of the Women's Department

To the President:

Sir : It devolves upon me ^o present the report of the Women's
Department for the academic year 1903-04. But as I was not connected
with this work last year, it is impossible to give any adequate account
of what may have been done in this department.
The enrollment for the year was as follows:

College 354

Academy 129

Conservatory 482

Art 22

Summer School 20

The statistics, at the beginning of this year, show a still further in-
Krrease of the college department in comparison with the others.

The problem of suitably housing the young women remains a serious
one; but several new private boarding houses have been added to our
list, and have made it possible to defer the ultimate solution. It is
desirable to decrease the number and increase the size of these boarding
houses, not only because it would greatly simplify the duties of super-
vision but also in order to provide more of the distinctive features of
college life for our young women; and we are endeavoring to work
toward this end in all changes made. In addition to the changes in these
town houses, reference should be made to the departure of Mrs. Qark,
who, after five years of efficient management at Baldwin Cottage, has gone
to take charge of a similar house at Smith College. Her successor, Mrs.
Robson, came to us, peculiarly fitted by her interest in Oberlin and her
experience as the manager of our own Taylor Inn at Lodi, as well as
earlier in a college dormitory, to take her place naturally and satisfactorily
as matron of Baldwin Cottage. It is also a pleasure to express in this
public way our great sense of loss in the absence of Mrs. Lord from
Talcott Hall, and our gratitude for the long years of her life among us;
during the four years since her retirement from the active service of the
college, she has continued to make her home at Talcott Hall; and her
unfailing loyalty to the college, her untiring spirit of helpfulness, her
constant, eager interest in all the student life, and her gracious smile
and genial presence will always be cherished among the richest memories
of the hundreds of students whose lives hers has touched. We wish to
assure her of the sincere loyalty of her college friends and extend our
heartfelt wishes for many more years of the same joy in living and
serving.

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The student government principle is steadily gaining ground, not only
in the larger houses but also in the Conservatory through the efficient
work of their Student Board.

The opening of the Library evenings has proved a great assistance to
the students of the upper classes, and the crowded condition of the Library
indicates their appreciation of this privilege.

The reorganization of the Women's Department, entered upon at the
Trustee Meeting last June, should be referred to here, although a full
report of its workings cannot be looked for until another year. Instead
of one dean, with two assistants, we have now three deans associated in
the work. There is no diminution of responsibility and work, but rather
an increase, since two of the three deans are now teaching; but the re-
distribution makes it possible more perfectly to adjust responsibility and
authority to the actual knowledge of the needs of the individual women.
The gain is perhaps most marked in the Academy, for these younger
girls need more oversight and direction, and yet, as members of the
smallest department, have had rather less care than the others. In the
Conservatory it is also a decided advantage to have more authority in the
hands of Mrs. Woodford, whose personal acquaintance with the women
makes possible a wiser and more sympathetic administration than could
be carried out in any other way. The College women have probably
gained less than the others by this division of labor, for they have
always laid the first claim to the sympathy and interest of the Dean.

There has been no difficulty as yet in securing unity in the adminis-
tration. Frequent consultations are held; and no steps which might
involve unforeseen consequences, are taken by any Dean without the
approval of the others. To the Dean of College Women, as the Chairman
of Deans, and of the Women's Board, belong the power of initiative, the
responsibility for the general policy, and the representation of the Depart-
ment when necessary.

To render our administration more efficient and more orderly, regular
monthly meetings of the Women's Board have been arranged, although
this body holds itself subject to special call, should any emergency arise.
Monthly General Exercises for the young women have also been appointed
by the Deans, the three departments meeting together or separately as
may seem wise.

The spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm which seems to prevail among
all the young women is an auspicious promise of good things.

Respectfully submitted, FLORENCE M. FITCH.

Dean of College and Graduate Women,

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Report of the Dean of the Theological
Seminary

To the President?

Sir : The work of the Dean for the year may be briefly reported as fol-
lows: It has consisted (i) in establishing relationships with the Con-
gregational Colleges that are the natural feeders of Oberlin Seminary, and
in addressing large conferences of College men where men likely to
study for the ministry are found; (2) in serving as a kind of pastor
and consulting friend for all the Seminary students; (3) in securing
money for the student evangelization movement carried on by the students
of the Seminary in the surrounding country; (4) in visiting fields where
students are preaching and doing evangelistic work, in order to help
them study the problems of their respective fields and secure from their
work an experience that shall be a valuable part of their theological
training as well as a great advantage to all this part of the state; (s)
in drawing the alumni more closely about the Seminary. I have carried
also the full amount of teaching in the New Testament chair and three
hours per week of extra teaching in the College. This extra teaching
is reduced the present semester to one hour.

I am convinced, even more fully than last year, that the Seminary is
now confronted by the greatest opportunity in its history. Certain im-
portant changes that have been taking place during the past few years
have conspired to produce this opportunity: College graduation is re-
quired for admission; genuinely post graduate work of a severe order is
now being done, involving the abandonment of the lecture system and the
adoption of something like the seminar plan of work; the old free bene-
ficiary aid system has been abandoned and students are now given oppor-
tunity to earn their expenses by doing work of great educational value
to them in the surrounding country, towns, and cities. As a result the
Seminary has become very attractive to strong college men. This fall,
when many Seminaries are either barely able to hold their own, or are
decreasing in attendance, our Seminary has an increase in the three regular
classes of 30 per cent, over the attendance of last year. The quality of
the men is good. I have not known a time in the past twenty years of
my connection with the Seminary when the average student was equal to
the average student this fall. The men come from twenty different Col-

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leges, situated in twelve states. There is in sight the nucleus of a large
class to enter in the fall of 1905, and I do not see why the increase in
attendance next year may not be fully as great as it is this year. We
have come to a point of general excellence in our curriculum and methods
of work where success depends upon a single circumstance, namely, offer-
ing to prospective students a chance to earn $100 a year. The expense
of a yegr here is only $180, and the chance to earn $100 during the year is
sufficient to enable a man to see his way through. Some of our Congrega-
tional Seminaries have more money for this purpose than they know
what to do with; we have almost nothing. Last year I felt strongly that
the only thing that kept our attendance down was the fact that students
who wished to come here could not afford to do so. Consequently I
guaranteed to every prospective student who needed help a chance to earn
$100. The result has been the increase of 30 per cent, in attendance
mentioned above. To meet this guarantee for the men now on the ground
$1,500 must be raised. Next year students will come in still greater num-
bers, and $2,500 will probably be needed. If the Seminary can only be
given this sum yearly for a few years, there is no reason why it will not
speedily become the large influential Seminary its general excellence fits
it to be.

The important need of the Seminary is therefore an endowment of
$50,000 for undergraduate scholarships, the income to be disbursed in re-
turn for work that shall be educationally valuable to the students, and
that shall make the influence of the Seminary felt in all this region. The
Seminary has not directly profited by the large additions made to the en-
dowment of Oberlin College in recent years. Its plant stands as it has
stood for many years. The time has therefore surely come for a dis-
tinctive Seminary movement that s-hall add $100,000 to the Seminary's
endowment — $50,000 for scholarships and $50,000 for development in other
directions. To get this is no easy undertaking, for the ground has all
been faithfully gone over in the canvass for College endowment. To do
it will require a number of years. The burden that weighs heavily upon
the Theological Seminary Faculty, and especially upon Professor Currier
who has done so much of this work in the past, and upon me as Dean,
is the burden of getting the $2,000 to $2,500 a year necessary to make
things go while the endowment is being raised. I cannot endure the
thought of seeing the Seminary's present opportunity slip away for lack
of $2,000 a year. If this sum can be provided, our present prosperity will
continue, and it will be far easier to raise the endowment. Cannot the
Board of Trustees do something in this emergency? The Faculty is doing
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I said above, this ground has been thoroughly worked in the recent G>1-
lege canvass and the efforts of the faculty are not sufficient. The appeal
is not for the sake of the Seminary alone, but for the churches. Ten
years from now the churches will find themselves without well trained
ministers unless provision is now made for the education of theological
students.

The Seminary has suffered the loss of Professor Julius Bewer, who,
gpreatly to the regret of Faculty and students, left the chair of Old
Testament Language and Literature at the expiration of his term of ap-
pointment in order to accept work in his alma mater, Union Seminary.
Professor Kemper Fullerton has taken up the work left by Professor
Bewer, and is already attaining here the success which so conspicuously
marked his eleven years of service in Lane Seminary.
Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD L BOSWORTH.

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Report of the Principal of Oberlin
Academy

To the President:

Sir: The work of the school year 1903-04 may fairly be counted a
success. The discouraging feature was the failure to hold the advance
which had been made in numbers during the preceding year. This failure
was keenly felt throughout the Academy. The new courses, however,
proved successful and popular. The courses in -Botany and Zoology had
good numbers. The new courses in History attracted large classes.

The effort once more to maintain separate athletic teams in the
Academy, was a satisfaction to the students, and aroused a good degree
of interest among them. It has always been difficult to provide support
for more than the one team., in the various branches of sport in Oberlin.
In spite of earnest efforts, there was quite a deficit in the management of
the Academy teams last year. It is hoped, however, that a better showing
can be made for the coming year. There seems to be little doubt that the
maintenance of these teams is a decided advantage to the Academy.

Since it does not seem possible to employ a regular advertising agent
for the Academy, it has been the purpose of the Principal to accomplish
all that he could, by means of advertising in the magazines, and by careful
attention to all correspondence. The greater part of the summer was
given up to this latter work. It is a satisfaction at the beginning of the
year 1904-05, to be able to report a good degree of progress in the direc-
tion of securing larger numbers of students. For the present year, there
has been a gain of about forty students over the number in attendance a
year ago. There are at present 201 boys, and 124 girls enrolled in the
regular courses of the Academy. Doubtless, the publication of the
Academy catalogrue has helped in some degree to swell the numbers.
It is not easy to know just where or how to advertise. So far as in-
quiries concerning the Academy are concerned, the magazine that was
most successful, brought us some thirty letters. Only three of these
thirty students, however, are now registered in the Academy. Perhaps
other publications would show a larger percentage of actual students,
from the number to whom they brought some word of Oberlin.

Another interesting fact is that more and more, the students of the

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Academy seem to return year after year and to continue their work much
longer than they formerly did. Very few of the boys who were enrolled
in the Academy last year, and who could reasonably have been expected
to return this year, have failed to appear. The interest in Latin seems
not to be decreasing, at least, in the earlier years of the course. Nearly
100 students have been enrolled in the beginning classes this year.

Another point of encouragement is the fact that we have been able
to provide work for every boy who has come to Oberlin this fall, with
the purpose of supporting himself in whole, or in part. For this success,
we are very largely indebted to the Young Men's Christian Association,
and to the General Secretary, Mr. J. E. Sprunger, who has been untiring
in his efforts to help all students who are in need of aid. A large number
of the new students belong to this class, and the beneficiary funds at the
disposal of the Academy, have been drawn upon heavily, in order to give
some aid to the large numbers.

The teachers of the Academy feel that they have gained not only in
the number, but in the grade of students as well, and look forward to
the work of the year with much interest and enthusiasm.

Last Commencement, for the first time, diplomas were granted to the
students who completed the Academy course, and a class of thirty-five
was graduated. The present prospect is, that a somewhat larger class
will complete their work this year.

The boys* literary societies, which last year were given up, have been
revived, and their work is taken up by the students with great enthusiasm.
The girls* society is also beginning the year with good numbers.

It is the earnest hope of the Principal, that ways may be found to
hold all that has been gained in every direction, and that a steady growth
may continue from year to year.

Respectfully submitted,

JOHN FISHER PECK.

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Report of the Director of the Conservatory

To the President:

Sir : The ^ost marked change to be noted in the equipment of the
Conservatory since the last report is the remodeling of the concert hall,
begun after commencement on plans furnished by Mr. A. B. Jennings,
of New York, and now fast nearing completion. It provides a suitable
alcove for the new organ, a stage large enough for a full orchestra, a
convenient waiting room on the left of the stage, and will add about two
hundred and fifty to the seating capacity of the audience room. A new
system of ventilation and lighting is also provided for in these changes.

Our faculty remains essentially the same as last year. Mr. Lindquist
and Mr. Homer return to their work after a year of study in Germany,
and Mrs. F. G. Doolittle is absent for special study in Berlin.

Besides giving their services to any worthy object at home, the musical
activities of our faculty outside of the regular work of the Conservatory
are varied and extensive.

Professor Andrews has given 26 organ recitals, 21 of which were out-
side of Oberlin. He was honored by an invitation to give two recitals on
the great organ in Festival Hall at St. Louis in June. He is the conductor
of a large choral society in Akron, and has given with them three public
concerts.

Three teachers hold important church positions in Qeveland: Mr.
Harroun is director and tenor soloist in the Second Presbyterian Church;
Mr. Upton is organist in the Calvary Presbyterian Church; Mr. Davis is
organist in the Woodland Avenue Church. Mr. Lehmann directs a chorus
choir in the Methodist Church in Elyria, and Mr. Alderfer is organist
and director in the Congregational Church in Wellington.

Professor Kimball and Professor Andrews in the Second Church, and
Professor Heacox and Professor Breckenridge in the First Church, are
maintaining for us at home an ideal church service.

Professor Dickinson has been relieved of his work in piano for the
year 1904-05 that he might write a text book on the History of Music,
which will be published sometime during the year 1905.

Since definite literary requirements for the degree of Bachelor of

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Music have been fixed, our best students are anxious to meet these re-
quirements, and are planning early in their course to make up any de-
ficiencies which may exist. Of 364 women classed in the Conservatory
(not including children who live at home), four had the degree of A. B..
219 were graduates of high schools, and all but 18 had one or more years
of high school training.

In addition to the almost countless recitals by students and teachers,
our musical life has been enriched by the services of the following dis-
tinguished organizations and artists :

Pittsburgh Orchestra,

Cincinnati Orchestra,

Spiering Quartette.

PIANISTS

Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Jonas,

Mr. E. R. Kroeger,

Mr. Harold Bauer,

Mr. Edward MacDowcll,

Mr. Alfred Reisenauer,

Mr. Josef Hofman.

Miss Maria Nichols, Violinist.
Mr. Alexander Guilmant, Organist.

VOCALISTS

Mr. Vernon d'Arnallc,

Miss Marguerite Hall,

Mrs. S. C. Ford,

Mr. Herbert Witherspoon,

Mrs. Corrinne Kelsey,

Mr. Emilio de Gogorza,

Miss Jessica de Wolf,

Miss Mary Louise Clary,

Mr. Carl DufTt.

Mrs. Elizabeth Blodgett,

Miss Shanna Cuming,

Miss Grace Missick,

Mr. George Hamlin,

Mr. Gwilym Miles.

An organization of young women known as the Student Board of the

Conservatory is proving very useful in helping to maintain a high standard

of law and good order. It consists of sixteen women elected by the

Conservatory students, whose helpfulness to the Director, the Dean, and

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to all new students is invaluable. A similar organization of young men
has been formed for the same service.

The following tables show a growth in all departments of our work.

Table showing the number of students during the past year:

Women Men ToUl

Fall, 1903 446 108 554

Winter, 1904 470 117 587

Spring, 1904 382 92 474

Table showing the number of students in both Conservatory and other

departments:

Conserra-

tory and Glassed

other de- Conserra* Classed Conserratory

partments tory elsewhere alone

Fall, 1903 171 458 96 383

Winter, 1904 170 482 105 417

Spring, 1904 127 371 103 347

Table showing the branches taught, with the number of students in each:

Fall Winter Spring

1908 1904 vm

Harmony 254 210 133

Counterpoint, Canon and Fugue ...... 12 7 6

Composition 3 6 7

Harmonic Analysis and Musical Form 19 21 2/^

Ear Training 39 97 65

History of Music 69 82 ^

Pianoforte 451 462 377

Organ 70 75 6&

Singing 280 284 237

Violin, 'Cello and Double Bass 54 51 47

Wind instruments 3 4 i

Public School Music Instruction 9 38 28

Choral Class 105 127 65

Respectfully submitted,

C W. MORRISON.

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Report of the Chairman of the Summer

School

To the President:

Sir: I offer the following report of the Summer School of 1904:

The school was in session from June 23 to August 12; and this,
by teaching three Mondays and with the omission of July 4, gave 39
recitations for full courses.

The Registration List and the Entertainment List will show the
teachers and the lecturers by whose co-operation the school was made a
success. The Registration List also shows that 21 courses were given
in College subjects, four in Academy subjects, and five in Normal sub-
jects. Of the 21 College courses, 14 were taught by Professors of the
College Faculty, three by a Professor from another institution, three by
Oberlin Academy teachers, and one by a College Assistant. The three
classes taught by Academy teachers were open to Academy students and
might be counted as Academy work. Five of the College courses, one of
which was taught by the College Assistant but the other four by the
regular College Professors, were required studies. This leaves ten Col-
lege courses (elective), taught by Oberlin Professors, three more offered
by a Professor in another College, and three taught by Academy teachers
and reckoned either as College or Academy electives. In addition to
these three classes, four purely Academy classes were taught by two Ober-
lin Professors and an Oberlin High School teacher. Five Normal courses
were organized, of which two were taught by the Superintendent of
the Oberlin schools, two by Fellows of the Teachers' College of Columbia
University, and one by a former teacher in the Geneseo (N. Y.) Normal
School.

The number of pupils registered was 117, a considerable advance upon
the attendance in any recent summer. Of this number 12 might be fairly
well reckoned as pursuing Academy studies, while 20 more, who were
students in the Academy or new students pursuing studies of Academy
grade, such as the elementary work in Modern Languages, might raise
the total of students pursuing Academy courses to 32. Eleven students

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seem to have been attracted almost exclusively by the Normal courses.
This leaves 74 students pursuing regular College work. It is notable that
14 of these were Graduate students, while six more were completing
their work for the A. B. degree. It is piain that the presence of so many
advanced students greatly raised the scholarly level of many classes.
Including most of these graduates and most of the Normal students, I
make out a list of 50 names which I do not find in the College Catalogue
for 1903-04. The Academy classes have hardly paid for themselves, and
yet I think it would be good policy to keep up about as many courses as
were offered the last summer as long as we are able to make the school
as a whole pay expenses. The Normal courses also did not pay ex-
penses; but the attendance was fully as large as it was reasonable to
expect the first summer such courses were offered. It seemed at one
time that the attendance would be much larger, — large enough to more
than meet the expenses of these courses. Possibly a second summer would
draw this larger attendance; and as this plan affords us our only present
opportunity for direct contact with the public schools, I trust the experi-
ment wJll be longer continued. We were compelled to draw upon the
Trustees' Guaranty Fund for one-half the expenses of these courses the
past summer, amounting to about $112.

The only other novel feature of the past summer was the doubling of
the number of public lectures and entertainments. As will be seen from
the accompanying list of entertainments, two were given each week on
Tuesday and Friday afternoons, the whole series amounting to fourteen
entertainments. The lecturers and musicians gave their services without
cost to the school; but I think that the entertainments were considered
very instructive and of a high order of excellence. The attendance was
encouraging on the part of the citizens of the village, but only a small
fraction of the members of the school attended any but the musical enter-
tainments. This fact has led some of the teachers to question the wisdom
of attempting so many entertainments in future summers; but my own
judgment is still that on the whole they made up a part of the program
of the school that was attractive, valuable and of a nature so helpful that
it would be a mistake to lessen the number, so long as we are able to
maintain the standard of the past summer in point of interest and value.
Possibly it might be a help to this end if a small sum were charged to
every one for a course ticket. If the students of the school paid some-
thing for the privilege of attendance, they might attend in larger num-
bers, and some very slight recompense might be made to the lecturers and
musicians for their generous offering of service.

I fear that there is a growing disinclination on the part of the regular

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Professors of the College and Seminary to take part in the labors of
the Summer School. In many cases a proper regard for health makes
such participation out of the question ; but it seems to me plain that the
school must continue for the simple necessity of affording to our irregular
students an opportunity to secure regular standing with their classes.
If it must continue, it seems wise to strive to make the school the best
possible in our present circumstances; and that means that every College
teacher who can do so, should take his part in its support.

RegistratioQ for the Summer School of 1904

To-
CoUege Coanes Teacher Hen Women tal

Chemistry Mr. Chapin 7 5 12

Shakespeare Professor Chase .... 10 13 23

Revolution in English Literature Professor Chase 4 14 18

Old English Grammar Professor Chase i i 2

Economics Professor Bogart ... 7 8 15

Economic History of United States.. Professor Bogart ... 3 4 7

Ethics Professor MacLennan 6 4 10

French Land II Mrs. Cowdery 4 9 13

German I and II Mrs. Swing 7 5 12

German III Mrs. Swing 156

Government in England Professor Hall 224

American History Professor Hall 5 7 . 12

English History Professor Hall 5 6 11

College Latin (Vergil) Professor Cole i 4 5

Roman Antiquities Professor Cole 6 4 10

Trigonometry Professor Cairns.... 224

Analytical Geometry Professor Cairns 2 2 4

Hist, of Education Professor MacLennan 3 7 10

School Organization and Administra-
tion Professor MacLennan 4 3 7

Psychology Professor MacLennan 12 5 17

Sociology Professor Bogart ... 8 7 15

Academy Courses

Latin I. and II Professor Cole 235

Latin III. and IV. (Caesar) Professor Cole 3 o 3

Algebra Professor Cairns ... 2 3 5

Eng. Literature Miss Ward i 5 6

Normal Courses

Elementary Methods Mr. Marker and

Mr. Meriam o 7 7

Geography and Nature Study Mr. Marker and

Mr. Meriam i 8 9

Arithmetic Mr. Nye o 8 8

English Grammar Mr. Nye o 7 7

Normal Art Mrs. Lauderdale o 3 3

Total 109 161 270

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Mr. Meriam laid out the work for the two courses in Elementary
Methods, and Geography and Nature Study ; but for good reasons he sent
Mr. Marker as his substitute in the teaching of them. Then Mr. Marker,
after six weeks of teaching, for equally good reasons, turned the teaching
for the last week over to Mr. Meriam.

Lectures and Entertainments, Summer School, 1904

Professor R L. Bogart. Socialism.

Professor A. S. Root. Gutenberg smd the Invention of Printing.

Dr. J. W. Bradshaw. Some Aspects of the U. S. Civil Service.

Professor A. A. F. Johnston. Secrets of the Teacher's Success.

Mrs. Mary H. Hunt The March of Liberty.

Professor S. F. MacLennan. A Trip into the Canadian Wilder-
ness.

Professor G. W. Andrews. Organ Recital.

Professor G. F. Wright The Russo-Japanese War.

Mrs. L. H. Sweet and Mr. H. Harroun. Piano and Vocal Re-
cital.

Professor F. H. Chase. Beginnings of the English Bible.

Mr. G. E. Marker. Training of the Boy.

Rev. G. D. Wilder. The U. S. Monetary Commission in China.

Professor J. A. Bewer. Babylonian Archaeology and its Rela-
tions to the Old Testament.
Aug. g. Dr. H. M. Tenney. Educational Value of Mediterranean Travel.

Respectfully submitted,

L. B. HALL.

June

24.

June

28.

July

12.

July

15.

July

19.

July

22.

July 26.

July 29.

Aug.

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Report of the Director of the Men*s
Gymnasium

To the President :

Sir: The receipts and expenditures of the g3minasiuni for 1903-04
were as follows:

RECEIPTS

From term bills of men in the College, Academy, and Con-
servatory $908 50

From other fees 187 75

From rental 72 79

From interest on endowment ($5,000) 225 00

Miscellaneous 11 08

Total $1,405 12

EXPENDITURES

Teaching (Director's salary not included) $1,320 00

Clerk hire 23 70

Stationery and printing 13 40

Janitor (ten months) and assistance 404 53

Custodian 87 30

Fuel 609 27

Lights 143 30

Water 237 15

Supplies and repairs 291 86

Insurance '. . . 38 98

Telephone 15 00

Special appropriation for new lockers 108 00

Miscellaneous 47 63

Total $3,340 12

Bstimated Aotaal

Expenditures, 1903-04 $2,925 00 $3,340 12

Income, 1903-04 1,240 00 1405 12

Drawn from University funds $1,685 00 $i,935 00

The excess of actual over estimated expenses was due to an increase

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of $50 in the janitor's salary, approved by the Prudential Committee at
the beginning of the year, to an item of $42 overlooked by the general
contractor when his bill was presented for payment in 1901, and to the
unexpectedly large sum required for fuel and for supplies and repairs.
These more than counter-balanced a decrease of $100 in the amount
actually expended for other items and an increase of $165 in receipts. The
budget for the current year allows a.n expenditure of $3,437, including
a special appropriation of $340 for a felt and canvas running track in the
gallery, with an estimated income of $1,375.

The men who made use of the gymnasium in 1903-04 were distributed
as follows:

No. in No. juing In credit In other Not taking
The College — College gymnasium conrtee classes ciass work

Graduates 10 i . . . . i

Seniors 53 4^ 8 9 24

Juniors 50 47 14 6 27

Sophomores 58 55 28 9 18

Freshmen 94 90 39 30 21

Specials 14 13 3 4 6

Total College 279 247 92 58 97

The Theological Seminary 36 27 . . 21 6

The Academy 176 161 i 140 20

The Conservatory of Music 97 52 46 6

Totel, all departments 588 487 93 265 129

Members of the Faculty 21 3 18

High School 19 .. 19

Business College 19 • • '9

Citizens 5 • • 4 i

Grand totals 5Si 96 307 148

These figures show that 82.8 per cent, of the men in all departments
made use of the gymnasium, and 91.8 per cent, of the undergraduates in
the College department. The corresponding percentages last year were 82
and 88.9. Ninety-two College undergraduates, or 34.2 per cent, of the
whole number, were enrolled in the credit courses. Two hundred and six
new students received physical examinations, each lasting forty minutes,
and 39 old students were re-examined, besides the large number of can-
didates for the different varsity and Academy teams who were given
partial examinations, in accordance with our practice, to determine their
physical fitness to engage in intercollegiate or interscholastic contests.

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The teachers in the gymnasium were Mr. Edwin Fauvcr, Instructor in
Physical Training; Mr. Earl F. Adams, Instructor in Physics; Mr. Sceley
K. Tompkins, Tutor in Declamation, and Mr. Dudley B. Reed, Tutor in
History. Classes were organized as follows:

8:30 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday — A credit course intended
for College students only, and running through the entire year. Taught
by Mr. Fauver.

10:30 daily, except on Mondays — Open to students in all departments
during twenty weeks of the year, i. e., November 9-December 19, January
ii-March 26, and April 11-3P. Taught by Mr. Fauver.

2 :oo on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — A credit course similar to
that at 8:30, intended for College students only, and running through the
entire year. Taught by Mr. Fauver.

3 :oo on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — An advanced credit course
intended for College students who have completed one year's work in the
8:30 or 2 o'clock classes. Runs through the entire year. Taught by the
Director.

3 too daily, throughout the year, except on Saturdays — Open to students
in all departments. Two independent classes, one elementary and one
advanced, were conducted at this hour during the twenty weeks specified
under the 10 :30 hour. Taught by Mr. Adams and Mr. Tompkins.

4 :oo daily, throughout the year, except on Saturdays — Open to students
in all departments. Two independent classes, one elementary and one
advanced, were conducted at this hour during the twenty weeks specified
under the 10:30 hour. Taught by Mr. Adams and Mr. Tompkins.

7:30 p. m. daily, throughout the fall and winter terms, except on
Saturdays — Open to students in all departments, and similar to the class
at 10:30. Taught by Mr. Reed,

Students in the Academy were assigned to some one of the classes
coming at 10:30, 3:00, 4:00, and 7:30, and were required to attend at
least three times a week during the twenty weeks mentioned. In the late
fall and winter there was basket ball practice daily between 6:30 and
7 :30 p. m. by the varsity and Academy teams, and between i :oo and 2 :oo
o'clodc daily by the teams of the four College classes. The gymnasium
was also open for general use at 7:30 and 9:30 daily, 2:00 o'clock on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:00 until 5:00 on Saturday afternoons,
and between 8:30 and 10:30 on Monday mornings. It was closed on
Saturday evenings. The cage was open for indoor practice in baseball,
and both basement rooms for handball games, throughout the entire day.

In the winter term of 1899- 1900, the term immediately preceding the
announcement of Dr. and Mrs. Warner's gift of the new building, out of

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a total of 508 men in all departments of the College only 160 were en-
rolled in classes in the old gymnasium. Of this number 117 were Academy
students, required to attend, 36 belonged in the College department, and
the remaining 7 were in the Conservatory of Music. In 1901-02, the first
year in the new building, 374 out of the 501 men enrolled in all depart-
ments made use of the gymnasium; in 1902-03 the number increased to
449, out of a total of 545, and last year to 487 in a total of 588. At the
present time more than half of the students who frequent the gymnasium
belong to the College department, and the regular classes contain more
College than Academy men, although there is no rule requiring the former
to attend.

Since the erection of Warner Gymnasium there has also been a notice-
able increase in the number of men who take their exercise in the form
of athletic sports. Mr. Fauver submits the following, as a conservative
estimate of the numbers engaged in the chief sports with some degree
of system and regularity during 1903-04:

Football (fall) 20

Basket ball (winter).

Baseball (spring) 15

Track athletics (spring)

The varsity and Academy teams spend about an hour and a half daily
in practice, in the case of football and baseball, and one hour four times a
week for basket ball. The track men practice one hour a day, as a rule.
On the class teams practice is less regular and frequent, and least of all in
football, where it would be most desirable. This table does not include
the considerable number of men who appeared occasionally on the athletic
fields for exercise, or as candidates for the regular teams. The local
tennis tournament, in which 30 took part in the spring, should also be
mentioned.

The covering of felt and canvas for the running track, for which $340
was appropriated last year, has given all the satisfaction expected, and
is in almost constant use.

The time has now arrived when much more extensive additions are
demanded. We need room for several hundred more lockers, a special
dressing room .for men on the athletic teams, together with accommoda-
tions for visiting teams, and more floor space for class work and games
— ^a condition which will be met when the north end, as originally planned,
is added to the gymnasium. Although twenty-seven new lockers were set
up a year ago, filling all the space at present available, there are already

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one hundred more men than lockers in the building, and it has therefore
become necessary in many cases to assign two students to a single locker.
The men composing the various athletic teams, and all who practice
with them, return from the field at the hour when the gymnasium is most
crowded with other students, and they cannot use the baths or secure
space in the shower-room for rubbing benches without seriously discom-
moding the regular users of the building. Special quarters in the base-
ment of the north addition, including lockers and showers, with direct
entrance from outside, would relieve this pressure, promote cleanliness
in the general dressing room, and insure proper attention to the members
of our own and visiting teams. The basement would also contain a
special room for boxing, wrestling, and fencing, and this is already needed.
On the first floor there would be a large class room, used also as the
permanent trophy room, and an additional dressing room with space for
two hundred lockers. On the floor above a small hall, 65 by 40 feet, and
one story in height, would give another room for class exercises — at
present two, and even three, independent classes must be conducted on
the main floor at the same time during the crowded afternoon hours—
and it would allow basket ball and other games to be played at almost
any hour in the day without interference with classes. Increased facilities
for recreative exercise indoors are particularly desirable in the case of
older students, and teachers in the various departments, for whose needs
adequate provision is now impossible. Above the small hall, and utilizing
the north slant of the skylight, a group of photographic rooms would be
fitted up, enabling the department to secure valuable records of interesting
and typical cases seen in the examining room, and thus furnishing the
illustrative material required for lectures and demonstrations. The esti-
mated cost of these additions, with equipment, is $25,000.

The General Faculty at a recent meeting approved the recommendation
of the Committee on Men's Gymnasium that beginning with the next
College year the Teachers* Course in Physical Training be extended to
include men as well as women, and that the term bills for the second
semester of the senior year, in the case of such men as elect the course,
be set aside for use in developing this work. For some years there
has been a growing demand for graduates able to take charge of physical
training in smaller colleges, private schools, academies and high schools.
Young Men's Christian Associations, gymnasia connected with institu-
tional churches, and the like. Occasionally it has been possible to meet
requests of this nature by recommending some one from the corps of
student-teachers formerly trained and employed in our own gymnasium;
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permanent in character it becomes the duty of the College to rise to the
opportunity, and to offer more complete and systematic preparation to
prospective workers in this field. According to the plan proposed, those
who enroll themselves for the course will elect, in addition to the work
required of all candidates for a degree, certain general scientific courses in
their freshman and sophomore years, and in the junior and senior years,
besides the course in human anatomy now offered, four hours of work
each semester in special courses, some of them already given to women
in the Teachers* Course. Upon graduation such students will receive the
diploma of the Teachers' Course, together with the usual bachelor's degree.
Respectfully submitted,

FRED EUGENE LEONARD.

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Report of the Director of the Women's
Gymnasium

To the President :

Sir: The women in attendance at the Gymnasium were distributed
as follows:

Graduates i

Seniors 17

Juniors 24

Sophomores 32

Freshmen 59

^Specials 7

Total 140

College students electing Academy classes. . 2$
Academy students for whom the work is re-
quired t 77

Conservatory students electing the work. . 109

Art students electing the work 3

High School and Public School 4

Citizens 2

Total in all departments 360

Three hundred and sixty is a small number comi>ared with the 1,000
women enrolled in the College, but it is all that can be accommo^ted
in the present building. Many are turned away every term for lack of
room^

Physical examinations were given to 224 new students, and 94 old
students were r^-examined. In addition partial examinations were given
to the members of the basket ball teams before they were allowed to play.
The Women's Gymnasium and Field Association was organized in
January, its object being first, to promote interest in the Gymnasium, and
out-of-door sports as a means of securing the recreation, physical de-
velopment and health of its members ; second, to provide and equip a
suitable field for out-door recreation. Its membership was divided into
three classes — charter life members, paying $10.00; resident members,
paying $5.00; and year members, paying $1.00. There were 57 members
of the first, 40 of the second, and 95 of the third class, making a total
membership of 192. One of the events of the Association was a skatinj^

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contest on the Rockefeller Skating Floor. This was greatly enjoyed by
the students and will be made a yearly event. The skating season the last
year was unusually long and in addition to the usual skating, twenty even-
ing parties were given. In the spring the Association took charge of the
out-door basket ball games and contests, also fitted up three tennis courts,
at a cost of about $100.00, and this fall has held a tennis tournament.

By throwing the hall and several of the small rooms on the second
floor of the gymnasium into one, space was made for eighty additional
lockers, thereby nearly doing away with the necessity for having two
persons use the same locker. A much needed study room was also gained
for the students of the Physical Training course. The electric lights are
a great convenience to the late aftemooh classes, and save much time
and labor formerly spent in caring for and lighting kerosene lamps.

The advancement of Miss Wickwire from the position of teacher, to
that of instructor, was a gratifying evidence of the appreciation by the
Trustees of her faithful and valuable work.

The director was chosen a charter member of the American Society
for Research in Physical Education and attended its first meeting in
Boston in April. During July she took courses in Orthopedics in the
Harvard Medical School.

The health record of the past year was not so good as usual. There
were fewer cases of serious illness, but colds, grippe, and measles were
unusually prevalent.

teachers' course in physical training
The receipts and expenditures of the term bills of the seniors in the
Teachers' Course in Physical Training, were as follows:

receipts

From term bills $450.00

Private pupil 37-00

Total receipts $487.00

EXPENDITURES

Teaching $167.40

Books and periodicals 48.13

Apparatus 33.55

Exhibit for St. Louis Fair 23.38

Printing, postage and express 7.27

Remodeling to make room for a study

room 61.67

Furnishing study room 33.15

Music 9.80

Total expenditure ...$384.35

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The number of students in this course in 1903-04 was distribtited
as follows:

Seniors 6

Juniors 7

Sophomores 11

Freshmen 16

Total 40

A comparison of the total enrollment in this course for the last four
years shows the rapid increase in numbers.

Number of students in 1900-01 i

" " " 1901-02 18

" " " 1902-03 27

" " " 1903-04 40

The Freshman class of this year numbers eighteen, and five (four of
whom come from other Colleges) have been added to the present Sopho-
more Gass.

We have accommodations for these larger classes in the first three
years of the course, but we could not provide them during the Senior
year with practice teaching in the present small Gymnasium. The future
must be looked in the face and it will be necessary either to limit the
number admitted to this course, or to have a larger building, giving us
the needed space for additional classes.

During the fall a local society of the American Physical Education
Association was formed. Its membership consists of the special teachers
and the Seniors of the Physical Training course, and of the teachers in the
Men's G3minasium.

At the urgent request of those in charge of the department of
Physical Training at the St. Louis Exposition, an exhibit was prepared
and forwarded.

In May the Seniors of the Physical Training Course gave an ex-
hibition in the Men's Gymnasium for the benefit of the fund for the Rec-
reation Field.

To give more opportunity for practice teaching. Gymnastics have
again been introduced into the Grammar grades of the public schools, and
placed under the charge of Miss Lora D. Fowler, a graduate of the two
years* course in Physical Training, who is now completing her College
course. By a special vote of the Prudential Committee, a scholarship has
been granted to Miss Fowler for her supervision of this public school
work.

Dr. Runyon after a year's study abroad resumed her work again the
last year.' Mr. Edwin Fauver was added to the list of special teachers,

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and his lecture course on the history of out-door sports proved a valuable
addition to the work.

Dr. Leonard now has charge of the classes in fencing which were
formerly taught by Dr. Karl Zapp of Cleveland.

Respectfully submitted,

DELPHINE HANNA.

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Report of the Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds

To the President:

Sir: Since my last report, the College has purchased the residence
property on the south side of West Lorain street owned by E. P. Johnson.
This, with the adjacent property previously purchased, assures a site for
a College building west of the Chapel.

The Finney house has been dismantled and part of it removed and the
rest will be torn down this winter preparatory to beginning work on the
Chapel in the spring.

Extensive alterations and repairs were made in the Lincoln house, im-
mediately north of Peters Hall, to fit it for the use of the Botanical De-
partment formerly occupying the Finney house. This building provides
two large general laboratories, a private laboratory. Professor's study,
rooms for the Herbarium, chemical room, work room, etc. In some re-
spects this building is better adapted for the work of this department than
the old one.

Provision for stereopticon lectures having been made in Sturges Hall,
the platform and seats in Bradley Auditorium on the third floor of Peters
Hall were removed and the room fitted up for the use of the College
Museum, most of which has been moved from the Library building. This
makes possible a better display of this material than was possible in the
latter building owing to the crowding caused by the growth of the library.
The space thus vacated has been filled with bookshelves which will par-
tially relieve for a short time the crowded condition of the Library build-
ing. The installation there of a very complete system of electric lighting
and the laying of a cork carpet in the reading room have greatly increased
the efficiency of this building. However, as more students are attracted
to it, the reading room is more crowded than ever, and additional space
for this purpose must be used if the students are to continue to do their
best work.

Electric lights, replacing the unsatisfactory oil lamps, have been placed
in the Women's Gymnasium. Alterations made on the second floor have
increased the capacity of the locker room. This buiMing is entirely in-
adequate to the needs of the Women's Department.

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The Powers house still serves as an office building. Several more
excrescences have been added to it this year in an effort to make this
service somewhat more equal to the actual needs. A vault and another
work room have been added to the Secretary's office and the Principal of
the Academy has a much needed waiting room. The replacing of the
worn out furnace with one of those saved from the Chapel will, it is
hoped, furnish relief from the lack of warmth during last winter.

The audience room in Sturges Hall has been redecorated and is now
used as a recitation room.

The central heating plant, furnishing heat to nine of the College build-
ings and the Straus Block, went into operation in November of last year.
A very much better service was given than was possible with the old
individual plants. Such minor defects in the system as were made ap-
parent the first year have been remedied.

Any very extensive treatment of the trees on the College grounds,
though greatly needed, seems impossible at this time; I must call atten-
tion, however, to the necessity for immediate care of certain trees where
overcrowding and disease are causing great damage.

The close proximity to several of the College buildings of old wooden
buildings is greatly to be regretted. The proper setting for the College
buildings cannot be secured as long as these remain and th^ completion of
the Ch^ipel will but emphasize this defect. I would recommend the re-
moval of the house and barn back of Peters Hall and the extension of the
lawns of Peters Hall and Warner Gymnasium in this direction. If possible
arrangements should be made with the owners for the removal of the old
barn and sheds at the south end of Warner G)rmnasium.

Respectfully submitted,

C P. DOOLITTLE.

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[appendix]

Statistics of Instruction

Year of 1903-04

The schedule numbers in the following tables refer to the courses as
described in the catalogue for 1902-03.

In science courses the hours of instruction spent by the teacher in labo-
ratory work are marked with the letter ** L/* the letter ** R** being used to
denote hours in regular recitation.

I. The College

Name of
Teacher

Schedule ' Deeeiiption
Number of Course

L Semestbb

Stodente

Teach- g

ing hrs. ^ a

per go

week a ^

II. SEM£8TEB

Students
Teach- S

iughrs. ^

week si

Leonard

St John

/ King .
\ Bosworth.
Bosworth»..
Bosworth....

Root..

ANATOMY L I

Human Anatomy R i

ASTRONOMY L 2

I- 2 General Astronomy R 2 5 5

BIBLB

9-10 Sen. Bible 2 53 53

5 Freshman Bible 2 91 153

i6 Greek Testament

BIBUOORAPHY

2 Use of Libraries .«.
4 lUus of Books

3 Hist Printed Book..

144 206

2 3 15
3 15

L 2
R 2

2-53 53

224

55 57

7 12
4 20

II 32

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Name of Sohedale Detcription

Teacher N amber of Coarse

I. SBMB8TBB

Stadents

Teach- S

ing hrs. g

per go

week a ^

II. SBMSeTBR

Btadeatfl
Teach- fi

inff hrs. ^

per S

week S

Grover..

BOTANY L 20

2 Elementary Botany R 2

3 Organic Evo R 3

4 General Ecology. <
6 Dendrology ,

7- 8 Class. Flowing Plants.. R

L
9-10 Class. Algae R

( Jewett &
i Taylor...
S Taylor &
i Chapin...
j Jewett &
( Taylor...

Jewett

CHEMISTRY

I Inorganic (2 lab. sec.)...

L 35
R 3

2 Qual. Analysis

L 20
3- 4 Quant. Analysis R o

L 6
Quant Anal, (adv'ced) R o

70 84

21 8

Organic,

7 Assaying R

CHRISTIAN BYIDBNCBS

Wright. G.F. Logic of Ch. Ev

CLASSICAL ARCHyCOLOQY.

Martin i- 2 Hist, of Ancient Art...

Cole II Roman and Pompeian..

** 12 Private Life of Romans

97 97

ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY

Bogart.

1 Political Economy....

2 Money and Banking..

3 Fin. Hist. U. S

4 Econ. Hist. U. S

6 Econ. Theory

13 Sociology

14 Criminology

.15-16 Econ. Seminar

L 16
R 2

8 16

5 II

L 8

R 2

L16

R 2 36 28

L 4

R o o 2

L I

R o 2 o

41 57

L35

R 2 55 26

L 10

R o 10 3

L 10

R 3 II 2

76 31

3 5 5

2 6 19

2 6 36
12 55

3 29 I

2 22 7

3 13 I

2 19 9
250

88 18

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Name of Schedule Description

Teacher Number of Course

II. Sbmbbtbb

Students

Teach- S

ing hrs. g

per 8 ^

week ^ ^

Barrows.
Bates

BNOLISH COMPOSITION

I- 2 Freshman Usee.)..

T- 2 •* (I sec.) ..

3- 4 Sophomore (3 sec.) .

5- 6 Advanced

BNOUSH UTBRATURB

Wager i- 2 Hist. Eng. Lit. (3 sec.)

*• 5- 6 Chaucer

** 7 Theory Poetry

Luce 9-10 Shakespeare

" 13-14 Masterpieces igth C...

Wager 16 Minor Poetry

FRENCH

Wightman... i- 2 Beginning .

Cowdery 1-2 ** (2 sec.) .

3- 4 Gram. & Read. (2 sec.)

Wightman... 5- 6 Composition

... 9-10 Prose XVII & XVIII...

** ...11-12 Drama

• ...15-16 Adv. Comp A

...17-18 Hist Fr. Lit

Cowdery Conversation

Wright, A. A.

Wright, G. P.

OBOLOOY i^

1 General R

2 Advanced

3 Petrography R

4 Palaeontology..
6 Quaternary

OBRMAN

McDaniels... i~ 2 Beginning

Swing I- 2 *•

Gubelmann.. 3- 4 Second year (2 sec.) ...

.. 5- 6 Drama (2 sec.)

** « 7- 8 Composition

84 123

75 116

16 27

15 20

66 78

61 73

16 12

8 13

182 240

159 222

42 87

53 93

5 24

4 16

4 15

19 22

21 35

20 22

18 32

3 10

90 170

98 186

16 I6

10 14

27 34

27 31

15 36

II 27

5 13

3 9

2 4

2 6

3 10

2 II

2 5

I 4

2 4

I 4

8 10

4 6

80 132

61 112

9 8

L I

R 3

5 2

I 0

L 3

R 2

3 0

8 12

10 8

16 14

16 27

II 18

7 10

7 II

29 45

21 32

28 34

18 31

18 18

12 16

165

98 134

69 108

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Name of
Teacher

Schedule
Number

Deociiption
ozCoane

L Sbmbstbb

StadcDte
Teach- g

ing hra. ^ g

per I I

II. Sbmbstbb

Stodente
Teach- 5

inff hrs. ^

week a

ORBEK

Lord.. I- 2 Beginning.

Martin 3- 4 Freshman..

•* 9-10 Oratoiy

•• 17-18 Comedy ....

Johnston.

HISTORY

I Italy

3 Mediaeval

•• 5 Architecture

•• Painting

Hall 9-10 English Outline

** 11-12 American Outline

*• 17-18 Beginning Eng. Inst...

•♦ 19-20 Ciurent Events

Miller 7- 8 History of Greece

ITAUAN

I Beginning.

57 64

Wightman.

LATIN

Lord. I- 2 Freshman (3 sec.).....*

Cole 1-2 •• (isec.)

•• 3- 4 Sophomore

** 9-10 Latin Writing

11-12 Cicero Sec. Philippic.

•«7-'«|ii"

uvenal & Martial
artial, Tacitus

MATHEMATICS

Sherk i- 2 Freshman (3 sec).

Cairns 1-2 ** (3 sec).

. 5- 6 M. Draw.
.11-12 Calculus.

& D. Geom..

Jewett..

Dickinson ,

MINERALOOY

Mineralogy

nusic

I- 2 Hist, of Music,

166

119 179

154

141

L 6

R 0

162

129

L 10
R 3

147
17

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Name of Schedule I>eBoription

ofCo!

Teacher

Nnmber

ofCoane

I. SBMB8TBB

Stndents
Teach- 9

inghrs.
per . _

week ^ ^

" o

II. SSKBSTBB

Stadeots
Teach- g

log hn. g

week a g

Caskey .

MiUer.

ORATORY

I- 3 General Course (2 sec.)

3- 4 Argument'!! & Debate..

6 Dramatic Reading

PBDAQOOY

I- 2 Hist. & Theory Educa.

20 13
8 o

MacLennan.

PHILOSOPHY

1 Introd. Psychology.

2 Ethics

King
Fitch

3- 4 Exper. Psychology...
Introd. Philosophy...

5 *• Logic

9-10 Hist of Philosophy..

Advanced Logic

Metaphysics

7- 8 Microcosmus

12 Esthetics, History...

L
R

28 13
4 4 II

3 49 64

4
073

10 6

7 7
o 2

5 27 9

PHYSICAL TRAINING

100 91

Fauver i- 2 Elemen'y (men) 2 sec. L

Leonard 3- 4 Advanced (men) L

iwlckwire. ^" ^ Elementary (women)... L
ickwire.... 3- 4 Advanced (2 sec.) worn. L

50
26

PHY5iCS L 15

St. John I- 2 Mech. etc. (3 lab. sec.) R 3

L 15

3- 4 Elec.&Mag.(3lab. sec.) R 2

L 10
5- 6 Li't&Heat (2 lab. sec.) R 2

o 57
o 76

76 133

29 3

12 I

6 I

Leonard.

Special Lab. Course...

PHYSIOLOGY

2 Phys. and Hygiene

167

6 12 6
260
2 6^ 9

24 15

4 4 10

3 44 50
L 4

R o 4 2

2 20 26

3 5 5

2
21

loi 99

L 6 47 o

L 3 19 o

L 3 o 37

L 6 o 48

66 85

L15

R 3 24 2

L15

R 2 II o

L 10

R 2 7 I

L 5

R o 2 I

44 4

5 7 21

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Name of Sohednle Deficription

Ttacher Number of Coarse

I. Sbmesteb

Stadents

Teaoh- g

ing hrs. g

per go

week S ^

II. Sbiocstbr

Students
Teaoh- S

ing hrs« ^

week S

3 9
L 14

POLITICAL SCieNCB

Hall I- 2 Gov. in U. S

ZOOLOGY

{&MSd* ^-^ E^«°^- 2^^- (slab's.)... R '3^ 3a ,7

L 9
L. Jones 3 Comp. Anat. (2 lab's.).. R 3 5 3

** 4 Vert. Historgy (2 lab's.)

** 6 Ornithology

Wright. A. A.

L I
Embrj'ology r 2

TBACHBRS' COURSE IN PHYSICAL TRAINING

Leonard

Hanna .

Runyon .

Wickwire.
Fauver....

Theory Phys. Train....
Hist. & Lit.Phys.Train.

Applied Anatomy

Pnys. Exam. & Diagn's

Massage

Medical Gymnastics

j Emerg., Pelvic Anat.

j & Physiology

Art of Teaching R

Outdoor Sports

36 31

3 38

L 14

R 3 29 26

L 12
R 4
L 22

R 4 25 80

L 3
R 3

5 o
67 108

I o 7
306

L 4
R I

2 30

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II. The Theological Seminary

Name of
Inttmotor

Desoription of Coarse

I. SEMB8TBB

Students

Teaoh- g

ing hrs. ^ g

per S ^

week a ^

II. Sbmbsteb

Teach-
ing hrs.

week

Stodente

OLD TB5TAMBNT

Bewer Special Int. to O. T 3

** Hist. Stud. Genesis 2

*• Elements of Hebrew... 5

•• General Int. toO. T....

•• O. T. Theology

NBW TBSTAMBNT

Bosworth..

THBOLOOY

King Systematic 5

CHURCH HISTORY

Swing Gen. Hist, of Church... 3

*• Hist Relig. Freedom... 5

** Historical Dogma 3

*• His. Church in America

'* Seminar in Sources

HARMONY OP SaBNCB AND RBVBLATION

G. F.Wright

Origin Human Race...
Apologetics..

HOMILBTICS

Currier Theol. Encyclopedia... 2

•* Homiletics a and b 3

Sermon Constr i

*• Preaching Ex yi

*• Prac. Theol. a and b ... 3

** Missions 2

Social Problems

Sermon Criticism

169

12
6

..Special Int. H 2 16

.New Testament a. 5 15

. •* ** c 3 12

. •• - b

.Teachings of Paul ....*.

7
8

7
5

o
o
o

o
o
o
o
o
o

4 9
I 3
3 10

o
o
o

II
16

42 O
5 9 o

5
6

4
2

250

130

^ 38 o

220

7
8

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Name of
Instraotor

Description of Coarse

II. Sbiomtbb

Studenta

Teach-

ing hrs.

per

§ §

week

^ ^

BLOCUnON AND ORATORY

Caskey Elocution and Oratory 3

SLAVIC DBPARTMBNT

Miskovsky Bohemian 5

*• English 5

'• Apologetics 5

" Church History 5

'* American History

1 o

2 o
I o
I o

•5
5

o
o

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III. The Academy

Instractor

Subject

Fall Term, 1903

No. of

Teach- Stadentt>

ing Men
honrs Women

Winter T'm, 19U4

No. f

Teach- Students

ioff Men
hours Women

Spring Term,1904

No. of

Teach- Stadents

ing Men
hoars Women

BIBLE

Peck Senior i 45 30

Adams Middle i 25 17

Shaw Junior Middle i 24 20

Reed Junior i 25

Smithe..

.Irregular i 22

I 45 34

I 30 21

I 28 16

I 19 II

I 15 12

I 45 29

I 31 20

I 28 20

I 16 7

I II 4

141 85

BOTANY

Tracy Beginning .

L6
.R3

137 94 131 80

L6 L6

R3 7 8 R3 8 9

DECLAMATION

Tompkins ...Declamation 2 18

" ....Reading

ENGLISH

18 8

Thompson..
Brownback
Pendleton ..
Brownback

.I.-II.-IIl (2 sec.) 10

..IVa,-Va,-VIa (2 sec.)... 6

.IVb,-Vb.-Vlb (2sec.)... 4

..VII,.VI1I,-IX (3 sec.).. 6

** ..X -XI -XII 2

Pendleton .."xilI,-XIV,'-XV.V..*;;;;;;!! 3

...XVI,-XVII. -XVIII 5

...XIX,-XX,-XXI (2 sec.) 4

Thompson... English Grammar 5

14
31
30
29

35
31

FRENCH

218 188

Cowdery 1.-11,-111 (2 sec.) 10 o 27

" IV,-V,.VI 5 4 g

•• .....I,-II

OERMAN

13 36

McDaniels ..I.-II.-III (3 sec.) 15 35 35

Swing.,

.IV,-V.-VI 5

.1.-11.

46 43

4 20 10
I 5 o

25 10

10 22 18

6 32 28

41 14

35 32

16 7

10 15

I 28

46 34

14 5

5
5

217 181

5 19
3 9

6 10

14 38

15 29 27

5 8 2

Sll9 16

46 45

16
5

21 7

10 16 16

6 30 25

37 21

26 30

5 15
12
o

o
21

36 24
14 3

5
5

176 155

5 17

2 7

3 4

10 28

15 27 16

5 7 2

5 10 14

44 32

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Instmctor

Subject

Fall Term, 1908

No. of

Teach- Stadents

ingr Men
hours Women

Winter Tm, 1904

No. of

Teach- Stndentfi

inff Men
hoars Women

Spring Term. 1904

No. of

Teach- Students

ing Men
honrs Women

GREEK

Peck 1.-11,-111 5 7 6 5 7 6

•* 1V,-V,-VI 5 II lo 5 lo lo

i8 i6
HISTORY

Reed 1,-11.-111 4 20 10

** IV,-V,-VI 4 12 13

17 16

4 18 II

4 13 18

LATIN

Hosford I.-II.-III (2 sec.)...

Smithe II.-IIl (i sec)

*• I.-II

Shaw IV.-V,-VI (2 sec.)..

Smithe III.-IV.-V

Shaw VIIa,-VIIIa,-IXa

*• VIIb,-VIIIb.-IXb

Hosford X.-XI,-XI1 (2 sec.)

MATHEMATICS

Moore Alg. I.-II.-III (2 sec.)...

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Treasurer's Report
1904

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Treasurer's Statement

To THE BOAitD OF TRUSTEES OF ObERUN COLLEGE :

The Treasurer of the College submits his Annual Statement ior the
year ending August 31, 1904, as follows:
The funds separately invested are:

C. G. Finney Memorial Fund —

Principal, Net

Aufftist 31, 1904 Income

Mortgages $79,600.00

Cash 1,866.37

$81,466.37 $4,080.12

Springer Fund —

Cleveland real estate 5,165.90 374-10

Foltz Fund —

Bonds 522.50 22.50

Totals $87,154.77 $4476.72

The other funds are invested as a whole. A summary statement of
these investments with the net income thereof, is as follows :

Principal, Net

Aufni8t31, 1004 Income

Notes and mortgages $ 437,659.67

Stocks and bonds 260,40143

Collateral loans 422,150.24

Real estate 236,187.26

Deposits (Savings and Trust Co.'s) 2,000.00

Sundry accounts 137.023.45

Loan to General Fund 10,950.89

Deposits subject to check and cash 40,884.00

Total of general investments $1,547,256.94 $66484.06

Total of special investments 87,154.77

$1,634411.71
The above investments are stated in detail, beginning at page 177 of
this report.

The net income of general investments, $66484.06, has been divided at
the rate of 4.5 per cent among the funds to which they belong. The frac-
tion, $2.68, was credited to University account.

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The excess of income over expense in the accounts of University, Col-
lege, Academy and Theological Seminary, combined as usual, was $4945,
which being subtracted from the accumulated deficits of previous years,
$11,000.34, leaves $10,950.89 as the total unpaid deficit on August 31, 1904.

Gift's have been received during the year as follows:

GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USE

From "A Friend/* $260.00 for the Library.

From the Class of 1904, $100.00 for a Chapel desk.

From Students in College Department, $18.00 for art photographs.

From Tracy McGregor, $75.00 for aid to students.

From Lyman B. Sperry, $25.00 for care of trees.

From the Oberlin Musical Union, $1,500.00 for the organ in Warner
Hall.

From members of the Living Endowment Union, $705.50 for current
expense.

From the Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, $110.74 for aid to
students in the Theological Seminary.

Sundry gifts for Women's Recreation Field, $682.27.

For t:he purchase of a rubber carpet for the Library from —

E. A. West $100.00 J. O. Troup $5.00

Zenas Crane 50.00 Noel Gale 10.00

C. M. Hall 50.00

For Employment Fund for Seminary Students from —

Wilmot V. Metcalf $200.00 Irving W. Metcalf $200.00

O. J. Wilson 50.00 E. H. Olmstead 10.00

G. T. Nichols 5.00 Mrs. E. W. R. Lord 5.00

Mrs. H. W. Woodford 10.00 Miss H. W. Ely 10.00

B. T. Williams 5,14

For the support of the Slavic Department in the Theological Seminary
from —

Miss Sarah N. Kittredge. . .$250.00 Charles B. Everson $ 25.00

E. L. Pickard 100.00 Mrs. J. A. Lane 25.00

Miss A. C. Pryer 25.00 Miss Anne Walworth 150.00

"A New York Friend" 25.00

Congregational Education Society 200.00

First Congregational Church, Jefferson, Ohio 5«oo

Bethlehem Congregational Church & S. S., Cleveland 22.88

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Pilgrim Church, Cleveland 25.00

First Congregational Church, Buffalo 50.00

Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn 25.00

First Congregational Church, Oberlin 10540

Second Congregational Church, Oberlin 26j^

Home Department First Congregational Church S. S., Oberlin.... 2.56

OhioW. H. M. U 244.9s

South Dakota W. H. M. U 38.00

New Jersey W. H. M. U i.oo

New York W. H. M. U 150.00

Free Reformed Church, Silver Lake, Minn 20.00

The total amount of these gifts for immediate use is $3^02.88,

This amount is distributed in the Statement of Income and Expense
among the following accounts:

University $ 613.33

College, special accounts 28.00

Theological Seminary, special accounts 2,122.11

Library 477-00

Miscellaneous 2462.44

$5,702.88

GIFTS TO FORM NEW FUNDS OR INCREASE OLD ONES

From F. M. Hayes, of Buffalo, $20.00 for endowment.

From Sydney D. Strong, of Chicago, $50.00 for endowment.

From L. F. Parker, of Grinnell, Iowa, $1,000.00 for endowment.

From S. F. Cooper, of Campbell, Cal., $3,500.00 for endowment.

From Mrs. Susan A. S. Moulton, of Columbus, $500.00 to found the
May Moulton Loan Fund.

From the estate of Mrs. Abagail L. Olney, of Cleveland, $10,000.00 for
endowment of the Olney Art Collection.

From the estate of Charles H. Keith, of Chicago, $1,903.97; his bequest
to Oberlin College.

From the estate of William E. Osborn, of Pittsburg, $500.00; balance
of his bequest to Obeilin College.

From Alumni, $2,491.50, part payments on subscriptions to the Class
Reunion Funds.

The total amount of these gifts to capital account is $19^965.47 as is
also shown on page 175 of this report.

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Endowments for current expenses now stand on the books as follows:

General or University Endowments $ 6s8»763.76

College Department " 405458-85

Academy

Theological Seminary 120,67476

Conservatory of Music 30419.50

Library 23,101.26

Total $1,238418.13

The accounts hereinafter presented are:

First, a set of tables showing the current income and expenses of
each Department in detail, accounts of general interest being placed
under the heading "University."

Second, a list of all the Funds and Balances in care of the Treasurer,
showing their amounts at the beginning and end of the year.

Third, a classified list of the properties or assets in the hands of the
Treasurer.

Fourth, a list of buildings, grounds, apparatus, etc., in use for College
purposes, and not valued on the Treasurer's books.

JAMES R. SEVERANCE, Treasurer.

Oberun, November 16, 1904.

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Statement of Income and Expense for the Year.

UNIVERSITY

INCOME

From invested funds $25,073.00

From rent of houses and lands not valued 512.87

Interest on subscriptions to endowment 57.6o

Biography of C. G. Finney 90.10

Gifts for current expense 613.33

Total income $26,346.90

EXPENSE

Salaries — Administration $5,000.00

Treasurer's office 3,820.00

Library 2,400.00

Gymnasia 3,250.00

Secretary's office 2,100.00 — $16,570.00

Clerks 1,530.60

Stationery, printing and postage 4,35532

Advertising 1,229.44

Fuel and lights 1,618.08

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 6,660.31

Men's Gymnasium 2,247.05

Women's Gymnasium 780.87

Outside Representation 35441

Library appropriation for books 1,500.00

Summer School Normal Courses 112.00

Sundry expense 433-79

Alumni dinner 438.75

Payments on Lord and Hinchman funds (in excess of

income) 37-98

Total expense $37,868.60

Special Accounts — Receipts

Art School fees ; $ 1,059.75

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium 487.50

Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 90.00

Jones Loan Fund, loans returned 429.89

Scholarship Funds, from investments 1,742.20

Scholarship Loan Fund, loans returned 53.35

$3,862.69
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special Accounts — Payments

Art School $ 1,059.7s

Tfachers* Course, Women's Gymnasium J84.3S

Jones Loan Fund, loans made ' 30.00

To holders of scholarship orders 2,102.88

Scholarship loans 97.50

Total payments $ 3,674.48

COLLEGE

INCOME.

From invested funds $18,245.65

Term bills 44,732.12

Graduate fees 565.00

Total income $63,542.77

EXPENSE

Salaries $40,324.34

Clerks 209.09

Stationery, printing and postage 385.87

Outside representation 63.14

Fuel and lights 1,818.31

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 3,032.76

Diplomas 183.10

Sundry expense 5.12

Museum 400.00

Herbarium 175.00

Apparatus, Physical Laboratory 400.00

Apparatus, Psychology 197.90

Apparatus, Zoology 310.50

Apparatus, Anatomy 85.20

Trustee Scholarships 559- 50

Avery Scholarships 298.00

Oberlin College Scholarships 36.00

Total expense $48,483.83

Special Accounts — Receipts

Chemical Laboratory fees $ 1,800.86

Botanical " " 249.40

Zoological " " 852.26

Amount carried forward $ 2,902.52

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Amount brought forward $ 2,902.52

Physical Laboratory fees $240.25

" " gift 10.00— 250.25

Archaeology fees 252.70

" from Art Exhibit 193-84

" gifts iS.oo— 464.54

Anatomy fees 18.00

Herbarium bal. appropriation 122.50

Museum " " 72.53

Scholarship funds from investments 1,102.50

$ 4,932.84
Special Accounts — Payments

Qiemical Laboratory $ 1,696.61

Botanical " 36.96

Zoological " 712.83

Physical " 326.29

Archaeology 19446

Anatomy 18.00

To holders of scholarship orders 99720

$ 3,982.35

ACADEMY

INCOME

Term bills $13,416.70

EXPENSE

Salaries $13,400.00

Clerks 90.00

Stationery, printing and postage 390.06

Fuel and lights 37947

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 1,184.00

Advertising 177.50

Sundry expense 63.30

Diplomas 234.15

Apparatus Botanical and Zoological Laboratory 95-22

Trustee scholarships 491.00

Total expense $16,504.70

Special Accounts — Receipts

Physical Laboratory $ 79.00

Special Accounts — Payments

Physical Laboratory $ 94.53

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THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

INCOME

From invested funds $ 9,334.29

Term bills and rent of rooms i>8o475

Diplomas 40.00

Total income $11,179.04

EXPENSE

Salaries $ 9,033.00

Clerks 62.17

Stationery, printing and postage 212.87

Advertising 156.05

Fuel and lights 752.96

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 624.31

Reserve for expenses, 1904-1905 524.53

Diplomas 540

Sundry expense 125.01

Outside Representation 82.53

Total expense $11,578.83

Special Accounts — Receipts

Slavic Department —

Loan repaid $ 10.00

Gifts for current expense 1,516.23 — $ 1,526.23

Scholarship Funds —

From investments $ 899.63

Gifts 110.74

Loans repaid 390.79—$ 1401.16

Student Employment Fund, gifts 495-14

$ 3,422.53
Special Accounts — Payments

Slavic Department $ 1,714.05

To holders of scholarship orders 1,053.00

Student Employment Fund 645.14

$ 3412.19
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CONSERVATORY

ZNCOMB

Term bills $ 57,736.86

Interest on Reserve Fund 2,276.95

Recital tickets 1,343.16

Diplomas 40.00

Rent of Williams house (net) 13578

Total income $6i,S32-75

EXPENSE

Salaries $36,243.73

Library yiySo

Stationery, printing and postage 1,012.66

Advertising 57757

Piano and or^an tuning and repair 1,100.30

Fuel and lights 1,326.04

Clerks 64.10

Insurance 136.90

Janitor and engineers 1,696.72

Supplies and repairs 8,629.51

Purchase of instruments 2,824.69

Artist recitals 2,680.00

Sundry expense 59.97

Diplomas 107.50

Total expense $57,17749

Special Accounts — Receipts

Loan Fund, loans returned 244.65

Special Accounts—Payments

Loan Fund, loans made 593-00

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UBRARY

INCOMB

From invested^ funds $ 1,039.56

Dividend G. F. Harvey Company 30.00

Term bills i,33S.iS

Private examinations 291.00

Registrar's fees ^ 136.75

Books and supplies sold 48.71

Gifts for current expense and purchase of books 47''.oo

Transfer from Archaeology 56.00

Transfer from Teachers' Course in Physical Training. 7.50

Proceeds of Baker lecture SX>.75

Interest on subscription to Endowment 12.00

Trustee appropriation 1,500.00

Total income $ 5,024.42

EXPENSE

Librarian's assistant, clerks $ 1,240.62

Case Library fee 10.00

Binding books 526.80

Supplies 360.80

Express 1.55

Zoological Laboratory for Wilson Bulletin 35.00

Purchase of books 2,909.24

Total expense $ 5,084.01

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MISCELLANEOUS

RECEIPTS

Finney Memorial Fund, interest $ 4,080.12

Foltz Tract Fund, interest ) 22.50

Foltz Tract Fund, sale of tracts 4.50 — 27.00

Annuity Funds, income 6,857.68

Summer School, fees 1,665.00

Summer School, special appropriation 112.00— 1,777.00

Sundry receipts 1,336.88

Gifts for immediate use 2462.44

Gifts to form new funds or increase old ones 19,965.47

Total receipts $36,506.59

PAYMENTS

Finney Memorial Fund $ 2,500.00

Foltz Tract Fund 27.00

Annuities 10,086.00

Summer School 1,777.00

Warner Hall Organ 1,500.00

Loss on sale of lands 37.12

Office furniture and supplies (from insurance) 337-00

To holders of orders on Earl fund 1 17-50

To holders of orders on Buckingham fund 10.00

To holders of orders on McCormick fund i59-50

To holders of orders on McGregor fund 75.00

Sundry payments 33903

Total payments $16,965 15

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Summary of the income and expense of the University, College, Academy,
and Theological Seminary

Income

University $ 26,346.90

College 63164277

Academy 13416.70

Seminary (Theol.).. 11,179.04

$114,485.41
114435.96

Expense
$ 37,868.60
48483.83
16,504.70
11,578.83

$114435.96

Surplus

4945

Surplus
$15,058.94

$15,058.9^
15,009.49

$ 4945

Deficit
$11,521.70

3,088.00
399.79

$15,00949

Summary showing the increase of Funds and Balances in the care of the

Treasurer

Receipts Payments

University, special accounts $ 3,862.69 $ 3,67448

College, special accounts 4,932.84 3,982.35

Academy, special accounts 79.00 94.53

Theolojjical Seminary, special accounts 3,422.53 3412.19

Conservatory, income and expense 61,532.75 57,17749

Conservatory, special accounts 244.65 593-00

Library, income and expense 5,024.42 5,084.01

Miscellaneous 36,506.59 16,965.15

$115,605.47 $90,983.30
90,983.20

Total increase of funds and balances, as is •

also shown on page 181 of this report. .$ 24,622.27

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Funds and Balances in the care of the Treasurer.

UNIVERSITY

Auffast 31, 1908. August 31. 1904.

General Fund (so called)

$ 17340686 Endowment $173,477 86

17,51489 'Alumni Fund 17,51489

24475 00 E. I. Baldwin Fund 24,475 00

10,000 00 Henrietta Bissell Fund 10,000 00

31429 41 James H. Fairchild Professorship.. 31,429 41

15*27500 Walworth Fund 15,27500

38,00000 Dickinson Fund 38,00000

4,846 10 Clarissa M. Smith Fund 4,846 to

16,00000 Ralph Plumb Fund 16,00000

2,000 00 Truman P. Handy Fund 2,000 00

8506 Shaw Fund 8506

7914 Latimer Fund 7914

1,50591 Butler Fund 1,50591

15845 Whipple Fund 15845

34025 Perry Fund 34025

40,756 22 Reunion Fund of 1900 (part) 43,172 72

38,000 00 William E. Osbom Fund 38,500 00

5,00000 John Sherman Fund 5,00000

200,000 00 John D. Rockefeller Fund 200,000 00

10,000 00 E. A. and C. B. Shedd Fund 10.000 00

10,000 00 Marcus Lyon Fund 10,000 00

5,000 00 Warner Gymnasium Endowment. . 5,000 00

Olney Fund 10,000 00

Keith Fund 1,903 97— $658,763 76

2,703 17 C. N. Pond Fund 2,703 31

7,12397 Dutton Fund 6,96455

2,94491 Prunty Fund 2,92743

26602 Finney Fund 25999

694 30 Davis Fund 645 54

6034 Ryder Fund 5406

7,93578 Dascomb Fund 778789

443 41 Warner Fund x 433 36

59,53182 C. V. Spear Fund 58,51075

1,04686 Gillett Fund 973 97

6^79 55 Ross Fund 6,341 63

Amounts carried forward $ 87.602 48 $ 658,763 76

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4.459 05

83»296 13

5,091 80

4,995 83

2,98s 00

2,031 67

1,020 00

9,920 00

967 56

800 00

1,000 00

1,100 00

1,000 00

1,045 00

5,000 00

1,000 00

6,000 00

1,534 91

1,000 00

750 00

200 00

179 89

1,250 00

6,500 00

1,000 00

1,020 00

745 50

1,000 00

Amounts brought forward $ 87,602 48 $ 658,763 76

Gilchrist Fund 4,40971

Marx Straus Fund 21,84446

Mary A. Springer Fund 5,165 90

Collins Fund 4,97064

Cooper Fund 6,46933

Williams Fund 2,02309

Hotchkiss Fund 1,00590

Firestone Fund 9,866 40

Edward West Fund 971 "

McClelland Fund 813 50

Parker Fund 1,00000—146,14252

Cowles Memorial Scholarship 1,00000

Dr. A. D. Lord Scholarship 1,100 00

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Lord Scholar-
ship 1,00000

Hinchman Fund 1,04500 — 4,14500

Lydia Ann Warner Scholarship. . 5,000 00

F. V. Hayden Scholarship 1,000 00

Avery Fund 6,00000

Finney Scholarship 1,25000

Howard Valentine Scholarship 1,000 00

Caroline Scholarship 1,00000

Talcott Scholarship 1,00000

Metcalf Scholarship 1,00000

Dodge Scholarship t, 000 00

Dascomb Scholarship 1,00000

Bierce Scholarship 1,00000

Graves Scholarship 1,00000

Louis Nelson Churchill Scholar-
ship 75000

Ann Lincoln Fund 200 00

Jones Loan Fund 579 78

Mary E. Wardle Scholarship 1,250 00

Dr. Dudley Allen Fund 6,500 00

Henry N. Castle Scholarship t,ooo 00

Class of '58 Scholarship 1,025 00

Class of '69 Scholarship 815 50

Class of '98 Scholarship t,ooo 00

Amounts carried forward $ 34,370 28 $ 809,051 28 1

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Amounts brought forward $ 34,370 28 $ 809,051 28

1,000 QO Jean Woodward Irwin Scholar-
ship 1,00000

1,000 00 Howard Gardner Nichols Scholar-
ship 1,00000

1,00000 May Moulton Memorial Fund 1,00000

1,000 00 John Manning Barrows Scholar-
ship 1,00000

May Moulton Loan Fund 500 00

130 00 Trustee Scholarship Fund (part) . . 130 00
370 65 Scholarship Loan Fund (part).... 326 50— 39,326 78
985 24 Unused income, above scholar-
ships 909 47

79,886 25 C. G. Finney Memorial Fund 81466 37

2,778 Z7 Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 2,868 Z7

51208 Lewis Fund 51012— 84,84486

23,183 05 Balance credits, sundry accounts... 23,984 84

COLLEGE

67i959 59 Endowment 67,959 59

19,634 41 Dascomb Professorship 191634 41

50,000 00 Stone Professorship 50,000 00

S5,88i 37 Fredrika B. Hull Professorship.. 55,881 Z7

30,000 00 Graves Professorship 30,000 00

30,000 00 Brooks Professorship 30,000 00

23,748 25 Monroe Professorship 23,748 25

25,oop 00 James F. Clark Professorship 25,00000

20,00000 Perkins Fund 20,00000

25,000 00 Avery Professorship 25,000 00

40,000 00 L. H. Severance Professorship 40,000 00

12,039 23 Adelia A. Field Johnston Pro-
fessorship 12,039 23

6,196 00 Severance Laboratory Fund 6,196 00— 405,458 85

I 14 G. F. Wright Research Fund i 14

1,000 00 Jennie M. Williams Scholarship. . 1,000 00

6,000 00 Ellen M. Whitcomb Scholarship. . 6,000 00

1,000 00 Flora L. Blackstone Scholarship. . 1,000 00

. 500 00 Tracy-Sturges Scholarship 500 00

Amounts carried forward $ 8,500 00 $1,363,577 22

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Amounts brought forward $ 8,500 00 $1,363,577 22

1,50000 E. A. West Fund 1,50000 .

1,000 00 Harvey H. Spelman Scholarship. . 1,000 00

1,00000 Lucy B. Spelman Scholarship 1,00000

1,000 00 Janet Whitcomb Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Mrs. F. E. Tracy Scholarship 1,000 00

5,000 00 Frank Dickinson Bartlett Scholar-
ship 5,000 00

2,000 00 Andover Scholarships 2,000 00

1,000 00 J. C. Wilder Scholarship 1,000 60

2,500 00 The Comfort Starr Scholarship

Fund 2,500 00— 24,500 00

216 80 Unused income, above scholarships 322 10

1335 Balance credits, sundry accounts.. 85854

ACADEMY

37 97 Balance credits, sundry accounts. . 22 44

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

34,281 88 Endowment 34,281 88

21,371 10 Finney Professorship 21,371 10

8,935 84 Morgan Professorship 8,935 84

25,000 00 Holbrook Professorship 25,000 00

21,707 00 Michigan Professorship 21,707 00

4,75000 Place Fund 4,75© 00

3,495 55 BurrcU Fund 3,495 55

13339 Hudson Fund 133 39

1,000 00 Joshua W. Weston Fund 1,000 00 — 120,674 7^

3,96178 West Fund 3,79© 07

5,000 00 Lemuel Brooks Scholarship 5,000 00

1,500 00 Jennie M. Rossiter Scholarship 1,500 00

1,000 00 McCord-Gibson Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 John Morgan Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Painesville Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Oberlin First Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000 00

1,000 00 Oberlin Second Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000 00

1,00000 Anson G. Phelps Scholarship 1,00000

1,000 00 Butler Scholarship 1,000 00

Amounts carried forward $ 13,500 00 $1,513,745 13

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Amounts brought forward $ 13,50000 $I,5I3,745 U

1,000 00 Miami Conference Scholarship 1,000 00

1,250 00 Tracy Scholarship 1,250 00

1,000 00 Sandusky Scholarship. 1,000 00

1,25000 Leroy H. Cowlea Scholarship.... 1,25000

1,000 00 Charles E. Fowler Scholarship. ... 1,000 00

700 00 Emerson Scholarship (part) 700 00

29195 Susan S. Button Fund 29195— 19,99195

616 69 Unused income, above scholarships. 964 85

469 04 Balance credits, sundry accounts... 655 75

CONSERVATORY

30419 50 Fenelon B. Rice Professorship.... 30,419 50

20,73490 Reserve Fund 25,09016

73160 Loan Fund 38325— 55,89291

LIBRARY

21 00 Library Fund 21 00

827 00 Class of '85 Fund 8^ 00

50000 Cochran Fund 50000

50000 Grant Fund 50000

50000 Hall Fund 50000

100 00 Henderson Fund 100 00

11,17663 Holbrook Fund 11,17663

50000 Keep-Clark Fund 50000

1,000 00 Plumb Fund 1,000 00

5,72413 E. K. Alden Fund 5,72413

100 00 Andrews Fund 100 00

2,152 50 Faculty Fund 2,152 50— 23,101 26

1,502 48 Balance credits, sundry accounts. .. . 1,442 89

SPECIAL
522 50 Folts Tract Fund 522 50

$i,59i|694 97 Total funds and balances $1,616,31724

Total increase of funds and bal-
ances $ 24,622 27

Liabilities
18,20433 Deposits and personal accounts... 18,09447

$1,609,899 30 $1,634,4" 71

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The foregoing Funds and Balances are invested in the following properties:

Notes and Mortgages distributed as follows :

Cleveland $35,i52 86

Akron 29,600 00

Oberlin 22437 30

Columbus 11,40000

Lorain 36,500 00

Tallmadge 1,000 00

Wellington 800 00

Geneva 800 00

Collinwood 6,000 00

Farm lands in Ohio 76,365 00

Total in Ohio — $220,055 16

Topeka ^ 11,75967

Eureka 600 00

Hutchinson 5,000 00

Wabaunsee 350 00

Farm lands in Kansas 22,383 00

Total in" Kansas 40,092 67

Matthews 10,580 00

Farm lands in Indiana 2,975 00

Total in Indiana 13,555 «>

Grand Rapids 19,600 00

Farm lands m Michigan 32,880 00

Total in Michigan 52,480 00

Chicago 117,000 00

Duluth 12,600 00

Des Moines 940 00

Davenport 20,000 00

Farm lands in Iowa 1 1,000 00

Total in Iowa 3i,940 00

Farm lands in Nebraska 1,591 00

Timber lands in Mississippi 4,901 20

Total notes and mortgages $494>2I5 03

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Amount brought forward $ 494,215 03

Stocks and Bonds —

$ 9,000 00 Knickerbocker Ice Co. bonds $ 8,186 43

20,000 00 United States Coal Co. bonds 19,200 00

20,000 00 Cleveland & Eastern Ry. bonds 18,000 00

30,000 00 Syracuse Rapid Transit bonds 27,000 00

30,000 00 Wheeling Traction Co. bonds 30,000 00

12,000 00 Elyha Building Co. bonds 12,000 00

20,000 00 Railway Steel Spring Co. stock, pr 16,125 00

30,000 00 Northampton Portland Cement Co.

bonds 30,000 00

25,000 00 Steel Steamship Co. bonds 24,750 00

20,000 00 Western Ohio Ry. Co. bonds 15,825 00

10,000 00 Wellman-Seayer-Morgan Eng. Co.

bonds 10,000 00

1,000 00 Rio Grande & Western Ry. Co. bonds. 1,000 00

500 00 Northern Pacific Ry. Co. bond 365 00

1,000 00 Euclid Heights Realty Co. bond 1,000 00

1,000 00 First Nat. Bank Wellington, stock 1,250 00

25,000 00 Gilchrist Transportation Co. bonds 23,041 00

25,000 00 Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Trans-
portation Co. bonds 23,181 50

Total stocks and bonds 260,923 93

Collateral Loans 422,150 24

Real Estate—

Ashtabula (city property) $ 1,000 00

Oberlin (city property) 132,370 98

Cincinnati (city property) 4,000 00

Cleveland (city property) 7,600 00

Akron (city property) 12,000 00

Toledo (city property) 1,000 00

Elyria (city property) 136 00

Farm lands in Ohio 1,900 00

Total in Ohio 160,006 98

Grand Rapids (city property) 11,849 00

Farm lands in Michigan 6,130 00

Total in Michigan I7,979 00

Amounts carried forward $177,985 98 $1,177,289 20

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Amounts brought forward * $177,985 98 $1,177,289 20

Topcka (city property) 10,500 00

Hutchinson (city property) 1,400 00

Farm lands in Kansas 33,592 70

Total in Kansas 45,492 70

Fargo (city property) 4,100 00

Farm lands in North Dakota 425 00

Total in North Dakota 4,525 00

Chicago (city property) 10,000 00

St. Paul (city property) 1,319 10

Matthews (city property) 410 38

Farm lands in Nebraska 945 00

Farm lands in Florida 200 00

Farm lands in Washington 475 00

Total real estate 241,353 16

Sundries —

Construction acct. Baldwin Cottajje (loan) 11,965 41

(instruction acct. Talcott Hall (lotn) 13,075 46

Advances to Lord Cottage 1,524 86

Advances to Stewart Hall 1,526 00

Advances to Keep Home : 1,573 30

Advances to Museum 1,213 85

Advances to English Theological Course 1,204 89

Advances to Scholarships 314 24

Furnishings Park Hotel 5,352 75

Unexpired insurance 1,190 23

Time deposits (Savings & Trust Companies)... 2,000 00

Bills receivable 23,044 64

Sundry accounts 98,082 46

Loan to (General Fund 10,95089173,01898

Deposits subject to check and cash*. 42,750 37

$1,634,4" 75

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SUMMARYiOF ASSETS

Notes and Mortgages $ 494,215 03

Stocks and Bonds 260,923 93

Collateral Loans 422,150 24

Real Estate 241,353 16

Sundries i73,oi8 98

Cash 42,75037

$1,6344" 71
Buildings and Equipment (see page 186) 745,95© 00

$2,380,361 71

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The following properties in use for College purposes are not entered
in the foregoing list of assets, and are not valued on the Treasurer'^,
Books. The values given are reasonable estimates based on their cost and
present condition:

Spear Library $ 30,000.00

French and Society Halls 14,000.00

Peters Hall 75,000.00

Finney Laboratory 9,000.00

Warner Hall 125,000.00

Council Hall 75,000.00

Sturges Hall 10,000.00

Talcott Hall and furniture 65,000.00

Baldwin Cottage and furniture '. 40,000.00

Lord Cottage and furniture 24,000.00

Stewart Hall 4,000.00

Keep Home 3,000.00

Other houses and College grounds 8,000.00

Library 50,000.00

Women's Gymnasium 8,000.00

Physical and Chemical Apparatus 15,000.00

Museum 25,000.00

Botanical Collection 7,500.00

Musical Library 3,000.00

Musical Instruments and Apparatus 36,000.00

Arboretum 2,000.00

Athletic Grounds 2,950.00

Severance Chemical Laboratory 69,500.00

Warner Gymnasium 45,000.00

$745,950.00

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Report of the Auditing Gjmmittee for the
Year ending August 31,1 904

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College:

Your Committee have personally examined all bonds, notes,
mortgages, certificates of stock, deeds, and other evidences of
property which were on hand at the beginning of the present
year, or were received during the year, and also all securities held
as collateral for loans.

We find that all are now in the hands of the Treasurer or are
fully accounted for, and that all payments of principal endorsed
OB any of the securities, and all payments for real estate sold,
have been properly credited on the books of the College.

Your Committee also employed the services of Mr. A. J.
Horn, of Qeveland, an expert public accountant and auditor, who
submitted to us the following report :

"The Cash Balance as shown by the Treasurer's cash account on
Ledger was verified by actual count of money in office and reconciled
bank balances.

"All disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash Book were checked
with vouchers and other voucher evidence.

"All receipts and disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash Book
were carefully refooted and extensions examined.

"All entries appearing on Cash Book were found correctly posted as
evidenced by the casting of balances in Trial Balance, which was con-
firmed by re-checking with Ledger.

"All detailed sheets of investments were compared with face of
Ledger."

Your Committee desire again to commend the methods em-
ployed in the Treasurer's office, and the thoroughness and ac-
curacy with which the accounts are kept.

(Signed) Irving W. Metcalf,
E. J. Goodrich,

Auditing Committee.
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Actions taken at the Meeting of the Trus-
tees, November 1 6, 1 904

There were present : President King, Messrs. Burton, Coch-
ran, Cowles, Ford, Gates, Goodrich, H. H. Johnson, Metcdf,
Mills, Shedd, Smith, Starr, Strong, Tenney, and Troup.

The election of trustees resulted as follows :

Hon. Theodore E. Burton, Cleveland, Ohio, re-elected by the alumni,
full term.

Mr. P. D. Cravath, New York, N. Y.; Dr. C. J. Ryder, Stamford,
G>nn. ; and Mr. C. B. Shedd, Chicago, 111., re-elected for the full term.

Mr. Charles W. Williams was appointed as Assistant to the
President, for the period of two years, the especial work to be that
of increasing the material equipment of the College.

The Trustee members of the various Advisory Committees,
whose terms expire January i, 1905, were re-elected.

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BULLETIN
OF OBERUN COLLEGE

NEW SERIES No. 19

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE 19044)5

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OBERLIN COLLEGE

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE FOR 1904-05

PRESENTED TO THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING^ NOVEMBER 22, I905

OBERLIN, OHIO
PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE

December i, 1905.

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OBBRUN. OHIO

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CONTENTS

The Board of Trustees . . * .

The CoDege Administration, 1905^

6.11

Advisory Committees ....

12-13

President's Report ....

15-110

I. Trustees .....

Dection of Members . . . .

The Work of the Trustees

Important Official Actions

Prudential Committee Actions

II. Donors

Half Million Fund

Mr. Carnegie's Gifts

Gifts Reported by the Treasurer

Wills and Subscriptions . . . .

Other Gifts . . . . .

III. Administrative Officers

Changes .....

Reports . . . . ,

The Work of the President

IV. Faculty

Deaths

Resignations .....

Leave of Absence ....

Promotions .....

Reappointments .....

New Appointments ....

Organization .....

Important Official Actions ....

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Reports ...

Language, Literature, and Art

Mathematics and the Sciences

History and Exonomics

Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Theology

The Slavic Department * .

Instruction Units • .

Methods

V. Alumni ......

VI. Advisory G>mmittees ....

VII. Students

VIII. Relations to Other Education and Educational

Institutions

101

IX. Outside Influence .....

103

X. Material Equipment .....

106

XI. Needs

108

Reports of Officers :

Secretary ......

111.145

Librarian ......

146-153

Dean of the Theological Seminary

154-155

G>llege Department :

Dean of G>llege and Graduate Men

156-159

Dean of College and Graduate Women

160-165

Registrar ......

166-170

Director of the Conservatory of Music

171-174

Principal of the Academy ....

175-176

Chairman of the Summer School

177-178

Director of the Men's Gymnasium

179-162

Director of the Women's Gymnasium

163-166

Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

167-168

Statistics of Instruction and Attendance

189-205

Treasurer's Report ......

207-234

Report of the Auditing Committee ....

235

Actions Taken at the Meeting of the Trustees. Nov. 22, 1905

236

Index

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Rev. henry CHURCHILL KING, D.D., President

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1907

Frederick N. Finney, St, Louis, Mo,

Edward J. Goodrich, Oberlin, O,

Louis H. Severance, Ne<w York City,

LuciEN C. Warner/ LL.D., . Ne<w York City,

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1908

William C. Cochran, Cincinnati, O,

Rev. Frankun S. Fitch, D.D., . Buffalo, N, Y,

Irving W. Metcalf, Oberlin, O.

Merritt Starr,* Chicago, III,

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1909

Amzi L. Barber, ... Ne*w York City,

Charles F. Cox, Nrw York City,

William N. Gates, Elyria, O,

Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., .... Boston, Mass,

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1910

Dudley P. Allen,* ... . . Cleveland, O,

John G. W. Cowles, LL.D., .... Cleveland, O,

Rev. Charles S. Mills, D.D., ... , St. Louis, Mo,

Rev. Henry M. Tenney, D.D., . Oberlin, O,

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1911

Hon Theodore E. Burton,* LL.D Cleveland, O,

Rev. Charles J. Ryder, D.D., ... Nevo York City,

Charles B. Shedd, Chicago, III,

Charles M. Hall, ... . . Niagara Falls, N, Y,

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1912

H. Clark Ford, Cleveland, O,

Homer H. Johnson, Cleveland, O,

Rev. Sidney D. Strong,* D.D., ... . Oak Park, III,

James O. Troup, ... BovjUng Green, 0,

*Electcd by the Alumni.

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THE CX>LLEGE ADMINISTRATION- 19054)6.

The Trustees: OrncERS and Committees
President, Henry Churchill Kinc
Assistant to the President, Charles W. Wiluams
Treasurer, James R. Severance
Secretary, George M. Jones
Appointments: — ^Tcnney, Allen, H. H. Johnson, Mills.
Auditing: — ^Troup, Tenney.
Honorary Degrees: — King, Smith, Fitch.
Investment: — ^King, Ford, Gates, H. H. Johnson, J. R. Severance, L. H.

Severance.
Nomination of Trustees: — ^Wamer, Mills, Metcalf.

Prudential: — ^King, Doolittle, E. P.Johnson, Mrs. Johnston, G. M. Jones,
Morrison, Root, J. R. Severance, Swing.

JOINT committees OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY

Administration Building: — King, L. H. Severance, Doolittle, G. M.

Jones, Peck, J. R. Severance, Miss Wolcott
Art Building :'-KiDg, D. P. Allen, W. N. Gates, C. S. Mills, L. H. Sev-

erence, Mrs. Johnston, Martin, St John.

Biological Science Building: — King, D. P. Allen, C. J. Ryder, Grover,
L. Jones, Leonard.

Chapel:— King, H. H. Johnson, C. S. Mills, Doolittle, J. R. Severance,
Morrison, Swing.

Library:— King, I. W. Metcalf, Bosworth, Root, St. John.

New Half Million Fund:— King, H. C. Ford, L. H. Severance, Bos-
worth, Root

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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 7

Thb Council!— Officers and CoMMirrBBS

GENERAL COUNaL

Chairman, King

Vice-Chairman ^ Root

Clerk, Martin

Appointment of Instructors and Adjustment of Worh: — ^King^ Bo«wortb,

Martin, Morrison, St. John.
Budget:— Koot, Jewett, King, Peck, St. John.

COLLEGE COUNaL

Chairman, King
Vice-Chairman, Root
Clerk, Martin
Appointments: — ^King, Jcwctt, Martin, St. John, Wager.
Budget: — St John, Anderegg, Root

conservatory council
Chairman, Morrison
Secretary, Lehmann
Appointments: — Morrison, Andrews, Carter, Sweet.
Budget: — ^Morrison, Heacox.

The Faculty:— Officers and Committees

general faculty

Chairman, King

Vice-Chairman, Root

Clerk, Martin

Art Exhibition: — ^Martin, Cole, Mrs. Johnston, Lord, St Joh&

Athletics: — ^Leonard, Miller, St John. [See also Regulatiea el AtUetic

Sports.]
Care of Buildings: — See Committee of Prudential Committee.
Catalogue: — G. M. Jones, Bosworth, Peck, Root, Miss Wattles.
Chapel Seating: — Miller, Mrs. Fargo, Miss Fitch, Luckej, Peck, Miss.
Wolcott, Mrs. Woodford.

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Commencement and Other Public Occasions: —
/. General Arrangements — King, Bosworth, Carter, Cowdcry, Miss

Fitch, Grover, G. M. Jones, Leonard, Morrison, Peck, Root, Wager.
2. Entertainment of Guests — Morrison, Burr, Mrs. Johnston.
^. Processions and 5M/in^— Wager, Cole, Heacox, Lord.
/. Alumni Dinner— Cofs^dtry, Carter, Breckenridge, Caskey, Jameson,

Cuckey.'

5. Decoration—Grovtr, Kimball, Miss Oakes, Taylor, Miss Thompson.

6, Distribution of Tickets — Leonard.

Conference on Professional or Technical Study: — St John, Fullerton, Leon-
ard, Wolfe.

Discipline: — Miller, Caskey, King, Morrison, Peck, St. John.

General Art Interests: — ^Martin, Mrs. Johnston, Dickinson, Kimball, Miss
Oakes.

Graduate Study and Degrees in Course: — ^Anderegg, Cole, Fullerton,
MacLennan, Wolfe.

Gymnasium: — Men, Leonard, Miller, St. John. Women, Miss Hanna,
Miss Abbott, Miss Hosford, Miss Wattles, Miss Wickwire.

Honorary Degrees: — ^King, Bosworth, Root, Wager, Wright

Intercollegiate Debate: — Caskey, Root, Wager, Wolfe.

Lectures and Entertainments: — Martin, Bosworth, King, MacLennan,
Morrison, Wightman.

Library: — St John, Bosworth, Dickinson, Grover, Martin, Root, Shaw,
Wager, Wightman.

Musical Organizations: — G. M. Jones, Morrison, Peck.

Nominations: — ^King, Bosworth, Jewett, St John.

Outside Representation and Newspaper Correspondence: — G. M. Jones,
Cole, Currier, Lord, Wager.

Petitions and Requests from Students: — ^Jewett, Miss Fitch, L. Jones, Mil-
ler, Morrison.

Printing and Clerk Hire: — G. M. Jones, Caskey, Miller, Peck, Wager.

Regulation of Athletic Sports: — Faculty, St John, Leonard, Miller; Alum*
nig W. C. Clancy, '97; A. G. Comings, '77; G. C. Jameson, '90;
StudntiSg W. R. Barrows, '06; R. H. Long, '06; H. W. Spiers, '07.

Religious Work: — Bosworth, Andrews, Cole, Cowdery, Heacox, Mist
Hosford, Shaw, Sweet, Taylor, Wright

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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 9

Requests for Work vnth Private Teachers: — Peck, Miss Fitch, Miller,
Mrs. Woodford.

Secondary 5cAoo//.— Miller, G. M. Jones, MacLennan, Peck, St. John.

Situations for Graduates: — Miller, Bohn, Miss Fitch, G. M. Jones, Wa-
ger.

Social Occasions: — Grover, Miss Abbott, Miss Brownback, Cowdery,
Mrs. Fargo, Miss Fitch, Jameson, Kimball, Shaw, Miss Wickwire,
Wightman.

Student Publications and Exercises: — ^Jewett, Caskey, Wager.

Summer School: — MacLennan, Anderegg, Cole, Martin, Miller.

Supervision of Appeals to Alumni: — King, Bosworth, Dr. G. C. Jameson,
G. M. Jones, Lord, Morrison, Root, St John, Williams.

COLLEGE FACULTY

Chairman, Kino
Vice-Chairman, Root
Clerk, Martin
Dean of College and Graduate Men, Miller
Dean of College and Graduate Women, Miss Fitch
Assigning Officer, Casket
Advisory Officer, Wager
Registrar, Miss Wolcott
Additional Work and Substitutions: — Cole, Miss Abbott, Anderegg, Cow*
dery. Miss Fitch, Miss Hanna, Lord, Martin, Miller, Wager, Miss
Wolcott.
Admission: — G. M. Jones, Miss Abbott, Anderegg, Cole, Grover, L.
Jones, Martin, Miller, St John, Wager, Wightman, Miss Wolcott
Class Prayer-Meeting Leaders: — Seniors, King; Juniors, Mrs. Johnston;

Sophomores, Root; Freshmen, Miss Fitch.
Course of Study: — Martin, Miller, Wager.
Failure in Scholarship: — Miller, Cole, Cowdery, Miss Fitch, Martin,

Miss Wolcott
Free Tuition and Beneficiary Aid: — Men, G. M. Jones, Jewett, Martin,
Miller, Wightman. Women, Miss Hosford, Miss Abbott, Mrs. Farg^
Miss Fitch, Miss Hanna.
Nominations: — King, Anderegg, Jewett, Wager.
Schedules: — Caskey, Lord.
Student Conferences: — King, Miller, Wager.

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THEOLOGICAL FACULTT

Chairman and Dean, Bosworth

Secretary and Registrar, Fullbrton

Advertising, Nevjspaper Correspondence, and Printing: — ^Bosworth, Ful-

lerton, Miskovsky.
Catalogue: — Bosworth, FuIIerton.

Commencement: — Bosworth, Caskey, Currier, Miskovsky.
Council Hall: — FuIIerton, Bosworth, Miskovsky.
Curriculum: — ^Bosworth, FuIIerton, Swing.
Endowment: — Bosworth, King, Currier, Swing.
Finance and Budget: — Bosworth, King, Swing.
Outside Representation and Lectures: — ^Bosworth, FuIIerton, Wright
Pulpit Supplies: — Currier, FuIIerton, Bosworth.
Scholarships and Loans: — Currier, King, Swing.
Slavic Department: — Miskovsky, Bosworth, Currier, ^wing.
Student Employment Fund: — Bosworth, Currier, Wright

CONSERVATORY FACULTY

J Chairman, MORRISON

Secretary Lehmann
Dean of Conservatory Women, Mrs. Woodford
Artists' Recitals: — Morrison, Adams, Breckenridge.
Graduation: — Morrison, Dickinson, Heacox, Mrs. Woodford, and other
teachers of candidate in question.

ACADEMY FACULTY

Chairman, Peck

Secretary, Miss Hosford

Dean of Academy Women, Mrs. Fargo

Appointments and Budget: — Peck, Miss Brownback, Miss Hosford, Shaw,

Miss Smithe, Miss Thompson.

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Prudential Committbe:— Officbks and Commiitbes

Chairman, Kino
Secretary, G. M. Jones
Advertising:^~G, M. Jooes, Severance.
Arboretum: — Grover, Mrs. Johnston.
Boarding Halls: — ^Root, Johnson.
Budget: — Root, Morrison.

Buildings and Grounds:^C. P. Doolittle, King.
Janitors: — Chemical, Botany Laboratory, French, Peters, Society, Spear,

Sturges, Doolittle; Men's Gymnasium, Leonard; Warner, Morrison;

Womet^s Gymnasium, Miss Hanna; Council, Bosworth.
Rented Buildings: — Doolittle, Morrison, Severance.
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds: — C. P. Doolittle.
Use of Peters Hn//;— St John.
Use of Sturges Hall: — Mrs. Johnston.
Use of Warner Gymnasium: — ^Leonard.
Use of Other Buildings :^C. P. Doolittle.

The Women's Board of Managers

Dean of College and Graduate Women: — Miss Florence M. Fitch.
Dean of Conservatory Women: — Mrs. Harmonia W. Woodford.
Dean of Academy Women: — Mrs. Edith C. Fargo.
Term Expires 1905: — Mrs. Kate W. Morrison, Mrs. Alice M. Swing.
Term Expires 1906: — Miss Frances J. Hosford, Miss Delphine Hanna.
Term Expires 1907: — Miss Arietta M. Abbott, Mrs. Marion J. P. Hatch.

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ADVISORY COMMITTEES

SEMINARY
Franklin S. Fitch,* D.D., '70, 4s Lexington Ave, Buffalo, N. Y., Chair-
man.
Edward T. Harper,* *8i, 730 West Adams St, Chicago, 111.
Casper W. Hiatt,* D.D., t. '85, 820 Logan Ave., Cleveland, O.

ACADEMY
Merritt Starr,* '75, 916 Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111., Chairman.
Oicar S. Kriebel,' '89, Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg, Pa.
Rovillus R. Rogers,' '76, 627 East 6th St., Jamestown, N. Y.

CONSERVATORY
Lucien C. Warner,* *6s, 634 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Chairman.
Mrs. Helen Tupper-Kinder,* (Mrs. W. H.), c '85, 824 Washington Ave.,

Findlay, O.
George B. Siddall,* '91, 101s Garfield Building, Cleveland, O.

DRAWING AND PAINTING
Irving W. Metcalf,* '78, Oberlin, O., Chairman.
Arthur S. Kimball,* Oberlin, O.
Alfred V. Churchill,* h. '98, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

LIBRARY
Charles S. Mills,* D.D., h. '01, 5139 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.,

Chairman.
Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild,* (Mrs. E. M.), Library School, Albany,

N. Y.
Charles P. Treat,* '7O1 80 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

ANCIENT LANGUAGES
Judson Smith,* D.D., t. '63, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., Chairman.
James B. Smiley,* '89, 671 Jennings Ave., Cleveland, O.
A. B. Bragdon,* Monroe, Mich.

MODERN LANGUAGES
Sydney D. Strong,* D.D., *8i, 234 North Elmwood Ave., Oak Park, 111.,

Chairman.
William I. Thomas,* University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.
Henry T. West,* '91, Kenyon College, Gambier, O.

* Term expires Jantuury 1. 1908. * Term expiree Januarj 1. 1909.

' Term expires Januanr 1. 1907.

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PHILOSOPHY
Henry M. Tcnncy/ D.D., Oberlin, O., Chairman.
Pitt G. Knowlton,* '90, Fargo College, Fargo, N. D.
Raymond H. Stetson,* '93, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.

HISTORY
James O. Troup,* '70, Bowling Green, O., Chairman.
John R. Commons,* '88, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
George B. Heazelton,* '79, Hayward Building, San Francisco, Cal.

BfATHEBiATICS
Homer H. Johnson,* '85, 1009 American Trust Building, Cleveland, O.,

Chairman.
Walter N. Crafts,* '92, Oberlin, O.
Albert M. Johnson,' 2735 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.

BIOLOGICAL SaENCE
Dudley P. Allen,* '7s, 260 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O., Chairman.
Charles J. Chamberlain,* '88, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.
Charles A. Kofoid,* '90, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

OTHER PHYSICAL SCIENCES
H. Clark Ford,* 917-921 Williamson Building, Cleveland, O., Chairman.
Charles M. Hall,* '85, 136 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Roben A. Millikan,* '91, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.

ATHLETICS, GYMNASIUM. AND PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR MEN
William C. Cochran,* '69, 313 Johnston Bldg., Cincinnati, O., Chairman.
Thomas D. Wood,* *88, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
James B. Dill,* 27-29 Pine St., New York, N. Y.

ATHLETICS, GYMNASIUM. AND PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR WOMEN
Charles F. Cox,* '69, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y., Chairman.
Miss Harriet L. Keeler,* '70, 93 Olive St., Cleveland, O.
Mrs. Agnes Warner Mastick,* (Mrs. S. C), '92, 35 Mount Morris Park,

W., New York, N. Y.

ECONOBflCS. POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND SOCIOLOGY
Hon. Theodore E. Burton,* '72, 709 Society for Savings Building, Cleve-
land, O., Chairman.
Thomas N. Carver,* Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
E. Dana Durand,* '93, 1303 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C.

^ Tenn expires January 1. 1908. * Term expires Janiiary 1, 1909.

* Term expires January 1. 1907.

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The Annual Report for 1 904-05

Presented by the President to the Trustees at the Annual
Meeting, November 22, 1905

To THE Board of Trustees of Oberlin College:

Gentlemen: As President of the College, I have the honor
to submit the following report for the academic year 1904-05.

I. TRUSTEES

Election of Members

At the last annual meeting of the Board, Hon. Theodore E.
Burton, Mr. Paul D. Cravath, Dr. Charles J. Ryder, and Mr.
Charles B. Shedd were elected to succeed themselves, for the term
ending January i, 191 1, Hon. Theodore E. Burton being elected
by the alumni as their representative for this term. Mr. Paul
D. Cravath felt compelled, on account of the present pressure of
his own business, to decline his reelection, and the Trustees
reluctantly accepted Mr. Cravath *s resignation, with the earnest
hope that he might later be able to return to membership in the
Board. At the semi-annual meeting of the Trustees in June, Mr.
Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, New York, of the Class of
1885, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr. Cravath, for the term ending January i, 191 1. There arc
now no vacancies in the Board.

The terms of office, however, of Mr. H. Clark Ford, Mr.
Homer H. Johnson, Dr. Sydney D. Strong, and Mr. James O.
Troup expire January i, 1906. The sucessor to Dr. Strong
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the vote of the alumni, and will be reported for the first time,
according to custom, at the meeting of the Board. The successors
of Mr. Ford, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Troup should be elected by
the Trustees at this meeting.

The Work of the Trustees

So full a statement of the organization, methods, and general
work of the Trustees was given in the report for last year, that
it will not be necessary the present year to cover that ground in
detail. It is expected that at the present meeting, the final changes
in the revised report of the Committee on Codification may be
made, and the By-Laws of the College, including those of the
Trustees, be fully adopted. Only two or three minor points re-
main yet to be settled. The By-Laws will then be printed in
final form, and accessible for consultation by all needing them. The
alumni will be glad to know that these By-Laws cover quite full>
the entire organization of the College, including the work of the
Trustees and their Committees, of the administrative officers of
the College, of the Coundls, of the Faculties, and of the Advisor>-
Committees, and give, beside, the conditions upon which degrees
arc granted. The By-Laws, so far as concerns the Trustees, re-
cord for the most part simply present practice, so that this report
does not call for change in the presentation of the work of the
Trustees made last year.

It cannot fail to be of great value to the College to have the
By-Laws governing all parts of its work thus carefully codified
and accessible. Unity, thoroughness, definiteness, and economy of
administration on the part of the various officers, Councils, Facul-
ties, and Committees must be furthered by the adoption of these
comprehensive By-Laws, as they have been worked out in final
form through the thought and care of the original Trustee Com-
mittee, the Council Committee, and other officers. Already, be-
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to answer very important inquiries from the outside, in a way much
more satisfactory than would have been possible earlier. It was
especially important, for example, that it should be possible to
put such a copy of the Charter and By-Laws of the College in the
hands of the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation.

The President wishes to recognize again the very important
and self-sacrificing services rendered by the Trustees in connection
with the Investment Committee, the Committee on Appointments,
various Building Committees, and the Advisory Committees, and
the valuable cooperation given both to the President and to
his Assistant in frequent consultations concerning plans for the
further advancement of the College. The College cannot forget
that its most valuable and influential connection with its natural
constituency, actual and prospective, must be through oificial rep-
resentatives in the Board of Trustees. And it counts their inter*
est and influence among its most valuable assets.

Important Official Actions

It will be appropriate to bring into this historical survey of
the college year, especially for the benefit of the alumni and
friends of the College, a brief summary of the more important of-
ficial actions of the Trustees during the year covered by this re-
port. Aside from the election of members of the Board, already
given, and the appointments, a full list of which will be found
in a later section of the report, under the heading. Faculty, these
actions may be summarized as follows:

At the Annual Meeting, November 16, 1904

Perhaps the most important single action of the Trustees at
this meeting was the creation of the office of Assistant to the
President, and the election of Mr. Charles W. Williams to that
office. The President believes that this appointment is not only
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difficult part of the presidential problem may be wisely solved in
many other institutions as well. The increasing of the financial
resources of the College must be regarded, no doubt, as a presi-
dential function. But no man who means to be the real educa-
tional head of an institution can give the great bulk of his time
to that work; and the President has been clear from the begin-
ning that he had no right so to interpret his office. He could do
justice neither to himself nor to the College, if he did not aim
to be its educational head. The scope of the President's work, in
any case, is quite as broad as health or growth can allow; and
wherever wise supplementing of the presidential office can be
brought in, the College must be the ultimate gainer. And the
President has welcomed with peculiar pleasure the close compan-
ionship and enthusiastic help of his Assistant.

It was voted to confirm the action of the Faculty in extend-
ing the Teachers' Course in Physical Training to include men as
well as women. The establishment of this new course grew most
naturally out of the work already done by the College in this di-
rection, and- will undoubtedly prove a further attraction for men,

A committee of three, consisting of Drs. Mills, Tenney, and
Strong, was appointed to cooperate with Dean Bosworth in meet-
ing the needs of the Theological Seminary.

Messrs. Strong, Starr, and Cochran were appointed a Com-
mittee to investigate the question of making the College more at-
tractive for men, and presented a very careful and suggestive re-
port, in a printed pamphlet, to the Trustees at the semi-annual
meeting in June. The chief positive recommendations of that re-
port are perhaps contairted in the following paragraph:

"If, now, the magnificent Warner Hall, devoted mainly to the train-
ing of women in this fine and useful art [of music], were balanced by a
school of technology, giving courses in engineering, electricity, industrial
chemistry, applied physics and mechanics, hydraulic and sanitary construc-
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would greatly increase their percentage of the total. If to that were added
the courses in constitutional history and commercial law, and in the
shop work which the Faculty have so often urged, the proportion would
be increased; and if the men were provided with a Club House or Y. M.
C. A. building of modem, up-to-date fashion, and dormitories were pro-
vided to a number equal to that provided for women, the equilibrium
would be brought within sight."

It surely is not necessary for the President, in view of re-
peated utterances already made, to express his complete agreement
with the desirability of the carrying out of at least most of these
recommendations. He has held steadily the conviction that these
changes were necessary, and has made more than one attempt
to bring them to pass, and he has not given up their accomplish-
ment.

The revision of the important report of the Committee on
Codification was also considered and adopted with minor modifi-
cations, with the exception of a single section, which was further
discussed at the June meeting, and still awaits final settlement at
the present meeting in November of this year.

At the Semi-Annual Meeting, June 26, 1905

Besides passing upon an unusually long list of appointment8»
and receiving reports — mostly of progress — from various other
standing committees, and approving various Faculty recommen-
dations as to degrees and diplomas, the Trustees, at the semi-an-
nual meeting in June, took action also upon the following import-
ant points:

Messrs. Starr, Shedd, and Troup were appointed a special
committee to consider the possibility of making a beginning in
shop work facilities, and upon their recommendation, the Trus-
tees authorized the President and the Prudential Committee "to
provide suitable equipment for beginning shop work, and to em-
ploy one teacher for shop work and one teacher of political sci-
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of an associate professor^ as soon as the funds for that purpose can
be secured."

It was voted that Dr. Warner, Dr. Tenney, and Mr. Root,
of the Prudential Committee, be appointed a special committee "to
investigate the financial relation of the Conservatory to the entiie
Institution, to report at its next annual meeting." And further
action with reference to Article 4, Section 5 (the section dealing
with this point), of the revised By-Laws, was deferred until that
time.

Messrs. H. H. Johnson, Shedd, and Cox were also appointed
a special committee "to investigate what changes of method, if anj »
should be made in the manner and methods of investment of col-
lege funds, to report at the next meeting."

The budget for the college year following, is always adopted
at the semi-annual meeting in June, and there should find a place
in this report, therefore, at this point, an outline of the budget for
the college year 1905-06:

Income

University $24,290.00

College 66,395.00

Theological Seminar}' 11,580.00

Academy i4,8oaoo

$117,065.00
Experues

University .$3M73-<X)

College 51,486.00

Theological Seminary 12,123.00

Academy 16,750.00

$116,832.00
Surplus $ 233.00

The Conservatory of Music —

Income $61,650.00

Expenses 58,800.00

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The budget, as adopted by the Trustees, goes into full detail, and
by vote of the Trustees, June 23, 1902, the budget as adopted is
to be "considered as appropriations, and the amount for various
expenses shall not be exceeded without the special authorization of
the Pnidential Committee."

Upon recommendation of the Faculty and Trustee Commit-
tees on Honorary Degrees, and of the General Faculty, four hon-
orary degrees were voted: The degree of Master of Arts, to
Mrs. Lucy Miner Bosworth, of the Class of 1883; the degree of
Doctor of Divinity, to Rev. William James Dawson, of London,
England : the degree of Doctor of Science, to Rev. John Thomas
Gulick, Ph.D., of Oberlin ; and the degree of Doctor of Laws to
Professor Thomas Nixon Carver, Ph.D., of Harvard University.

. Prudential Committee Actions

As the Prudential Committee is empowered by the Trustees
to act for them in interim, it is appropriate that a brief summarj*
of the more important actions of that Committee, not elsewhere
covered in this report, should find record here — these actions be-
coming Trustee actions upon their approval by the Trustees.

On December i, 1904, the Committee authorized the Libra-
rian to complete the card catalogue of the Olney Collection, which
is now in the Gallery in Cleveland, and to make a duplicate com-
plete catalogue to be kept in Oberlin. This action seemed im-
portant for the highest usefulness of the Collection.

On January 12, 1905, the removal of the Finney House was
authorized, to clear the ground for the new Chapel building.

The various actions of the Prudential Committee growing
out of the Baldwin Cottage fire, are covered by the report of the
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.

February i, it was voted to approve the recommendation of
the Committee on the Library that the firm of Patton and Miller
be asked to provide plans for the new Carnegie Library.

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On April 6, the Committee voted to approve the recommen-
dation from the General Council, making the needful adjustments
in the teaching force, on account of the death of Professor Al-
bert Allen Wright; and on April 27, the Secretary was author-
ized to issue a memorial pamphlet for Professor Wright, to be
mailed to all the alumni of the College.

On May 19, complete arrangements were made for the ex-
penditure of the gift of $1,000 from the Boston donor, for the im-
provement of the Campus.

June I, the Committee approved a recommendation from the
Women's Board, as follows:

"That in view of the great demand for rooms, we recommend that
three years be the limit of residence in Baldwin and Talcott until we have
more dormitories; residence in Lord, Talcott, or Baldwin to count in the
other halls; students who have had part of their time in the halls to be
on the preferred list for re-admission; those now in the halls to be permit-
ted to complete four years; and the general plan to be stated in the Cata-
logue; this recommendation to include all residents of the halls except the
Deans and the Director of the Women's Gymnasium."

The reason for the recommendation is contained in the minute.
But it seemed best, later, to the Women's Board to defer the car-
rying out of the recommendation for a year.

On June i , the Committee on Chapel were authorized to ad-
vertise for bids ; but on August 24, in view of the fact that all the
bids received for the construction of the new Finney Memorial
Chapel ran beyond the amount available for the building, it was
voted that the builders be notified that all bids are rejected ; and
steps were taken to see what could be done in the way of altera-
tion of the chapel plans. On September 19, after consultation
on various points with the architect, with Mr. Finney, and
with the Trustee members of the Chapel Committee, for the guid-
ance of the architect, the following votes were passed: i, That
wc think it very important that the chapel be constructed of 'stone;
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we do not wish to reduce the seating capacity below that provided
for in the plans, as first submitted. And the architect was asked
to see if he could not meet these conditions and still bring the
building within the amount of money available.

On October 5, a definite agreement was entered into with
the first Church, the Committee voting to approve the payment
of the sum of $900 per year for the use of the First Church, to
date from the time when the College began to use the Church for
the college chapel exercises. The Church Committee later voted
to grant the use of the Church for the first five months to the Col-
lege without charge, the payments by the College to begin in Sep-
tember, 1903. This arrangement seemed to be the most fair and
equitable one that could be made on both sides.

On October 12, the Committee approved of the appointment
of a broadly representative Committee for the Supervision of all
Appeals which are made to the alumni of the College, the details
of the plap to be referred to the President and his Assistant, with
power. This action is important, as rightly guarding the inter-
ests both of the alumni and of the College.

II. DONORS

In the aggregate, a very encouraging number of gifts have
come in during the year, either in cash or in subscriptions. And
mention should first be made, certainly, of the very generous ex-
tension of time for the completion of the Half Million Fund on
the part of the Boston donor of the first $100,000. This donor has
shown throughout such consideration of the alumni, and such
genuine regard for the best interests of the College, that his
offer to the College has been doubly prized. I venture to quote
from the letter in which the last extension of time was given:

''I have yours of the 22d. I had supposed, when I wrote you Feb-
ruary x8, that it was possible you would need some longer time than July
X, to complete fund. I think you will be quite right in not exerting un-

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due pressure at any point, in efforts to secure additions to the fund, and,
especially, not to do so with the alumni, in whose loyalty and interest I
would feel secure, that, always, up to their reasonable ability they could
be trusted to do their part. I have thought of this from the beginning,
more particularly as a capitalist's opportunity, rather than that of the
many. Set the time for consummation at your convenience, up to July i,
1906."

It may perhaps be also said, without betraying confidence,
that the $1,000 given for the improvement of the Campus came
also from our generous Boston donor. And it seems to have been a
very general judgment that it would have been difficult to have
put the same amount of money anywhere, where it could have
counted more in the beautifying of the college property.

Mr, Carnegie's Gifts

The largest single gift of the year is the offer of Mr. Car-
negie to give $125,000 for a new library building, on condition
that $100,000 additional endowment be raised for the Library.
As the President himself suggested this condition, he has no right
to find fault with it. The condition was suggested because it
was firmly believed that the College simply could not afford to
accept such an enlarged library building without a decided in-
crease in the endowment of the Librar>% both for the support of
the building and for greatly needed additions to the resources of
the Librar>^ itself. This gift of Mr. Carnegie's, with the endow-
ment which it is hoped the present year will see completed, will
strengthen the College at its verj'^ center in a most notable way,
and as perhaps no other single gift could do; for the Library
touches every department of teaching in the entire Institution,
and ample library resources mean more than can easily be stated,
both to Faculty and to students. Mr. Carnegie's offer, first
made orally to the President, was expressed formally in the follow-
ing letter to the President from Mr. Carnegie's Secretary:

"With reference to your letter of April x6, 1903, and subsequent cor-

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respondence, Mr. Carnegie desires me to say that he will be glad to pay
for the erection of a library building for Oberlin College to the extent of
$125,000, this to be conditioned upon your raising $100,000 new endow-
ment for the College."

The way for this handsome gift of Mr. Carnegie's — the
largest single gift for a college library that up to that time he had
made — was prepared by his shortly preceding gift of $15,000 for
the help of students of the College, and other especially needy
cases, who had lost money through the failure of the Citizens Na-
tional Bank of Oberlin. This gift from Mr. Carnegie came di-
rectly through the efforts of Rev. William E. Cadmus, of Elyria,
Ohio, w^ho has acted throughout with Secretary Jones, Treasurer
Severance, and the President, in meeting in full all student lossej*,
and with a committee of citizens, consisting of Judge Steele, Mr.
L. T. Whitney, and Dr. John W. Bradshaw, in meeting the se-
verer cases of loss among other bank depositors. The other mem-
bers of the Committee would be foremost in recognizing the pre-
eminent service done by Judge Steele in this connection, who de-
voted very many hours to the investigation of cases outside the
student body, and whose personal recommendations were accepted
by the other members of the Committee, certainly in the great ma-
jority of cases. The Committee have nearly completed their task
and will soon make full account of their stewardship, through Mr.
Cadmus, to Mr. Carnegie. Forty-nine men, and sixty-four wom-
en, a total of one hundred and thirteen students, connected with
Oberlin College, were helped by this Fund. This gift of Mr. Car-
negie's obtained by Mr. Cadmus's prompt and effective appeal to
him, made it possible for the President to announce almost im-
mediately to the students that all student losses would be paid in
full, and to relieve at once the minds both of the students and of
the friends of the College from what must have proved to a
number hardly less than a crushing calamity. The College owes
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mus in this matter. Both College and community, also, might well
be doubly grateful to Mr. Carnegie for his action in this case, be-
cause it did not a little to change the current of comment in the
press of the country concerning the bank failure here.

Gifts Reported by the Treasurer

The Treasurer's Report, under the head of gifts, contains a
detailed account of all gifts made to the College for the financial
year ending August 31, 1905, including a considerable list of
gifts for immediate use, amounting, it will be noticed, altogether,
to $6,873.26, besides gifts to form new funds or increase old ones,
amounting, altogether, to $22,356.77. Excluding $2,000 bearing
an annuity, and $2,665.67, that are payments on subscriptions to
the 1900 Reunion Fund, there is left of these gifts for permanent
funds, that could be counted toward the new Half Million Fund,
under the conditions of the Boston donor's gift, $17,690.10.

IF ills and Subscriptions

In addition to these cash gifts, notice has been received of the
wijl of Mr. E. A. Goodnow, of Worcester, Massachusetts, which
provides for a gift of $5,000 to Oberlin College for endowment
purposes, and of the will of Mrs. Ella Gilchrist Potter, that pro-
vides for the sum of $15,000 for the establishment of greatly need-
ed scholarship and loan funds, and a further possible $7,000,
under certain conditions which make it not immediately available.
The definite provisions of this will, as concerns the $15,000, may
be here appropriately given:

"To Oberlin College, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000)
with the condition, that it be called the Gilchrist-Potter Scholarship Fund,
the interest therefrom to be paid annually in free tuition to indigent and
self-supporting young women as students in said College, in departmenti
of Art and Philosophj'."

"Also to the Trustees of Oberlin College and their successors, in
trust and perpetuity the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($zo,ooo), which

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monies may be loaned to indigent, self-supporting young people of either
sex, who may be students in said College, in such sums as their actual
needs may demand, such loans to be made by the Trustees on recommen-
dation of the President of said College and for time not exceeding five
years. For the use of monies so loaned the borrower will pay the lowest
legal rate of interest as established by the laws of the State of Ohio.
This sum is given as a foundation for a Memorial to my beloved Fa-
ther and Mother and called the Gilchrist Banking Fund for students of
Oberlin College."

Other subscriptions have been received, through the Presi-
dent, from a New York friend, of $5, OCX) toward an Art Build-
ing, and of $3,804 for special endowment, and a further subscrip-
tion from a New York friend, not, I think, mentioned in the pre-
vious repoft, of $i,oco toward the beginning of the shop work de-
sired. The Dean of the Seminary also notes a gift from Mr. Al-
fred Gillett, of Oberlin, of $5,oco, subject to an annuity. And
there arc, as well, much-needed additions to our all too meager
scholarship funds.

All these gifts are here most gratefully acknowledged.
Among these gifts, it will be noticed, are sums amounting to $10,-
000 toward a new Art Building, which it is hoped may not only
provide the much-needed housing for the Olney Art Collection,
(which the College has been obliged still to leave in its former
Cleveland home, with the very- kind consent of Mr. and Mrs.
Judd) but also furnish room for other art objects, steadily growing
in number and significance. The gifts of Mr. E. A. West and of
Mr. T. E. Burton, a later gift of $500 by Mrs. Coburn and
a subscription of like amount by Mr. W. N. Gates make the be-
ginnings of the $100,000 needed for the Library endowment to
meet Mr. Carnegie's condition. It is gratifying to find the Theo-
logical Seminary remembered by a bequest of Mr. William C.
Chapin, as well as by Mr. Gillett*s gift.

Other Gifts
The Librarian's report contains a detailed account of the

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large number of gifts made to the Library during the year. It
will be seen that many more additions have been made by gift and
exchange than by purchase. The President joins with the Libra-
rian in expressing his gratitude to these numerous donors for their
contributions to the Librar)^ It will be noticed that the largest
gift of the year to the Library, though coming too late to be in-
cluded in the accessions for the year, was from Professor Wright's
library, which was the more valuable because it was long gather-
ing and had been most carefully selected with the special view of
supplementing the college library. The Librarian estimates that
this gift means at least six or seven hundred added bound volumes
and many more pamphlets.

There should be noted here, also, the very valuable gift of
Professor Wright's private collection, which Mrs. Wright has
turned over to the College. The specimens are so scattered
through the Museum that it will take a great amount of time to
bring them under one accession and correctly estimate the full
value of this large gift. They are largely. Professor Jones says,
in the form of a supplement to the college collection, for the pur-
pose of filling up gaps in the series, and the gift is of especial value
on that very account. Mention should also be made of the gift
of Professor Wright's private library of zoological books to the
library of that department.

Professor G rover also reports important additions to the
Herbarium, Friends of the College certainly must all join in his
warm tribute to Dr. Kelsey's interest and work for the botanical
department :

"The additions to the Herbarium have been, by gifts, a small book
of Japanese plants from Rev. John GuHck ; two valuable type specimens of
Quercus Ellipsoidolis Hill, from Professor £. J. Hill, of Chicago; about
seventy Japanese plants from Rev. George D. Wilder, of the class of
1891 ; and from Mrs. F. D. Kelsey, of Toledo, a valuable collection of
plants belonging to the late Rev. F. D. Kelsey, ScD. This gift comprises
one thousand microscope slides of animal and plant preparations, a set

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of valuable KellerrnaD Exsiccata of Ohio Fungi (200 sheets) and one
thousand or more sheets of flowering plants, ferns, mosses, fungp, and al-
gae, constituting the last of the large collection of plants Dr. Kelsey made
during his life-time. The greater part of his collection he had already
given to the College upon his resignation from the Chair of Botany.

**This previous gift of Dr. Kelsej^'s, together with the large additions
to the Herbarium made by him during his service here, has made the Her-
barium one of the most important in the Middle West Dr. Kelsey's in-
terest in the department never flagged to the very last, and his services
to it and to the College in general, were most important, and indeed im-
possible to measure. In gifts alone, he added to the Herbarium probably
twenty thousand or more specimens of plants, comprising three or four
thousand species from very widely separated regions. The duplicate ma-
terial is being used in exchange to add still further to the collection.
The importance of his work and gifts in enlarging the Herbarium is un-
derstood and appreciated more and more by every member of the depart-
ment staff."

In addition to the gifts coming from Professor Wright's li-
brary and collection, Professor Jones reports the following further
gifts to the Museum:

"From Mrs. A. F. Miller, Pacific Grove, California, two lots of
Crustaceans and shells; from Major A. K. Mills, Hot Springs, South Da-
kota, one lot of rocks and fossils; from Edwin S. Williams, Saratoga,
California, one sea lion's head; from E. H. Richards, South Africa, ante-
lope's skull and horns; from M. H. Levagood, Elyria, Ohio, small rocks
from Grand Canyon; from C. C. Brackin, Greenback, Oregon, *Slicken-
sidcs;* from Dr. V. Sterki, New Philadelphia, Ohio, one lot of Unios; from
Mrs. J. E. FoIIansbee, Oberlin, one mounted Canada lynx."

"Also from Mr. Robert L. Baird, grasshoppers, earthworms, and fresh-
water clams enough for class use; several hundred starfishes for labora-
tory use, and Molgula enough for years to come: (These specimens, if
purchased at regular retail rates, would cost upwards of two hundred dol-
lars:) several hundred insects to complete some of our series; about
twenty snakes; two lots of Unios from Vermillion River; several hundred
crayfishes for the Museum. As an Assistant in Zoology and in the Mu-
seum, Mr. Baird has collected extensively such specimens, not enumerated
above, as were needed for use in the laboratory and for demonstration.
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our work by collecting such material in the immediate vicinity. By doing
80, fully half of the expense for laboratory material has been saved. Op-
portunities to collect at the seashore have made it possible to reduce the ex-
pense for material to almost nothing during some years. My own gifts
to the department, for the past year, have been limited to a share in
securing the valuable lot of Molgula, and a few marine worms and Mol-
luscs, and a half dozen bird skins."

The parting gift of the Class of igos to the College was pre-
sented on the morning of their graduation day, June 28, at nine
o'clock, and received by the President on behalf of the Trustees
and Faculty. The gift consisted of a very handsome set of bulle-
tin boards for the use of both Faculty and students, finished in
dark oak, and enabling the notices to be placed under glass behind
locked doors. Scarcely anything could have done more to improve
the appearance of the court of Peters Hall. The President wishes
here gratefully to acknowledge this gift of the Class of 1905.

Another interesting gift was recived during the Commence-
ment from the Class of 1885. The account contained in the
Alumni Magazine puts very succinctly the purpose of this gift.

'The class of 1885, in order to encourage the returning of former stu-
dents at Commencement, at its own twentieth anniversary, presented to the
College at Alumni Dinner, a trophy cup, to be held by the class which at
its twentieth reunion sends back the largest percentage of living graduates.
The cup will be engraved with the numerals of the class having the largest
attendance, and will belong to it until a succeeding one establishes a bet-
ter record. The cup bears the following inscription: 'Presented to Ob«r-
lin College by the class of '85 for the class sending back at its twentieth
anniversary the largest percentage of living graduates.' "

Under the conditions of the gift, the cup is held the present year
by the class who gives the cup, for their twentieth reunion was
an unusually large and enthusiastic one. It would seem as if this
trophy cup could hardly fail to help in arousing more interest in
the class reunions from year to year. And certainly such a
reunion as that held by the Class of 1885 at the last Commence-
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aroused in all the members of the class in the work which the 0)1-
lege is trying to do.

This is also the place to note the gift to the College of an ex-
cellent copy of a handsome medal struck in memory of John Fred-
eric Oberlin. The medal comes to the G)llege from a great-
great-grandson of John Frederic Oberlin, Pastor Paul Werner,
who still preaches at Wildersbach, near Rothau, in Steinthal,
where Oberlin lived and worked and died. It has been especially
interesting, through some exchange of gifts, to bind together in
this way the early work of John Frederic Oberlin and the present
work of the G)llcge named for him in America,

The President wshes also to add his own grateful acknowl-
edgements to those of the Dean of the Theological Seminary, for
the very fine portrait of President Finney, placed in the Dean's
oflScc by Mrs. Helen Finney Cox.

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Chancres

The changes that have occurred during the year in the admin-
istrative forces have been as follows: The creation of the office
of Assistant to the President, and the appointment of Mr. Charles
W. Williams to this office, to which reference has already been
made; the separation of advisory functions from the Registrar's
office, and the appointment of Professor Charles H. A. Wager as
Advisory Officer, and the promotion of Miss Flora I. Wolcott
from Assistant Registrar to Registrar; the resignation of Miss
Flora Bridges as Secretary to the President, and the election of
Mr. William Frederick Bohn to the vacancy so caused.

By the vote of the General Council, as approved by the Trus*
tees at their meeting in June, Miss Flora I. Wolcott was promot-
ed from the position of Assistant Registrar, which she has held
so efficiently since 1891, to the position of Registrar. On account

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of the decided increase in the number of students, especially in
the College Department, the recording side of the work of this
office was becoming increasingly large and important, and it
seemed to the Council that it would be wiser to separate this re-
cording side a little more explicitly from the advisory side, and to
make Miss Wolcott head of the recording part of the work that
had belonged to this office. At the same time, the position of Ad-
visory Officer was created, and Professor Wager, who had been
acting as Registrar, was asked to take this position. He will asso-
ciate others with him in this important work. The Council have
created this position and so distinctly recognized this side of the
former work of the Registrar, because they were firmly convinced
that if the elective system were to produce its best results, it need-
ed some such oversight as this appointment implies.

The only other change in the administrative officers was that
occasioned by the resignation of Miss Flora Bridges as Secretary
to the President, to accept a position as Instructor in Mount Hol-
yoke College, and the election of Mr. William Frederick Bohn to
the vacancy thus created. The President recognizes most grate-
fully the very thoughtful and valuable service which Miss Bridges
was able to render, during her year.'s incumbency, on account
both of her own personality and of her large experience as teacher
and administrator. Mr. Bohn, who takes up the work of the Sec-
retary to the President for the present year, is a graduate of Ober-
lin College of the Class of 1 900, and of Oberlin Theological Sem-
inar)% of the Class of 1905. With the appointment of Mr. Bohn
by the Trustees at their meeting in June, the office of Secretary
to the President was for the' first time made a full position, with
salary of its own ; and it has been possible, consequently, to extend
somewhat the scope of the office for the coming year. In Mr.
Bohn's appointment to this office, as in the appointments that have
preceded, it has been recognized that it was important to secure
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to certain sides of his class work (and so to relieve still further here
Dr. Fitch) as well as in the routine duties of the office. Mr.
Bohn*s success as a speaker, and his ability to establish pleasant
personal relations with others, makes it seem probable that the
G)llege will be able to use him also, in part at least, in the carr>'-
ing out of some of the work of an academy canvasser, that has
been so much desired by the Academy Faculty. It is also proposed
that the President's Secretary shall relieve the Secretary of the
College of the work that the College has been trying to do in as-
sisting its graduates in securing good positions as teachers. And
It is believed that this work can wisely be still further extended.
Mr. Bohn's knowledge of the work of the Seminary also makes it
possible to give some real help to Professor Bosworth on the rou-
tine side of the Dean's office, and so more perfectly to insure that
Professor Bosworth will not feel it necessary to give up the work
of his deanship on account of the pressure of his teaching.

Through the adoption by the Trustees of the report of the
Committee on Codification, the duties of the adminstrativc officers
have been, for the first time, formally defined. And this defini-
tion of the functions of the administrative officers may be regarded
perhaps, as the most valuable part of the by-laws adopted.

The year just closed has been the first year in which the over-
sight of the women of the Institution has been distinctly commit-
ted to three Deans, with independent authority withirf their de-
partments. The President finds his original judgment of the ad-
visability of this change only confirmed by the experience of the
year. And he has only gratitude to record for the way in which
the several Deans have taken up their individual tasks and have
cooperated in all that was common to them.

One very natural step in the development of the adminis-
tration of the College still remains to be taken. It would seem
desirable that before ver>' long a distinct head of the College of
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giving to this Department, as to each of the others, its own head.
There could hardly fail to be some real gain in such an appoint-
ment, that would enable a single individual to make the special
interests of the College of Arts and Science his particular study.
The work of the departn?ent would be likely to be still more
unified, and a kind of attention given to it which it is hardly
possible for the President to give, in addition to his more general
work. If such an appointment were made, it should probably
be recognized by at least a slight difference in salary.

Reports

The work of the Assistant to the President is of such a per-
sonal nature as to almost require that it should be personally and
directly presented by the Assistant himself to the Trustees. It
will be proper, however, to include here brief extracts from this
report, that will give a little insight into the aims and plans and
results of Mr. Williams's work:

"The real value of the first year of the Assistantship is to be found not
so much in the tangible, dollars and cents results, as in the very important,
though not at all showy, work of organizing, systematizing, and construc-
tive planning for the bringing of valuable returns in later time." "The
most definite of all results were reached in connection with the Living
Endowment Union, by working in connection with the Alumni Endowment
Committee. After a' Spring canvass, partly by personal call and partly
by letter, the pledges to be paid before July i, 1905, were made approxi-
mately $2,000, as compared with $1,000 realized in 1904, with total of
pledges for 1906 of $2,500; the membership having been increased from
123 in 1904 to 433 in 1906." "Another of the most noteworthy of the
year's activities has been the getting into touch with former financial
friends of the Institution, whether former students or non-students. The
mere discovery of these friends has meant, in the way of studying lists
of donors and of consulting with members of the Faculty, the taking of
a large aniount of time, during the year, although naturally scarcely
a day tff work upon the field passes without hearing, through alumni,
of other old students and friends who should be looked up. Undoubtedly
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formed in connection with those whose persona] interest in Oberlin has, in
one way and another, already been aroused." "At the same time, it has been
thought wise not to limit the making of appeals to such as these, but con-
stantly to seek to enlarge the circle of acquaintance, so that from a larger
field, the most favorable possibilities may be developed. In this connec-
tion, I hope the Trustees will not be sorry to know that system has been
very fully adopted.**

In general, the work of the Assistant to the President may be
said, perhaps, to imply constant study of the whole field of Ober-
Hn's outside relations, with the endeavor at every point to
strengthen and improve them. And it will involve a thorough
organization of the office side of the work, in order to make cer-
tain that no gains are later to be lost. The work, as it is now tak-
en up, is not planned with reference to a single year or two of
desultory money seeking, but rather with the aim of building up
the resources of the College in a large way, and in accordance with
plans that take a very long look ahead. Every possible pains is
taken to make certain that while some friends are won, others are
not alienated. It is certainly not the thought of the President
that the appointment of Mr. Williams should be taken as allowing
him to throw off all financial responsibility, but only to insure
that some one person shall have the primary responsibility of study-
ing the entire question of increasing the material resources of the
College, and shall, through his preliminary work, enable the Pres-
ident to make such time as he does give to the financial side, count
to the utmost. It is the President's judgment that his own work
in this line will be rather stimulated than otherwise by the contin-
uous work of his Assistant. It would no doubt have been entirely
possible for Mr. Williams to have presented, at the end of this
partial year's work, larger immediate returns; but it was the judg-
ment of the President as well as of his Assistant, that the immedi-
ate returns so gained would have been at the expense of considera-
bly larger results a little later. There has been much preliminary
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pared for quite a considerable gain in the year upon which we have
now entered. The Assistant agrees with the President in believ-
ing that we must expect to finish at least the endowment for the
Library during the present year.

The Treasurer s report shows an increase of about $35,000
over the preceding report in the entire amount of funds cared for,
and an increase of about $25,000 in endowment. The summary
of assets of the College, including a conservative estimate of build-
ings and equipment, is now, it will be noticed, well toward two
and one-half million dollars. The general expenses charged under
the head "University," have increased still further over last year,
in spite of reduction of expenses in a number of items. The
special increase for the year at this point is largely due to the is-
suing of the Quinquennial Catalogue, the care of the Olney Art
Collection, and the taking on of agency expenses. Considerable
profit has come in from the sale of lands, that has made it possible
to divide the net income of general investment at the rate of 4.8%.
This has made it possible to come through the year without a de-
ficit, in spite of increased expenses at several points, and also to
pay oflF, it will be noted, certain advances. The previous accumii-
lated deficit of $10,950.89 remains, unfortunately, unchanged.
On the whole, the showing is most encouraging, because there were
good reasons for fearing that a deficit was almost inevitable.

The Secretary's report shows how broad the work of that of-
fice still is. It really covers not only the work of corresponding
and recording secretary, but quite naturally, also, that of chairman
of the Committee on Admission to the College. In addition, the
Secretary has entire charge of most of the publications of the Col-
lege, and has been carrj-Ing, also, during his entire term of office,
the work of Graduate Manager of Athletics. The office has cer-
tainly abundantly justified itself since its establishment by the
Trustees in 1899, and has fulfilled all that was then promised for
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year in the entire Institution since 1891-92, shows that the year
1898-99 — the very year of the Secretary's appointment — had the
smallest enrolment in the entire period covered, and that the en-
rolment has steadily advanced every year since that time. It can
hardly be doubted that while the Secretary's office has not been the
only factor in this growth, it has been a very considerable and real,
if not the main, factor. The report contains the regular statistical
presentation of the facts connected with the development of the
College, to some of which reference will be made later. As chair-
man of the Committee on Admission to College, the Secretary
notes that the cases of all Conservatory students, who wish to be
considered candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Music, pass
regularly through the hands of this committee; so that the same
committee are passing upon the literary attainments of the students
in both College and Conservatory, as ought to be the case. Atten-
tion should also be called to the way in which the Secretary is
maintaining a close connection with the high schools* from which
our students come, through detailed reports to them of the work
done by their students in their first semester with us. The interest-
ing study of the reasons for the non-return of students to Oberlin,
begun in last year's report, is wisely continued in this. This study,
as it is carried on from year to year, ought to give the College real
light in the discovery and meeting of any weaknesses in our situa-
tion. Other points of this valuable report of the Secretary will be
more naturally taken up in connection with other headings.

Attention has already been called to the large number of gifts
made to the college library during the past year. The Librarian
shows that "while the number of bound volumes added during
the past year is smaller than in any one of the four preceding
years, the number of unbound volumes added is greater, so that
the total for the year exceeded that for any year in the period" of
the past five years. It will be noticed that, including the library
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the libraries accessible to our students now contain over eighty
thousand bound volumes. The special attention of the Trustees
and friends of the College is called to that section of the Librari-
an's report in which he indicates how much is really needed, if the
Library is to be brought thoroughly up to date. When we consider
how much has been accomplished for the Library during the last
year in Mr. Carnegie's splendid offer of $i25,ocx) for the build-
ing, we certainly ought not to doubt that the $100,000 for the Li-
brary can be raised, and within the present year. That would be
a very great gain for the Library, and yet, as the Librarian clearly
points out, a good deal more money is needed for immediate ex-
penditure, if the $100,000 endowment is to furnish sufficient in-
come for current book purchases. We cannot afford to leave out
of sight the central importance of the Library in all the inner
work of the College. It will be noticed that the Librarian also
shows a constantly increasing use of the Library, so that the Col-
lege has been forced to expand the accommodations at every possi-
ble point; and the new library building will not come a moment
too soon. Among the numerous gains made by the Library during
the last year, none, doubtless, is so great as that of the appoint-
ment of a thoroughly trained reference librarian. The President
wonders, sometimes, whether any of us quite appreciate the excep-
tionally efficient work that is being done in connection with Ober-
lin College Library.

The report of the Dean of the Theological Seminary is con-
cerning a year of Seminary work that has been unusually success-
ful in all directions. The attendance for the year just closed
showed a gain of thirty per cent, over that of the year preceding.
And it should be remembered that the enrolment in the Semi-
nary is made up almost wholly of college graduates, since the
Seminary graduates now only such. This gain of last year is held
this year, in spite of the fact that an unusual number of men, for
various good reasons, w^ere obliged to intermit their work in the

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Seminary for a year or two. Most of these men seem likely later
to return. The Seminary will probably graduate, at the coming
Commencement, a class of nineteen^ a larger class than for many
years. It should also be noted that, in the judgment of the Dean
and of the Faculty, the Seminary can do its very best work with
a number not too large. The Seminary, therefore, does not aim
at great numbers. An attendance of sixty, as the Dean suggests,
would be, probably, about as large as the best results would per-
mit. The interior of the seminary building has been much im-
proved in the course of the year — the rooms on all the lower floor
having been redecorated, and the halls freshly calcimined through-
out the building.

The report of the Dean of College Men shows that the num-
ber of men under his care has reached almost three hundred, and
was the largest ever enrolled in the College Department for a
single year. This report also brings out, as does the Secretary's
report, the tendency, on the part particularly of men classed as
specials, to leave for technical work, and emphisizes, as have other
reports of the Committee of the Trustees, of the President, of the
Secretary, and of Dr. St. John, the need of doing everything pos-
sible to increase the attractiveness of the College for men. It will
be noticed that the men of all the college classes, of their own mo-
tion, last year put themselves on record as against anything that
could be interpreted as hazing in Oberlin College. The Presi-
dent believes that this is the genuine sentiment of practically the
entire student body, and that we have good reason to hope to main-
tain with increasing success our general tradition upon this point.
In the same connection, it should be noted that a proposal on the
part of a few advanced students to introduce certain customs
which inevitably involved either plain indignities to the freshman
class, or more or less discrimination against them, was met with
so vigorous an opposition on the part of the administrative officers
that the movement died a natural death in one day. The President

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has regarded it as undoubted that the College could afford to make
almost any. sacrifice, rather than to submit for a moment to any-
thing that should be essentially opposed to Oberlin's great demo-
cratic tradition. And he will not stand for any customs of any
kind whose tendency is either inevitably toward any form of haz-
ing, or toward plain violation of the lav^. The administrative offi-
cers of Oberlin College mean squarely to take the ground that stu-
dents, certainly, are not to be held as less amenable to law and or-
der than other citizens, and that in the case of violations of the
law, they must be dealt with just as other violators. The daily
papers should certainly have made it sufficiently clear to any
thoughtful reader that we shall never get an even tolerable situation
in our colleges, until this position is generally taken by college fac-
ulties and officers. Those who have the great privilege of being
selected out for the special advantages of a long course of train-
ing, should be the last of all to engage in conduct that would be
condemned unhesitatingly in the case of less favored citizens.
It should be remembered that the most important part of the work
of the Deans, both of men and women, lies in the cultivation of
close and influential personal relations with the students, and that
this part of the work can hardly be reported upon at all. And it
is just here that the President believes that the greatest gains hav^
been made both among the men and the women ; so that it has
been possible to deal promptly, kindly, and effectively with incipi-
ent tendencies, that under a less personal method would have come
to open manifestation, detrimental both to the student and to the
collecije. The proof of a successful deanship is not to be found in
the number of students openly disciplined, but rather in the num-
ber of cases in which the necessity for discipline has been avoided.
The Dean of Collcf^e and Graduate If^omcn, as chairman of
the Committee of Deans of Women, makes the report, the pres-
ent year, for all the women of the Institution. In this report of
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need of providing suitable homes for our young women. Dr. Fitch
calls attention to the fact that within two years the enrolment of
women has increased nearly 12%, that in the meantime, "the ac-
commodations provided by the College have not been enlarged, and
only two houses of any considerable size have been added to our
list of approved houses; and this not because of any unwillingness
on our part, or failure to find desirable women for matrons, but
because no suitable houses could be rented." Another way of
putting the matter would be to say that the College now has en-
rolled two hundred and seventy-six more women than were en-
rolled at the time that we completed the last dormitory erected
for women, Lord Cottage. I cannot add to the strength of Dr.
Fitch's own presentation of the case, and satisfy myself with simp-
ly calling the careful attention of the Trustees to this report of Dr.
Fitch and her recommendations in view of the situation which con-
fronts the College. There are some further facts of serious sig-
nificance that Dr. Fitch will wish to present personally to the
Trustees in supplement of her printed report. I am thoroughly
persuaded that the time has fully come when the College must
either erect more dormitories itself, or cut down the number of
women admitted. We cannot justly say that we are properly pro-
viding for all the young women even now in residence. The in-
crease in the number of women, of course, has been rather phe-
nomenal, but I think that with another year the only thing that we
can justly do is to go carefully over the accommodations offered,
determine just how many women can properly be provided for, and
give notice in the Catalogue that we cannot receive women beyond
that number. This, it may be said in passing, is the policy that
practically all the eastern colleges for women have been forced
to adopt. I need not urge as a further reason why the College
should erect more halls of residence of its own, that the problem
of suitable care and supervision of the young women is far more
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less and the proportion of them accommodated in college build-
ings much greater. We simply cannot hope to give to our young
women the kind of care that the Oberlin constituency demands,
witho\it increasing the number of dormitories, or considerably di-
minishing the number of women we undertake to care for. Some
rather radical step, in the judgment of the President, must be tak-
en the present year. And all this is said, not because any serious
disciplinary situation has arisen— on the contrary, the Deans have
together dealt with their problems with a rare degree of success —
but rather, because the growth of the last few years has been very
unusual, and because, if we are to continue true to our ideal for
women's education, we must not be contented to place our young
women in surroundings which we cannot ourselves believe to be
thoroughly helpful in the direction of an all-around education.

Dr. Fitch's report has been gone over in careful consultation
with the Dean of Conservatory Women and the Dean of Academy
Women, and they heartily unite in Dr. Fitch's recommeAdations,
and have felt no need to add, the present year, special reports of
their own. Any particular facts that seem to need to be presented
in connection with their departments, will appear in the reports
of the Director of the Conservatory of Music and the Principal of
the Academy.

As already noted, the College enters, the present year, more
definitely than ever before, upon the policy of maintaining an Ad-
visory Committee that, under the chairmanship of an Advisor>'
Officer, shall do all that it can to secure wise election on the part
of the students of the College Department. As Advisory Of-
ficer, Professor Wager makes the following clear statement of the
reasons for this action, and the methods by which it is hoped that
this important work may be done:

"In Oberlin College, as elsewhere, it has become plain that if the elec-
tive system is to produce the best results, students must not be left without
guidance in their choice of studies. It is not true that any great number of

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our students choose the easier courses; on the contrary, the serious atten-
tion that they give to their choices and the eagerness with which they seek
advice are very notable. The danger is rather lack of forethought and of
the intelligence necessary to unify their courses. While the students under-
stand that the advice of their instructors is always at their disposal, and
while several members of the Faculty have already done much service of
this kind, it seems clear that a greater number of students can be reached,
and, what is of the utmost importance, at an earlier stage of their course,
if such advisory functions are more or less systematized and laid upon a
committee. The two objections that may seem incident to such an ar-
rangement must, however, be avoided, mechanism and coercion. The
studeq^ should not be allowed to feel that he is being subjected to any pre-
ari:anged scheme, but that his peculiar needs are being considered on their
merits by an adviser who knows his bent and his possibilities. Advice of
this character will, of course, necessitate long and intimate conversations
between adviser and students, but it seems to us that a more profitable
expenditure of time and energy could hardly be made than this. In the
second place, the genuinely elective character must not be taken
from the elective system by such a device. The student will be urged to
seek advice, and to seek it at a definite time and of a definite person, but
he will be left entirely free to accept the invitation or the advice, at his
discretion. In order to make the system as complete as possible, a record
will be kept of the courses chosen, under advice, by students, and an inves-
tigation made from time to time into their success. This will make it possi-
ble, to correct errors before much mischief has been done, and that much
mischief is done by wrong elections there can be no doubt.

"The incidental advantages of the scheme will be considerable. It
will tend to bridge the gulf that too often yawns between student and in-
structor, and it should produce some interesting data concerning the practi-
cal working of the elective system in Oberlin College."

For the first time, the Registrar presents a re^lar report of
the work of that office, supplementing, in a helpful way, certain
portions of the report of the Secretary of the College, and es-
pecially carrying through, for the Class of 1905, as a typical class,
a history of all the changes that have occured in that class. With
reference to students classified as "special," where it will be noteo
that the chief losses occur, as shown in the reports of the Secre-
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it should be remembered that they come to be classed as special
students just because they are not planning for a regular college
course, and from the beginning usually do not intend to complete
such a course of study, either here or elsewhere. They have usu-
ally come with a distinct purpose of taking only a single year or
two of college study, with reference either to some further tech-
nical or professional work, or as the concluding part of their ed-
ucation; so that we owght not to be surprised or disturbed that a
large proportion of such students drop out during the freshman
and sophomore years. The working out, in the Registrar's ^ffice,
of a card catalogue of all existing records, is a most needed and
valuable gain.

The work of the Assigning Officer should also be mentioned
in the survey of the administration of the College, though this
officer presents no formal report. The smooth running of the ma-
chinery on the opening days, in the College Department, depends
very largely on the Assigning Officer; and there can be no doubt
that great gains have been made in recent years in the general
work of registration. When it is considered that the entire class-
ification and assignment for almost our entire enrolment is made
in all departments within two days, it will be understood that
the work must be carefully systematized and supervised.

The Director of the Conservatory, it will be seen, notes,
among the gains for that department, the very successful remodel-
ing of Warner Concert Hall and the consequent much more
satisfactory' provision for the new organ ; valuable additions to the
Conservatory Faculty; and the advance made in the growth and
increasing efficiency of the Conservatory Orchestra. The college
students are also to be warmly congratulated on the opportunity
which the Conservatory is opening to them in the new course by
Professor Dickinson, in the study of how to listen to music.
Very few colleges in the country will be able to offer such a priv-
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recognize the generosity of the Conservatory in making this pro-
vision. The long list of recitals reported by the Director, is a su?;-
gestion of the opportunities in this way that the Conservatory is
constantly opening to its own pupils. The last diplomas to be
given by the Conservatory of Music were probably awarded at the
last Commencement. Hereafter, all graduates from the Conser-
vatory will be expected to meet the conditions for the degree of
Bachelor of Music. The classification of students in the Conser-
vatory' Catalogue with reference to literary requirements — in ac-
cordance with the new by-laws adopted by the Trustees — ^will
undoubtedly tend to increase the number of conservatory stu-
dents fulfilling the requirements for admission to College. And
the President is specially interested in noting the various ways,
indicated by the Director, in which the general standard for ad-
mission is being raised. This effort may be profitably carried still
farther. For, in all probability, really desirable students from a
musical point of view, whom a definite literary requirement for
admission would cut off, could be admitted to the Academy, tak-
ing the major part of their work there and at the same time carry-
ing on partial work in the Conservatory. In the end, such stu-
dents would be very certainly better representatives of the Con-
servatory, even on the musical side.

The report of the Principal of the Academy makes it plain
that the policies of the Academy are being pushed in the line of the
recommendations of the Trustee Committee on the Academy, and
of the Advisory Committee. The Principal is aiming to use intel-
ligent means to reach precisely those students and schools that mosr
need the supplementary help of the Academy. And there is good
evidence that the esprit de corps of the Academy has been distinctly
stimulated. The addition of a second Academy House for the
young women of the Academy, is a further step toward the adop-
tion of something like a cottage system for the Academy. It is
to be hoped that in another year the plans of the Principal for

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securing one or two such houses especially for the younger Acad-
emy boys, may be carried through. The Secretary of the College
furnishes the following table, showing the enrolment of men and
women in Oberlin Academy for the last four years:

Men Women Total

1901-02 136 134 270

1902-03 175 155 330

1903-04 176 129 305

1904-05 •. . . 214 148 362

It wnll be seen from this table that there has been a considerable
growth in the Academy up to the end of last year. The statistics
of enrolment for the Fall term each year since 1901 may also be
added :

Men Women Total

Fall Term, 1 901 130 112 242

" ** 1902 150 135 285

" " 1903 161 118 279

" " 1904 20I 124 325

" " 1905 178 137 315

The total enrolment for the present term, it will be seen,
is but slightly less than that for last year, but the proportion of
men has been considerably reduced. The reasons for the falling
oflF of the men, the Principal is carefully inquiring into now.

The report of the Chairman of the Summer School, Profes-
sor C. B. Martin, shows an unusually strong list of courses given,
notes distinct gains made in the enrolment in the normal courses,
and reports the largest enrolment that the Summer School, as a
whole, has ever had. It is particularly gratifying to note that this
enrolment includes eighteen college graduates. It is evident that
the Summer Session is performing a valuable service.

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Men's Gymnasium are plain — the very large use of the Gymna-
sium by the men in all departments of the College, the percentage
of enrolment here being very remarkable; the increase in the
number of under-graduates taking credit courses; and the com-
paratively large number of men who seem to have taken part in
some form of athletic sports during the year. The last point is es-
pecially worth noting, as against the common criticism that a
very small number of college men really take part in athletics. It
will be seen that the Director hopes to be ^ble to make still greater
gains in this direction through better provision for an out-door
field in immediate connection with the Gymnasium. It is the
large and even remarkable success of the work of the Gymnasium
that seems to call so loudly for the completion of the rest of the
building. It could hardly have been anticipated that the need for
the rest of the building would have been so great in so short a
time. But it is hard to estimate the contribution which this single
building is making to the interests of the men of the Institution.
It is impossible to read the report of the Director of the Wo-
men's Gymnasium, without having one's first thought one of the
pity of the necessary limitation in numbers on account of the
smallness of the Gymnasium. It is to be hoped that the greatly
needed new Gymnasium for Women may not be long deferred.
With more than a thousand women to be provided for, it is
deplorable that nearly seven hundred should be virtually shut
out of gymnasium opportunities. But if the need of the general
body of students is quite overlooked, the absolute demands of the
Teachers' Course in Physical Training for Women itself requires
some enlargement of the present Women's Gymnasium building.
The Director has worked out a very careful and economical rec-
ommendation as to possible changes in the building, that would
meet these absolute needs of the Teachers' Course, and yet later
leave a building that could be advantageously used for providing
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Hanna has very naturally and wisely directed her especial atten-
tion to increasing interest in out-door sports, with excellent re-
sults. It will be noticed that forty-eight are now enrolled in the
Teachers' Course in Physical Training for Women ; and the Col-
lege has more calls for women prepared to do physical training
work than it can as yet meet.

The report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Groum's
gives details concerning the changes incident upon the Baldwin
Cottage fire, Campus improvements, and the clearing up of the
Arboretum. The grounds of the College have probably never
been in so good condition as to-day. The work of the Superin-
tendent of Buildings and Grounds involves, necessarily, a great
mass of detail that cannot easily be gathered together mto a re-
port.

The Work of the President

The work of the President has continued through the year in
essentially the same lines as hitherto. It has necessarily involved
teaching in the two departments of Philosophy and Theology,
organization and administration, much outside representation, pri-
mary responsibility in shaping the aims and ideals of the College,
financial work, and some writing for publication. In the two
courses carried in the College, the President has had the con-
tinued cooperation of Professor Bosworth and Dr. Fitch, and
in the course in Theology, help in much routine work from his
Secretary. The work of administration in all directions is goini^^
with increasing smoothness, as the natural result of more complete
and careful organization.

The calls for addresses of all kinds, and invitations
to various representative functions, are far more than it is
possible for the President to* accept; though he has undertaken
even more work of this kind during the past year than in the year
preceding, and probably more than it would usually be wise to at-

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tempt. He IS purposely cutting down considerably this side
of his work the present year, in order to give his attention much
more exclusively to the development of the work at home. He
hopes to know the home situation more perfectly than ever before,
by the end of the present year. Plans are on foot that it is hoped
will make it possible for the Faculty to help the President more
than they have hitherto done in this work of outside representa-
tion. As last year, the outside work of the President has been di-
vided among alumni gatherings, universities and colleges, high
schools, educational meetings, and important church gatherings,
and has involved, besides, numerous addresses, lectures, and ser-
mons. The President has attended alumni gatherings in Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Frankfort (Mich.), Chi-
cago, Kansas City, Lincoln (Neb.), and Berkeley (Cal.). The
most important of these outside engagements were perhaps the
sermons and addresses before eleven different colleges and univer-
sities; addresses before the Congregational Clubs of Boston and
Milwaukee; two addresses before the Congress* of Disciples at
Columbia, Missouri ; an address at the dedication of Broadway
Tabernacle; and addresses before the Religious Education Asso-
ciation at Boston ; the Conference on Religious Education at
Champaign, Illinois; the Christian Endeavor Convention at
Baltimore; and the Inter-Church Conference on Federation in
New York; seven lectures on "The Seeming Unreality of the
Spiritual Life" at the Federate Summer School of Theology, at
Berkeley, California; six lectures on "The Sermon on the Mount"
at the Yankton (Dak.) Summer School of Theology; six lectures
on "Psychology and Life" at the Congregational Summer Assem-
bly at Frankfort (Mich.).

The main publication for the year by the President is the
volume. Rational Living: Some Practical Inferences from Mod'
em Psychology. The manuscript for this book has been in prep-
aration for some ten or twelve years. Its aim is perhaps suffi-

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ciently indicated by the title. Work has been continued during:
the year on the department in the Congregationalistj called "The
Professor's Chair," and there have been indications that the de-
partment has not been valueless. At the request of the editor of
the Pilgrim Teacher, a series of letters has also been published
during the year addressed to Sunday School Teachers, and in-
tended to present in simple and direct, but at the same time in
fundamental fashion, the great Christian truths. Various arti-
cles and reviews have been published during the year, though the
time at the disposal of the President for this kind of work has
made it necessary to decline many requests for articles. The
President has felt justified, however, in giving a certain amount
of time to this work, in the belief that it ought to be valuable not
only to him personally, but also finally for the College.

Such time as the President has been able to devote to finan-
cial work during the year has met, he is glad to say, with a cordial
and gratifying response; and he hopes to be able to continue to
take a reasonable share in the attempt to build up the College in
its material resources.

The President has not doubted, however, that his high-
est responsibility lay in doing; in connection with Trustees
and Faculty and students, all possible in shaping the ideals
and aims of the College. It is for this reason that, in spite
of many calls for addresses elsewhere on Sunday, he has continued
his Sunday Bible Class; for he has regarded it as perhaps his very
best opportunity to help in raising and determining the ideals of
the college life. Numerous chapel addresses during the year are
directed to the same end, and his entire work with the senior cla^s,
it is hoped, will make not only its contribution personally to the
members of that class, but may also help, through them, to affect
the entire college atmosphere. To this same end, it was felt that
more might well be made of the opening address of the year, so
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very beginning to the real significance of their college education,
and do something toward ensuring that the highest motives should
be those most potent in the college life. Back of all these more pub-
lic and formal methods there must of course always lie the subtler
and deeper methods of personal influence and personal conference,
in which the President simply shares in the very valuable contri-
bution continually made by the Faculty to the students, and bv
the students to one another. It is the aim, of course, of all our
work, to have it so completely and wisely organized that it shall
naturally tend to bring about the highest results in the individual
and social life of the students. But the results here cannot be
wrought out at arm's length, or through mere organization. And
it has been a great pleasure for the President to find the oppor-
tunity, in the cutting oflF of some of the outside work, for the
closer personal association with individuals, that he most of all
desires. With the completion of the remodeling of the President's
house, it has been possible to make it a much larger factor, it is
hoped, than was before possible in the entire social life of the
College and community. The responsibilities on this side, of
course, are not small, and must be continually increasing; and they
often, if not always, mean much more than the opportunity for
merely social intercourse. The gathering of the Faculty as a whole
at their luncheon in June, several meetings of the Deans and Heads
of Departments, the bringing together of the senior classes of the
Seminary and of the College, the luncheon given in honor of Dr.
Patton, the new Home Secretary of the American Board, bring-
ing together t^^^entj'-two men from almost every quarter of the
globe — these may be taken as illustrations of the way in which
it is hoped that the President's house may increasingly serve the
College.

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Deaths

Professor Albert Allen Wright died at his home in Obcrlin,
Sunday, April second, and was buried in the afternoon of April
fifth. At the memorial services, his pastor, Dr. Henry M. Ten-
ney, spoke of Professor Wright's work in the church. Professor
Root, of Professor Wright as a citizen, and the President, of Pro-
fessor Wright's contribution to the College. Professor Hall pre-
pared a careful appreciation of him for the Alumni Magazine
for May, and this May number included also the addresses made
at the funeral, and was sent by the College as a special memorial
number to all the alumni. One may well hesitate, within the
limits of such a report as this, to attempt to do any justice to the
inestimable service that Profesor Wright has rendered to the Col-
lege. The thirty-one years of continuous service include far more
than can be briefly summarized. The Trustees and Faculty have
both put on their records their high sense of the value of his
services, and citizens and students have united with college officials
in their tribute to his worth. Perhaps I may appropriately transfer
to these pages a part of my estimate of his contribution to the
life of the College. Probably no other man was so prominent a
factor as he in making the important transition from the older to
the newer college, with its definite recognition of natural science
and the newer scientific methods, with its severer intellectual
standards along modem lines, and with its demand for larger and
more specialized equipment on the part of its teachers. Professor
Wright himself was in charge of the first laboratory work by
students in chemistry, in zoology, in botany, and in geology,
and was, thus, practically the pioneer in nearly all the scientific
work, in the more modern sense, that the College has done. It
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sition was made so thoroughly and yet so quietly, was largely
due to Professor Wright.

As Chairman of the Faculty at a trying and discouraging
period, taking a task which was, for a man of his disposition, one
of peculiar diflficult>% he gave himself to it, as we all know, with-
out stint, holding, as he alwaj^ held, the College before his own
personal ambitions, and really breaking under the work. His
brethren trusted in him with a confidence which he never failed
to deserve — for he seemed never to say the unwise or the unhappy
thing, and he was always thoughtful of the various bearings of
the policies he adopted. Few men had so delicate a sensitiveness
to the meanings of things. None of us are likely at this point,
either, to over-estimate the service of this quiet, alert, thoughtful,
steadfast man.

But yet, as always with such a man, his greatest contribu-
tion to the College and the community has been his unique person-
ality. A man of strong, sound sense, it is difficult to look back
over these twenty-five years and see a place where he has been
seriously misled in his judgment. He was one of the men to be
depended upon. Careful, painstaking, deliberate, well-balanced
judgment he had ; and he had such a judgment because he was also
a man of complete open-mindedness and of a genuinely sympa-
thetic spirit. Of profound intellectual honesty, far removed from
a bigoted position, with an appreciative response to a wide range of
interests quite outside of his special sphere of study, he seems to
me to have solved, as few men have ever solved, the paradox of
sympathetic justness, of honest considerateness. It is the most
difficult thing, perhaps, that we are ever called upon to do, to
combine justness with kindliness and love, to combine absolute
honesty with thoughtful considerateness. And yet, I think that
there is hardly another thing about which his colleagues would
more certainly agree than that he succeeded, in rare degree, in
just this.

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The death of Dr. Francis Duncan Kelsey should also be men-
tioned in this connection. Dr. Kelsey was Professor of Botany in
the College from 1893 to 1897. I" giving a record of Dr.
Kelsey*s gifts to the College, in a preceding part of this report, his
successor in the Chair of Botany, Professor Grover, has already
paid deserved tribute to the importance of Dr. Kelsey's services
to the College. And the eight years of his ministry in the Cen-
tral Congregational Church of Toledo, since his resignation of his
professorship, were years of intense activity and of rarely wide
accomplishment. It would have been impossible for any thought-
ful person to be present at the memorial services in Central
Church without reah'zing the singularly strong hold that Dr.
Kelsey had upon his brethren in the ministry, of all denomina-
tions. And his gifts to the College and his constant labor for its
welfare, proved how large and sincere was his interest to the very-
end. We may well pay tribute to his memory.

It will not be inappropriate, especially in conection with the
account of the death of Professor Wright, to mention also the
loss that has come to the College through the death of Judge John
tV, Steele, on April 26, 1905. Judge Steele showed a persistent
and an almost unmatched devotion to Oberlin*s interests, both in
the defense of her reputation and in the care of her practical in-
terests. Judge Steele was one of the most marked examples I have
even seen of devotion to the public good, as shown in a practical
service — carried out with patience and persistence. He was will-
ing to wait long, but was carrying on all the while an unwearied
struggle for what the community really needed, even if it did not
know it; and opposing with equal conviction and earnestness,
measures he believed unwise, even if they were widely favored.
He was a fine example of the thoughtful, unpaid, unselfish public
servant, and has again and again taken a large share in projects
for the promotion of community and college interests that in-
volved time and labor and sacrifice,

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Resignations
In the College Department the following resignations were
accepted: Dr. Ernest Ludlow Bogart resigned his position, after
five years of successful teaching, as Professor of Economics and
Sociology, to accept a similar position with his alma mater, Prince-
ton University. The resignation was accepted with real reluc-
tance. Mr. Ernest Sutherland Bates resigned his position as In-
structor in English Composition, to undertake further graduate
study at Columbia University'. Mr. Harry James Smith, In-
structor in English Composition, resigned to take up work as a
journalist. Mr. Robert Logan Baird, Assistant in Zoology and
Geology, resigned his position to take the Principalship of Den-
mark Academy, at Denmark, Iowa. In the Men's Gymnasium,
Mr. Edwin Fauver resigned his Instructorship in Physical Train-
ing, to take up medical study at Columbia University. In the
Conservatory of Music, Mr. Bruce Headlcy Davis resigned his
position as Teacher of Pianoforte to continue his study in Leipzig,
Germany, and Miss Estelle Reed, Teacher of Public School
Music, gave up her work to go, as the wife of Rev. Thomas
King, to missionary work in St. Selinda, East Central Africa.
In the Academy, there were three resignations: those of Mr.
Henry Chester Tracy, as Tutor in Botany and Zoolog>% Mrs.
Antoinette Beard Harroun, as Tutor in German, and Mr.
Henry Strong Huntington, Jr., as Tutor in English. The work
of all these teachers was done with conscientious fidelity and the
best wishes of the College attend them in the new tasks to which
they have turned. The resignation of Miss Flora Bridges, as
Secretary to the President, has already been mentioned in con-
nection with the administrative officers.

Leave of Absence

In addition to these resignations, by vote of the Trustees at
the semi-annual meeting on June 26, 1905, leave of absence for

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the year 1905-06 was granted to Rev. Albert Temple Swing, D.
D., Professor of Church History in the Theological Seminary,
for further st\idy at the University of Berlin ; in the College De-
partment, to Rev. Lj'man Bronson Hall, A. M., Professor of
History, for study at Oxford and Cambridge, England; to Mr.
William DeWeese Cairns, A, M., Associate Professor of Math-
ematics (for one or two years at his option) for further study at
the University of Gottingen; and to Mr. William Eugene
Mosher, Ph. D., Instructor in German, for study and teaching
in Germany ; and in the Conservatory of Music, to Mr. Frederick
Giraud Doolittle, Professor of Violin, for further study in Berlin ;
and to Mr. Herbert Harroun, Instructor in Singing, for further
study in Berlin. In the Academy, leave of absence (for one or two
years at his option) was voted to Mr. Earl Foote Adams, A.M.,
Instructor in Physics, for further study at Harvard University;
and for the year 1905-06, to Mrs. Alice Mead Swing, Tutor in
German, for further study at Berlin.

For the year 1904-05, leave of absence for one year was
granted to Mr. Lynds Jones, Instructor in Zoology, to continue
his studies at .the University of Chicago; and leave of absence for
two years to Miss Mary Eleanor Barrows, Instructor in English,
to continue her studies in Yale University; and for one year to
Miss Alice Chipman McDaniels, Instructor in German, to con-
tinue her studies at the universities of Marburg and Berlin; and
to Mrs. Maud Tucker Doolittle, Teacher of Pianoforte in the
Conservatory of Music, for further study at Berlin. Professor
Wright's death made Mr. Jones's return before the close of the
year necessary, but the Faculty of the Zoological Department of
the University of Chicago arranged for Mr. Jones to complete his
work in absentia, so that he was able to meet the conditions of the
Faculty for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, which he received
in regular order at the University Convocation, in June, 1905-
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Chicago in their Summer Session. Miss Barrows, who was ab-
sent on leave for two years, has sent to the President her resig-
nation as Instructor in English, and her marriage to Mr. Frank
Irwin is announced for the present month. Miss McDaniels has
returned to her work in the Academy, and Mrs. Doolittle is to
spend a further year at BeHin. Mr. George Carl Hastings, who
was given a leave of absence beginning with 1903-04, is taking,
this year, his third and last year at the Leipzig Conservatory of
Music, and also doing some teaching there.

Besides these absences during the college year, several of the
Faculty were again abroad for travel or study for the entire
vacation : Dr. Delphine Hanna, Director of the Women's Gym-
nasium, Professor John Taylor Shaw, Associate Professor of
Latin, Miss Kate Waldo Peck, Instructor in Singing, and Mr.
Russell Parsons Jameson, Instructor in French. Professor G.
Frederick Wright, who was also abroad for the Summer, will
not return to his college work until the beginning of the second
semester.

Promotions

The following well-deserved promotions were made by the
Trustees at the semi-annual meeting, June 26, 1905:

College

Lynds Jones, Ph.D., from Instructor in Zoology and Assistant Cura-
tor of the Museum, to Associate Professor of Zoology and Assistant Curator
of the Museum.

Edward Alanson Miller, A.B., as Dean of College Men and per-
manent Professor of Pedagogy.

Louis Eleazer Lord, A. M., as permanent Instructor in Latin and
Greek.

Thomas Maynard Taylor, Ph.D., as permanent Instructor in Chemistry.

Russell Parsons Jameson, Ph. B., from Tutor in Declamation to In-
structor in French and Instructor in Physical Training, for one year.

James Seymour Luckey, A. M., from Teacher of Mathematics and

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Assistant in Physics Laborator}% to Instructor in Mathematics and Physics,
for one year.

Miss Flora Isabel Wolcott, L.B., from Assistant Registrar to Registrar,
Professor Charles Henry Adams Wager to serve as Advisory Officer.

Miss Alma Gracey Stokcy, from Assistant in the Botanical Laboratory
to Herbarium Assistant, for one year.

Academy

Charles Hulburd Burr, A. B., from Assistant in the Physical Labora-
tory to Tutor in Physics, for one year.

Clark Harold Sackett, A. B., from Assistant in Botany to Tutor in
Botany and Zoology, for one year.

The College is fortunate in having in Dr. Jones one who
can take up with so little break the work of Professor Wright for
the present year. The permanent appointment of Mr. Miller
implies, of course, the adoption of that feature of the organization
of the work of the College which provides for a Dean of College
Men. The permanent appointments of Mr. Lord and Mr. Taylor
were rcommended by the Council with peculiar satisfaction.
Mr. Jameson's appointment as Instructor in French means that
the election in French is so large as to demand an increase in the
number of elementary courses in that language. Mr. Jameson
had also had special preparation for the work in physical train-
ing, and will be able to take up with entire satisfaction that part
of the work given up by Mr. Edwin Fauver. Miss Stokey's ap-
pointment is made, in the language of Professor Grover, "to meet
a temporary but very urgent need to take care of recent gifts and
to make exchanges with colleges and museums that have asked
for them'*, and to bring into better order the duplicates and
unworked material which became badly disarranged in the re-
moval to thjC Lincoln House. Miss Stokey is admirably fitted for
this work. Mr. Burr and Mr. Sackett have been specially pre-
pared for their respective tasks in the Academy by assistants'
work in the same departments in the College.

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Reappointments

The list of reappointments for the year, as voted by the Trus-
tees at their semi-annual meeting, follows:

Library

Wiliara Wirt Footc, as Assistant in the College Library, for one year.

Miss Hattie Maude Henderson, as Assistant in the College Library,
for one year.

Miss Mary Jean Fraser, as Assistant in the College Library, for one
year.

Miss Mabel K.^ Marshall, as Assistant in the College Library, for
one year. Miss Marshall has since resigned to accept a higher position
elsewhere.

College

William Henry Chapin, A. B., as Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory,
for one year.

Men^s Gymnasium

William Clcland Clancy, A. B., as Teacher in the Men's Gymnasium,
for one year, partial work.

Women^s Gymnasium

Miss Lila Julia Wickwirc, as Instructor in Physical Training, for
one year.

Academy

Mrs. Mary Taylor Cowdery, Ph.B., as Tutor in French, for one year.
Edward James Moore, A. B., as Tutor in Mathematics, for one year.
Miss Alice Chipman McDaniels, A. B., as Tutor in German, for one
year.

Roy Vernon Hill, A. B., as Tutor in Mathematics, for one year.
John Ebcnezer Wirkler, A. M., as Tutor in History, for one year.

All these are reappointments of tested workers, and call for
no special comment.

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New Appointments

The entire list of new appointments, as made by the Trus-
tees at the semi-annual meeting, is as follows:

General

William Frederick Bohn, A. B., B. D., as Secretary to the President,
for one year.

College

Maynard M. Metcalf, Ph.D., as Professor of Zoology.

Albert Benedict Wolfe, Ph. D., as Associate Professor of Economics and
Sociology, for two years.

Edwin B. Branson, Ph. D., as Instructor in Geology, for one year.

Paul Griswold Huston, A. M., as Instructor in English Composition,
for one year.

Gilbert Lee Pennock, A. M., as Instructor in English Composition,
for one year.

Gordon Nelson Armstrong, A. M., as Instructor in Mathematics,
for one year.

Fritz Hagens, A. B., as Instructor in German for one year.

Walter R. Myers, A. B.. as Instructor in German, for one jear.

Russell Parsons Jameson, A.B., as Instructor in French and in Phys-
ical Training, for one year.

Miss Anna M. Starr as First Assistant in the Botanical Laboratory,
for two years.

Herbert Arthur Sturges, A. M., as Assistant in Psychology, for one
year.

William Garfield Mallory, A. B., as Assistant in Physics, part time,
for one year.

Men's Gymnasium

Walter Wyatt McKay, A.B., as Teacher in the Men's Gymnasium,
partial work, for one year.

Homer Waldo Spiers, as Assistant in the Men's Gymnasium, partial
work, for one year.

Richard Hoadley Long, as Assistant in the Men's Gymnasium, par-
tial work, for one year.

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Frederick Walter Elliott, as Assistant in the Men's G3rmnasium, par-
tial work, for one year.

Women's Gymnasium

Miss Frances Elizabeth Jones, as Assistant in Physical Trainints,
for one year.

Conservatory of Music

Richard Jose Ferrer, as Instructor in Violin, for one year.
Mjw Carolyn Harter, as Instructor in Violin, for one year.
Miss Lucile Reed, A. B., as Teacher of Public School Music, for one
year.

Mrs. Bertha Miller, as Teacher of Ear Training, for one year.

Academy

Joseph Roy Ellis, as Tutor in English and Declamation, for one year.
Alexander Dick, as Tutor in English, for one year.

Aside from these appointments, made by vote of the Trustees,
four other appointments have been made by action of the Pruden-
tial Committer On December 15, 1904, Miss Grace Tenney,
of the Class of 1900, was appointed a Teacher i^ German for the
rest of the college year, to provide for one extra class demanded
by the increase of students, continuing a previous similar appoint-
ment; and Mr. Clark Harold Sackett was appointed January 12,
1905, as Assistant in the Botanical Laboratory. For the present
year, the Prudential Committee has also approved the appoint-
ments of Mr. C. Lawrence Baker, as Assistant in the Zoological
Laboratory, and of Miss Ada Morris, as Instructor in Pianoforte
in the Conservatory of Music.

Mr. Bohn's appointment has already been referred to in the
discussion of administrative officers.

The appointment of Professor Metcalf, now of the Woman's
College of Baltimore, as Professor-elect of Zoology, with the ex-
pectation that he will begin his work with the year 1907-08, is in
such unusual form as to require, perhaps, a word of special cx-

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planation. Professor Metcalf, a pupil of Professor Wright's, is
a graduate of Oberlin College of the Class of 1889. He took his
doctorate in zoology at Johns Hopkins University in 1893, and
has since been Professor of Zoology in the Woman's College of
Baltimore. He has had very rare opportunities in the constant
and close association with a large circle of trained investigators
in his department at Baltimore. He makes considerable sacrifice,
in coming to us, both in this fellowship of other investigators and
in salary. There is no question of Professor Metcalf*s unusual
fitness for this Chair, whether from the point of view of equip-
ment, of teaching ability, or of experience as an investigator. He
is certain to bring us real strength. On account of the very
cramped conditions of the departments of zoology and geologj'
at present, because of the pressure of the Library, after careful
consultation in the Council, it was agreed that the interests of the
College would probably be best served by deferring Professor
Metcalf's coming for two years, when it is hoped the new library
building may be available. The only alternative was putting con-
siderable expense into an increase in laboratory facilities — an ex-
pense that would be quite useless when the present library building
should be placed, as seems natural, at the disposition of the De-
partment of Zoology. In Professor Metcalf's case, therefore, the
Trustees voted that he be made the present year Professor-elect,
going on as hitherto with his teaching at the Woman's College.
During this year he will have prepared, under his careful super-
vision, a large amount of illustrative material which he would
need in connection with the courses which he would give here.
The year following, he will appear in our Faculty list as absent
on leave for a year's further study abroad. Professor Metcalf
has been planning to take such a year for some time, and we
should have to release him for it very soon if he came at once,
and it seems better, on the whole, that he should get the year be-
fore coming. This year would be taken, of course, without cx-

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pense to the College. This action of the Trustees should make
it clear that the College has no intention of taking any backward
step in the Department of Zoology, but on the contrary, intends to
go forward. At the same time, the arrangements made for the
zoology and geology for the present year continue essentially the
same work that has been done in this department.

Th^ names of more than twenty candidates for the Associate
Professorship of Economics and Sociology were before the Com-
mittee of the General Council, including professors in full charge
of departments in a number of other colleges. Dr. Wolfe was
finally recommended in the light of this entire investigation, par-
ticularly because of the unqualified endorsement of him by Pro-
fessor Car\'er of Harvard University, in whose candor and judg-
ment and interest in Oberlin we all have great confidence.

Dr. Branson brings the very highest record from his in-
structors at Chicago University, where he took his doctorate sum"
ma cum laude. His preparation has been very broad and thorough
in both biology and geology. Mr. Huston and Mr. Pennock both
bring experience in teaching as well as special training to their
work as Instructors in English Composition. Mr. Huston is a
graduate of Princeton University of the class of 1895, and a
Master of Arts of the same institution. Mr. Pennock is a grad-
uate of Antioch College of the Class of 1902, and a Master of
Arts of Ohio State University in 1904, where he was also Fellow
in English. These appointments are to fill the vacancies caused
by the resignations of Mr. Ernest Sutherland Bates and Mn
Harry James Smith.

The appointments of Mr. Hagens and Mr. Myers are to
fill the vacancy caused by the leave of absence given to Dn
William Eugene Mosher, and to provide for the necessary in-
crease in instruction in the German Department. Mr. Hagens
is a native of Bremen, Germany. He was graduated from Beloit
College in 1899. The next two years he taught in the Culver

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Military Academy. 1901-03 he was a graduate scholar at Har-
vard University, holding the Saltonstall felowship. During the
second year he won two prizes, one from the University, with an
essay on "The Aesthetic Elements in Novalis", the other from the
Dante Society of Cambridge, with an essay entitled "De Vulgare
Eloquio". Mr. Hagens was Instructor at Harvard 1903-05.
His work for the Doctor's degree is very nearly completed. Mr.
Myers graduated from the Northwestern University in 1903.
While an undergradute he assisted in the German Department.
1903-04 he studied at the University of Berlin. " 1904-05, he
taught at the Elgin Academy. Mr. Myers has about half his
work completed for the Doctor's degree.

Mr. Armstrong is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University
of the Class of 1897, ^md took his Master's degree at Harvard in
1903 ; he has had five years* experience as a teacher, and has been
a graduate student for three years in mathematics and physics in
Harvard University. Miss Starr has had several years' experience
in teaching botany and other subjects in high schools, and for the
past two years has taught botany in the Oberlin High School
with marked success. The appointment of Mr. Sturges, who is
admirably equipped for the work he is to undertake, gives to Dr.
MacLennan the relief so urgently demanded by his large amount
of work, particularly in connection with the required courses in
his department. Mr. Mallory did special work in the line of his
appointment during his college course, and is appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr. Charles Hulburd Burr's resignation as As-
sistant in Physics. The appointments in the Men's and Women's
Gymnasiums perhaps call for no special remark. The appoint-
ments of Mr. Ferrer and Miss Harter are made both to fill the
vacancy caused by the leave of absence of Mr. Frederick GirauJ
Doolittle, and to extend the instruction in that department. Both
come with the highest testimonials. Mr. Ferrer has studied in
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taught in Toronto University and in Cincinnati, and has been
first vioh'nist in the Cincinnati Orchestra, and a concert violinist
and teacher in New York City. Miss Harter studied in Paris,
and later in Geneva under Marteau. She has played much in
concerts, and has had experience in teaching, both privately and in
the University of Wooster. Miss Reed is a graduate of Oberlin
College, of the Class of 1904, and has had special preparation for
the work she undertakes. Mrs. Miller is also amply fitted to
give the instruction fof which she has been appointed. The ap-
pointments of Mr. Ellis and Mr. Dick are to fill the vacancies
caused by the resignation of Mr. Huntington and by the change
in Mr. Jameson's work. Both are graduates of the College, of the
Class of 1905, and did special work in college in the lines of theii
teaching. ,

Organization

The organization of the Faculty remains essentially the same
as last year, since the report of the Committee on Codification, so
far as concerns the Faculty, records for the most part simply
present practice. The changes made by the promotion of the
Assistant Registrar to Registrar, and in the appointment of an
Advisory Officer, have already been referred to. One committee
has been added to the list of standing committees, a Committee
on the Placing of Teachers. The work of this Committee can
hardly fail to be useful, especially in connection with the more
careful work in this direction which is planned to be done through
the Secretary to the President. The full list of committees is
published, as last year, in the earlier pages of this report. Perhaps
the most notable recent change in the committees is seen in the
much more careful organization of the arrangements for Com-
mencement, where there have certainly been very distinct gains
made in the issuing of engraved invitations to special guests, in
all the commencement printing, and in care for the entertainment

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of alumni and guests from out of town. And it is hoped that
some real advance has been made, as well, in the order and dignity
of the various commencement exercises. The thoroughly demo-
cratic plan upon which the Faculty of Oberlin College is organ-
ized, may well be emphasized once more, in view of recent pub-
lished protests against the very common conception of the college
and university president as a virtual autocrat. The reforms in
this direction, which have been urged at a recent educational con-
ference, and widely published in the press, are reforms that have
obtained here practically from the beginning. The President be-
lieves that the alumni are to be congratulated upon the wide
range of equipment of the Faculty, the broad suggestiveness
which they have shown in their work, the thorough manner in
which the Faculty is organized, and above all upon the high de-
gree of hearty co-operation achieved. There has been, for the
most part, a singular lack of jealousy and of self-seeking that has
made possible the growth of the College as a whole, to a de-
gree not otherwise attainable. I have seen enough of a different
kind of situation in some other colleges to appreciate deeply what
the unselfish devotion of the Oberlin Faculty has meant. They
seem to have had continually the whole institution in mind, and
to have been ready to sacrifice for the sake of the whole.

The President's luncheon to the Faculty was given this year
on June third, and it was a special pleasure to be able to welcome
the Faculty,' this time, at the President's house, instead of having
to provide for them at the hotel. There have also been some
other occasions in which the entire Faculty have been brought
thus together in a social way.

Important Official Actions

In bririging together here for permanent record what seem
to be the 'most important official actions of the Faculty, the Prcs-

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ident has made free use of the careful statements contained in the
Alumni Magazine for the year.

On November 8, 1904, the Facuhy voted that the year of residence
required for the degree of A.B. be construed to mean thirty semester hours
vrhich may be taken during the regular year or in Summer School. Up
to this time it has not been possible to get the degree merely on work
done during the Summer Session.

On November 22, 1904, the Faculty voted to recommend to the Trustees
that the Library be open during^ the entire day and till 9:30 in the evening,
closing only during the chapel service. This recommendation was after-
ward adopted by the Trustees.

On March 14, 1905, the General Faculty voted unanimously to peti-
tion the United Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for the establishment of a
Chapter in Oberlin. The vote was taken in the hope that the establish-
ment of such a Chapter might prove a real incentive to better scholarship;
the Faculty recognizing that, whether they would or not, special prizes
were practically open to students in every other line of endeavor than
scholarship. In explanation of just what this means, I may add the care-
ful statement of the Alumni Magazine: "The Phi Beta Kappa is a Greek
letter fraternity existing in sixty -three colleges in the United States. Mem-
bers are elected to it in various ways in the different institutions and at
different periods in the course, but the ground of election is invariably
scholarship. Secrecy is not a necessary feature of the society. Should a
Chapter be established at Oberlin the plan contemplated would make the
society consist of members elected at the close of their course. Not more
than one-eighth of the graduating class would be eligible and these would
be chosen strictly according to rank in scholarship unless morally unworthy.
The Chapter would not be secret. The Chapter constitution also provides
that the several societies may elect to membership those graduates of their
college whose post-graduate work entitles them to that honor. That such
a Chapter may be established in Oberlin is by no means beyond doubt.
Application for membership must be made to the National Council, must
be supported by at least five societies, and must be accompanied by a very
detailed application blank. The National Council will not meet again for
three years — hence no immediate steps can be taken, except to secure the
endorsement of the requisite five chapters. How searching an inquiry is
made into the work done by a college before this privilege of establish-
ing a chapter is granted may be seen from the fact that seven out of
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because the character of their work did not meet with approval. President
King and the following members of the Faculty, who are also members of
Phi Beta Kappa» were appointed a committee to make formal appIicatioD
for the establishment of the Chapter: Dean E. I. Bosworth, Professors A.
H. Currier, F F. Jewett, J. R. Wightman, F. O. Grovcr, C. H. A. Wager,
J. T. Shaw, Mr. H. J. Smith, and Mr. H. S. Huntington."

On March 14, 1905, "the College Faculty voted to establish at Obcr-
lin an examination week at the end of each semester. During this Tved^
two-hour examinations are to be held and no classes are to be heard.
There will be one examination period each morning and one each after-
noon, so that no student can have more than two examinations in one da^'.
If a professor sees Ht he may utilize the time so assigned to his courses for
recitations or lectures in case he desires to give no examinations. The Fac-
ulty were led to adopt this system to avoid the strain that now falls on a
pupil in taking three or four examinations in different subjects in consec-
utive hours. It was also felt that it would give leisure for a more satis-
factory and thorough examination contemplating a complete review of the
work of the semester. This in no way does away with the daily marking
system, which will be retained. The Review, voicing the student senti-
ment, regards the system as a relief and not as a new method of op-
pression."

On May 23, 1905, it was voted that hereafter the President and the
Dean of the Theological Seminary should be asked each to conduct one
chapel service every week. It was hoped that such an arrangement might
not only bring a littie relief to other members of the Faculty, but also
give a little greater unity, possibly, to the chapel sifrvices themselves. The
plan has been fully in operation since the beginning of the present year.

*0n June 13, 1905, the Faculty voted to approve the report of the Com-
mittee on the Alumni Magazine, The report of the Committee provides
for the formation of a stock company to be known as the Oberlin Alumni
Magazine Publishing Company, with a capital stock sufficient to finance
the magazine. The stockholders will receive full subscriptions to the
amount of the stock (probably $10.00). Stockholders' meetings will be
held each Commencement, at which a board of directors will be elected,
who shall appoint the editors and managers of the magazine. Some of
the directors will probably be nominated by the alumni at their regular
meeting at Commencement."

At the same meeting, the requirements for the degree of Master of
Arts were revised. Hereafter none of the work can be done in absenda.

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and DO work of elementary nature can be counted toward the degree. The
thesis is no longer a necessary requirement, but a reading knowledge of
French or German is obligatory.

Reports

In a brief survey of the reports of the Faculty, they will not
be taken up as last year in the order of seniority, but, in order to
bring allied subjects in close connection, will be classified into
four large groups: Language, Literature, and Art; Mathematics
and the Sciences; History and Economics; Philosophy, Psycholo-
gy, Pedagogy', and Theology.

Language, Literature, and Art

Perhaps the most notable thing in connection with the work
of the Chair of Old Testament Language and Literature during
the year, was the large number in attendance upon the difficult
three-hour course in the History of Israel. Quite aside frora
anything contained in Professor FuUerton's report, it is proper for
the President to add that this first year of Professor FuUerton's
work in the Theological Seminary has been a year of the most
unmistakable success, from the point of view of both Faculty and
students. Professor Fullerton's publications for the year include
a very suggestive article for the American Journal of Theology,
entitled "A New Chapter out of the Life of Isaiah."

The work of Dean Bosworth, as Professor of New Testa-
ment Language and Literature, has continued along the lines in-
dicated in the Catalogue. The report also contains a partial
record of Professor Bosworth's important outside work:

"The most important part of my outside work consisted in attendance
upon Student Conferences at Ruston, Louisiana, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,
and Lakeside, Ohio; addresses before students in Ann Arbor, McGill,
Wellcsley, Olivet, Central College, Iowa College, Union Theological Sem-
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isterial Institutes at Yankton, South Dakota, Frankfort, Michigan, and
Grinnell, Iowa. In addition, I taught a Business Men's Bible Class every
Tuesday evening through the Winter in the Cleveland Young Men's Chris-
tian Association. The average attendance for the season was fifty-one,
and it has begun this Fall with an increased enrolment (probably about
one hundred."

Professor Charles B. Martin, reporting for the Department
of Greek and Greek Archaeology, calls attention to the fact that
the work of the department has been greatly helped by fitting up
Sturges Hall for lectures illustrated with the lantern:

"The occupation of Bradley Auditorium by the Museum of Natural
History necessitated some such provision; and the audience room in Stur-
ges Hall answers this purpose admirably, nor has it been marred by the
installation of the lantern and the necessary curtains. The attendance upon
the Tuesday lectures in connection with the course in Greek Sculpture,
on the part of thoyc who are not members of the class, increased. The
needs of the department arc: funds for the purpose of archxological appa-
ratus; on the philological side the increased library appropriation has
greatly relieved the situation. As a secondary need, and one which will
be felt increasingly by all departments of the College proper, may be
mentioned an increase in the number of recitation rooms."

Dr. Charles Nelson Cole, Professor of the Latin Language
and Literature, reports:

"Latin seems to be more than holding its own in attracting students.
The enrolment in the freshman sections continued to be almost exactly
cqual to the number of freshmen who enter from year to year with full
preparation in Latin, while the higher classes, though fluctuating from
year to year, occasionally tax the resources of the department to the utmost.
It is much to be regretted, however, that the number of men electing this
work remains very small. We have several times found ourselves, when
asked, unable to nominate candidates for teaching positions in which men
were required."

Professor Cole also notes that a feature of peculiar interest

to him in the year's work was the relation into which he was

brought with the Latin work of the hi<^h schools of the vicinity:

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training course led me to make several visits to the Oberlin High School,
and to try, by advice and direct assistance, to aid in improving the work.
Before the Conference of College and Secondary Teachers at Western Re-
serve University ip November, I read a paper on *The Educational Value
of Latin, dealing especially with those phases of the question which applied
to high schools. I also spoke once before the Quarterly Institute of the
Teachers' Association of Huron County, and twice before the high school
section of the Lorain County Institute. Throughout the year I gave an
advanced course in Lucretius for such Latin teachers of the vicinity as
could avail themselves of it, five in all. The course was somewhat in the
nature of a seminar, the discussions often straying to related questions of
linguistic and pedagogic interest. To me this work was interesting and
inspiring in the highest degree, and it is a source of keen regret to me thai
the pressure of regular work makes it impossible for me to keep up the
course this year. Lastly, my Summer School course for teachers this year,
for the first time, drew a number of teachers from the outside."

Miss Arietta A I. Abbott, Professor of the German Language
and Literature, notes with gratitude that "the appointment of a
third Instructor for 1905-06 has entirely relieved the crowded con-
dition referred to in my last report. Owing to Dr. Mosher*s
absence on leave, a second new appointment was made. The two
new Instructors come to the work with good equipment and with
experience in teaching.*'

The situation in the Department of the Romance Languages
and Literatures, is thus stated by Professor John R. Wightman:

"The creation of a fourth section in French I, which was urged in
my last report, has been carried out this Fall. The additional section has
been put in charge of Mr. R. P. Jameson, who has just returned from a
successful Summer spent in study in Paris. Mr. Jameson has also relieved
Mt. Cowdery of one hour of his teaching. In spite, however, of the addi-
tional instruction provided in the class in beginning French, its divisions
are again over-crowded. As the sections, if best results are to be obtainrd,
should certainly not contain more than twenty-five students, while they
each number at present more than thirty, the creation of a fifth division in
this class is certainly necessary, and we trust this may be done next year.
There are now actually 132 students in the classes in beginning French.
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year. Instead of, as previously, during but one semester. The attendance ,
of students and their interest justified this step. Among the events of I
special importance to the department was the visit of M. Frantz Funck-
Brentano. His lecture in French on the 'Bastille' was greatly appreciated,
and his visit to the French classes was helpful and stimulating. This year,
too, for the first time, our students attempted the public rendering of a
French play. The one chosen was one of Moliere's. The results obtained
fully repaid the time expended by the teachers and the student participants.
On account of its educational value, we hope to repeat the experiment year
by year. The French Club held its meetings weekly. Under its new or-
ganization, as a branch of the French Alliance, it seemed to take on fresh
life, and proved itself even more than in previous years a valuable ad-
junct to the work of the class-room. During the year we were able to
make small additions to the still very meager supply of Spanish and Ital-
ian books in the Library."

The report of Professor Charles H. A. Wager for the Eng-
lish Department contains several points of special interest:

"During the past year, the Department of English has lost two valua-
ble men in Mr. Smith and Mr. Bates. They left a distinct impress upon
the literary interests of their students. The English Club, founded and
carried on through their efforts, while not officially recognized by the de-
partment, is a thoroughly serious and useful institution. I hope that it
may do much to foster a literary interest in the College which has hitherto
been almost entirely lacking.

"In this connection it has occurred to me that we were perhaps unwise
in not recognizing the form of literary interest that is most prevalent in
our student body, the dramatic. It is exceedingly difficult to obtain suffi-
cient literary material to supply the student publications. It is never diffi-
cult, I judge, to find persons who are willing to give much time and in-
genuity to the performance of a play. The interest in the drama, while
liable to much abuse, may, under proper restrictions, be made a valuable
means of literary training. The English Department of Harvard Uni-
versity has undoubtedly found it so. Hitherto, the plays performed have
hardly been of educational moment, but during the pastyear I am glad to
record that performances were given of John Lyly*s Campaspi and of the
Miracle Play of Abraham and Isaac, both with some attempt at reproduc-
ing contemporary methods, and both with really good eflFect. I am not at
all sure that a supervised dramatic club, restricted to the performance of
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od of arousing in our students a personal interest in literary matters out-
side of their regular work, which is, of course, the best indication of the
success of literary courses.

"The chief present need of the department is an associate professor,
wrho might perhaps be temporarily shared with some other department.
While our elementary courses are sufficiently numerous, we are not in a
position to offer such advanced courses as will best prepare students for
graduate study and attract them to it, nor are we able to offer much of
value to our own graduates who return to us for their Master's degree.
My experience as Advisory Officer, also, convinces me that the College
in general would profit by a larger number of severe advanced courses,
which would not only be intrinsically valuable, but would react favorably
on all elementary work.

" The college entrance requirements in English are a subject of per-
ennial interest and controversy. While I welcome the increased elasticity
of the requirements, it seems to me clear that the emphasis on English in
the high school is likely to become excessive, if it is not already so. I am
quite aware that no freshman is too well prepared in English, and that
many smaller high schools have little or no English instruction of value.
But it is, in my judgment, plain that there is a marked tendency to sacri-
fice to English, subjects of greater disciplinary value. I therefore deprecate
our yielding to the demand of many high schools that we accept four
units of preparatory work in English, as I am convinced that in many
cases this implies a sacrifice of ancient or modern languages or of the sci-
ences. If we could bring ourselves to give credit for three full years of
English and no more, I have no doubt that it would in the long run have
a salutary effect on the preparation of the students who come to us.

"My record of publication is 'the short and simple annals of the poor*
in leisure and in energy. It consists of sundry book-reviews, signed and
unsigned, in The Dial, In this connection, I am glad to note that Mr.
Bates's paper on *The Optimism of Thomas Hardy,* in the July issue of
The International Journal of Ethics, is attracting some attention."

Professor William G. Caskey, of the Department of Oratory
and Rhetoric, gives the encouraging judgment that there is better
work done in oratory and debate today than has been done any
time during his seven years of teaching here. His statement of the
recent change in the inter-collegiate debating will also be of in-
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"The withdrawal of the Ohio State University makes necessary thr
reorganizing of our Debating League. In the new organization there are
but three institutions, Western Reserve University, Ohio Wcsleyan Uni-
versity, and Obcrlin College. Heretofore, each of the institutions com-
posing the League has been going outside of the League for a second de-
bate. Under the new arrangement, each institution meets the other two an-
nually, meeting one with the affirmative and the other with the negative
of a question agreed upon by all. This plan not only reduces the expense
of debating, but heightens the interest in the contests themselves."

The report of Professor A. H. Currier for the Chair ot
Homiletics makes plain the interest and enthusiasm with which he
IS constantly remodeling his lecture courses, and indicates also the
extent of the outside work done for the College :

"My writing for the public was limited to the preparation of a ser-
mon of the Monday Club volume upon the International Sunday-School
Lessons for the next year. In the series of thirty volumes that have been
issued by the Monday Club, I have had more than forty sermons. During
the year under review, I have represented the College in quite a number
of pulpits: in the Euclid Avenue Congregational, Cleveland, the Toledo
First, the Shawmut Congregational, Boston, the Crombie Street, Salem, the
Central, Lynn, the Prospect Hill, Somerville, and the Congregational
churches of Framingham, Auburndale, and Newton Highlands."

The report of Miss Eva M. Oakes, Instructor in Drawing
and Paintinfr, shows the most successful year's work of her entire
period of teaching in the College:

"The exhibition at the end of the year showed a great gain in the
quality of the work done. The fact that students of ability have been will-
ing to remain for a period covering three or four years, has been a source
of great encouragement. The increasing number of college students elect-
ing the drawing courses, is also ver>' gratifying."

Dr. Florence M. Fitch makes the following report for the
courses offered in the English Bible:

"For the first time in some years the Biblical work of the College, with
the exception of the senior course, has been given into the hands of one
teacher, instead of having it divided between the professors of the Old
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it was believed, would be more than balanced by tl^ added unity, and es-
pecially by the increased interest which it was hoped the students would
take in the elective work, if given by the same teacher with whom they be-
came acquainted in the required freshman course. This expectation was
justified by the enrolment of forty-seven in the elective course in Old Tes-
tament Poetry and Wisdom offered in the second semester, and by the
election by some twelve or fifteen students of the course in Johannine Lit-
erature, given for the freshmen this year.

"Mention may here be made of my attendance at the Founders* Day
Exercises of Lake Erie College at Painesville, in October, and upon the ses-
sions of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
at Chicago, and the Conference of Colleges of the Interior at Galesburg,
both during the Spring. At the latter, I presented a paper upon 'The So-
cial Life of the College.*"

Mathematics and the Sciences

Professor Frederick Anderegji, of the Department of Mathe-
maticsj calles attention to the fact that an unusually small percent-
age of failures has occurred the past year in the freshman work,
and that the majority of those failures* were due to weak prepara-
tion. Professor Anderepg also notes the interesting fact that he
has one jrraduate student, a teacher in the Academy, who is now
taking his sixth consecutive year of mathematical study with him.
He also records some valuable additions to the mathematical libra-
ry, and expresses the hope that he will soon be able to add a
complete set of the greatest of all mathematical journals, Crelle*s
Journal.

Dr. Charles E. St. John, after reporting upon the regular
work of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, adds the fol-
lowing paragraph concerning the special matter of shop work,
that has been so much in mind for the last two or three years:

"Ohio Wesleyan University has this Fall opened to students, courses
in shop work and has issued a bulletin outlining the work for the first
and second years of engineering courses. Northwestern University has
offered such work for some years. It will be no innovation for Oberlin to
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not be wise for Oberlin to undertake to do the work with less than Ten
Thousand Dollars in hand for it This is a pressing question, not for the
Department of Physics, but for the Institution, in view of the decreasing
proportion of men and the desire of men for such work."

Dr. St. John also calls attention to the fact that "it has be-
come necessary to enlarge the equipment in the general course in
physics because of the increasing number of students applying for
that work. For a number of years the advanced courses have con-
tained a good proportion of graduate students. This has been a
source of satisfaction and inspiration and at the same time it has
demanded a good deal from the resources of the department, but
the cost has not been too great for the returns." The surprisinglj-
large election in the Department of Astronomy and Physics is
making Dr. St. John feel increasingly the need of a still larger
teaching force, and of more adequate quarters, not scattered as
now through four floors of a building. Dr. St. John also raises
the question whether the growth of the College may not soon make
more natural a little different division between departments, so
that there should be a Department of Mathematics and Astron-
omy, on the one hand, and a Department of Physics and Engi-
neering, on the other, with the purpose of later separating the last
two subjects.

The report of Professor F. F. Jewett, for the Department of
Chemistry, notes that for the first time in the history of the de-
partment ''advanced students enjoy the privilege of a course in
electro-chemistry. Electricity has grown to be of such vital im-
portance to many chemical operations, and an understandin;;
of it as related both to theoretical studies and to practical work
so necessary, that to withhold such a course longer seemed an in-
justice even to students in a college course."

Professor F. O. Grover, of the Department of Botany, calls
attention to "the great need of a small greenhouse for properly
conducting the work of the general courses in botany, and the ab-

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solute impossibility of giving a course in plant physiology without
a greenhouse." He adds:

"A course in plant physiology is important in order to round out the
work in botany, and should be given in alternate years with comparati\?
anatomy of plants. For both these reasons, then, a small greenhouse should
be provided as soon as possible. One that would serve our present needs
could be built for $600, at the western end of the Lincoln House."

The report of Dr. Lynds Jones, Associate Professor of Zool-
ogy, contains the following interesting statements concerning the
Museum:

"The removal of the Museum to the third floor of Peters Hall necessi-
tated a prodigious amount of work in rearrangement, the display of speci-
mens which have been stored away in boxes for years, and the selection
of specimens best suited for class demonstration. This work was carried
forward by Professor Wright vigorously, and undoubtedly largely con-
tributed to the impaired health which culminated in his sudden and un-
timely death. He saw, in the comparatively liberal amount of floor and
wall space in the new quarters, the possibility of more nearly realizing his
ideals for the Museum. He left it far superior to any Museum in the
State in the value of the specimens, in their arrangement, and in the com-
pleteness of series selected for educational purposes. He believed that the
Museum should illustrate the orderly sequence of natural phenomena, as
far as the materials at hand would warrant, and he brought to the task
a rare faculty for selecting out the essential things. He could not wish a
better monument. With the aid of students and what time Mr. Baird was
able to spare from his other duties, order was restored after the disorder
necessitated by the removal of the Museum. There has always been press-
ing need of work upon collections and specimens which have been re-
ceived, but never properly labelled. Hitherto these collections and speci-
mens have had to remain boxed, suffering the damage which is inevitable
for specimens which cannot be systematically and regularly examined.
The added space in the present Museum and in the space which still re-
mains to us in the library building, makes this work possible. Some of
it was done while Professor Wright remained to direct it, but much re-
mains to be done. Three times the amount of the appropriation which it
has seemed possible to make to the Museum could be profitably spent in
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material which should be so placed that it could be used for class demon-
stration purposes.*'

Dr. Jones expresses also his conviction that the work of the
Zoological Department could be so shaped that all of the work of
the first year in medicine "could be given without any consider-
able additional expense in either equipment or instruction. While
the number of such men will never be great — perhaps never mor^
than fifteen in any jear — they are men whose influence with other
men in the College will count for much."

On account of Professor Wright's death, no report is made
for the work in Geology.

The report of the Professor of Physiology and Physical Train-
ing, Dr. F. E. Leonard, indicates the continuance of the work on
essentially the same lines as last year, but notes the extension in
certain directions of the work done in the Teachers' Course. Dr.
Leonard has added, as have the other teachers, at my special re-
quest, a statement of the work done by him in lectures and publi-
cations :

"March 27-April 7, in Chicago, 1 gave a series of ten lectures on *The
History of Physical Training* before students preparing for the physical
directorship at the Institute and Training School of Young Men's Chris-
tian Associations. This is a biennial course, v^hich I gave for the first
time in 1903. At the second annual meeting of The American Society
for Research in Physical Education, held in Teachers* College of Colum-
bia University, New York, April 20-21, I presented the first draft of a
paper on *The First Introduction of the Jahn Gymnastics into the United
States (1825-1830).* This subject, which is of considerable interest and
importance in connection with the early histor>' of physical training on our
side of the Atlantic, has since been worked out in detail and is now in
process of- serial publication. The most important gymnastic event in this
country is the quadrennial Turnfest of the united German-American
g>'mnastic societies (the North American Turnerbund)^ which now num-
bers more than 37,000 members. The last of these was held at In-
dianapolis on the 2ist-25th of June, and at the invitation of the Nationil
Executive Committee I was present during the whole of that time, as the
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mittee of observation, made up of persons outside the ranks of the turn-
ers. This was a much coveted privilege, which I had already enjoyed
on the occasion of the St. Louis Turn f est, in 1897. Here more than two
thousand active gymnasts took part in the great variety of exercises present-
ed, and the meeting was made especially memorable by the visit and par-
ticipation of a squad of nine men selected from and representing the Ger-
man Turnerschaft — the first time that vast popular organization of three
quarters of a million men has ever sent an official delegation to this
country.

"During the year I published the following: (i) A study of *Adolf
Spiess, the Founder of School Gymnastics in Germany,* in the November
Mind and Body (Milwaukee) ; (2) 'Per Henrik Ling, and his Success-
ors at the Stockholm Normal School of Gymnastics,' the concluding paper
in a series on 'School Gymnastics in Sweden,* published in the December
American Physical Education Revie^v; (3) a second paper on Triedrich
Ludwig Jahn, and the Development of Popular Gymnastics {Vereinstur-
nen) in Germany,* in the American Physical Education Revietw for
March, completing one which appeared in March of 1900; (4) 'The Pe-
riod of the Renaissance and the Reformation,* the first of two chapters
in the history of physical training which cover the transition from me«
disval to modern times, in the September American Physical Education
Revie*w. Most of the Summer vacation was spent in Obcrlin in further
study and writing connected with one of my regular courses of instruc-
tion.**

History and Economics

In Professor Hall's absence, no formal report has been sub-
mitted concerning his work in the Department of History for last
year, which was done on the lines prescribed in the courses as an-
nounced in the annual Catalogue.

In connection with her courses in the History of Art, Mrs.
A. A. F. Johnston calls attention to the fact that durino; the year
nearly three hundred photographs have been added to the art
collections. Mrs. Johnston has lectured during the year in Provi-
dence, R. L, in Springfield, Mass., and in our immediate vicinity
has given three lectures in Cleveland, two in Wellington, and ten
in Elyria.

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Professor Bogart, former Professor of Economics and So-
ciology, has kindly sent to me from Princeton a brief report of his
work here last year. He recommends the addition of two or
three attractive courses in politics and jurisprudence as es-
pecially attractive to men, noting that he finds at Princeton that
exactly one-half of the two upper classes are electing work in the
Department of History, Politics, and Economics the present year.
He believes that "the provision of such courses would strengthen
the curriculum on the liberal arts side more than any other change
that could be made." Professor Carver, as a member of the Ad-
visory Committee on instruction in this department also urges
"the appointment of an additional professor in political science
or government, in order that the professor of economics could de-
vote his time exclusively to that subject."

"I should like to insist," he continues, ''that there is no department
where either in the present or at any time during the past seven years
expansion was needed as in this field. In most of the growing colleges the
growth of interest in the fields of Economics, Political Science, and Sociol-
ogy has been greater than in any other branches of study, and it seems like-
ly that during the next generation or two the study of these branches will
undergo some such expansion as took place in the field of natural science
during the last generation or so. Therefore I cannot too strongly urge
the necessity of adapting the work of Oberlin College to this movement
and preparing her to take a prominent part in it. Let me say that the
proposal which I have made is scarcely a proposal for actual expansion,
but a proposal to terminate the period of contraction which dates from the
death of Professor Monroe."

Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Theology

The report of Dr. S. F. MacLennan as Professor of Philosophy
and Psychology, makes a clear statement of the conditions in that
department, and may be submitted almost in its entirety, and
without comment:

"Since my last report, and in response to an appeal made therein to
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organization of the department. The assistant recommended has been
appointed, and is now doing his work with satisfaction. That the aid
given to the department was timely, may be seen from the fact that al-
though Mr. Sturges's work is confined to the routine tasks of class reader
and of laboratory assistant, his time is fully occupied. Also my own time
is fully engaged with the conduct and oversight of the general work of
the department. Should the enrolment of the College continue to in-
crease in the future as it has in the past, and should the percentage of year-
ly increase in the department also continue as at present, there can be no
doubt but that a still greater proportion of work must before long be laid
upon the assistant. As matters stand at present, the addition to the de-
partment staff has brought a grateful sense of relief from over-crowding,
and although the amount of his class-room work has not diminished, still
your professor has more time and energy to give to it.

"The work of the past year shows a steady increase in the growth of
interest taken in the study of philosophy, as this may be measured both
by the numbers and type of students electing the higher branches and by
the grade of work done in the required studies. Each year, I believe,
finds the student body farther and farther removed from the thought that
required studies are an undesired infliction, and nearer to the true position
that they are opportunities for culture. This is emphasized further by the
fact that the growth of the experimental department is steady and strong,
that a goodly percentage of students enroll for both elementary courses in
the second semester, although only one is required, and that a very marked
increase is shown in the enrolment for the most advanced courses."

The report of Mr. Edward Miller, as Professor of Pedagogy,
shows an increase in the number of students electing courses in ped-
agogy, and makes it probable that it will soon seem best that he
should give his entire teaching time to this department. Professor
Miller has taken, during the past year, a large part of the re-
sponsibility of the correspondence regarding teaching positions for
recent graduates. And he will work the present year in close
connection with the Secretary to the President in the same line.
The Professor of Pedagogy has also been successful in bringing a
number of the Faculty before various Teachers' Associations, and
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schools of the county. The result is seen in a feeling of greater
cordiality between the College and the neighboring schools.

Professor George Frederick Wright taught courses in the
second semester in Quaternary Geology, in Christian Evidences, in
Comparative Religion, and in Inductive Reasoning. Professor
Wright delivered the L. P. Stone lectures for 1904-05 before
Princeton Theological Seminary, on "The Historical Character
of the Old Testament." He also presented four papers at the Con-
vention and Conference of the American Bible League, on "Sd-
entific Criticism, Falsely So-Called", "The Inductive Principles
in Biblical Knowledge", "Geological Confirmation of the Biblical
History of Israel from Abraham to the Exodus", and "The Con-
tribution of Geology to the Credibility of the Flood" ; a paper on
"The Physical Conditions in North America during Man*s Early
Occupancy" was read at the Archaeological Institute of America,
meeting in Boston December 28-30. And he has also prepared
numerous articles for the press, including articles for the Bible
Student, and Teacher and The American Geologist, as well as the
Bibliotheca Sacra,

The President's own teaching in Philosophy in the College
and in Theology in the Seminary, has continued essentially 2%
last year.

The Slavic Department

The report of the Slavic Department, though it stands in
somewhat different relation to the College than any other, because
the Trustees have never assumed financial responsibility for it,
may properly find a place at the close of this review of reports of
heads of departments. Professor Miskovsky notes that the year
just closed was a critical one in the history of the department,
since through the death of Superintendent Schauffler the depart-
ment has lost its recnu'ting officer and chief financial agent. This
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has been obliged to give considerable time to thd raising of funds,
in addition to his ordinary work of teaching and administration.
He spoke in twelve Congregational churches, and succeeded in
thus making a substantial contribution toward the expenditures of
the department. The most encouraging element, as Professor Mis-
kovsky notes, in the situation, is "the fact that the Congregational
Education Society has taken up the support of the department ten-
tatively, to the extent of voting it $i,6cx) for the current year."
This amount, however, will not provide for the real needs of the
department, but will rather inevitably cripple its efficiency. Thus,
for instance, as Profc;ssor Miskovsky remarks, "the Committee are
holding off three promising young men this year (a Pole, a Bo-
hemian, and a Bulgarian) merely because of the lack of funds to
support them. This is poor economy, as it costs just as much to
maintain the teaching force for the students now on the ground
as it would for the other additional three, and ten more, for that
matter. The great need of the department continues to be en-
dowment, or adequate financial support through other channels**
The importance of the work done by this department should make
this plea of Professor Miskovsky a strong one.

Another year the President will ask for reports from all the
teachers in all departments, not necessarily for publication, but to
make it sure that every teacher has the opportunity to make, di-
rectly to the President, any suggestions which he may care to
make. And it is quite possible that it may be wise to ask some
further chairmen of important committees to report on the main
elements in their work. There are so many sides to the college
life, that even the most careful effort to get a comprehensive state-
ment is attended with considerable difficulty. The report as now
presented, however, does include, in one form or another, reports
from the Prudential Committee, the Budget Committee, and the
Committees on Admission, Discipline, Honorary Degrees, Relig-
ious Work, Failure in Scholarship, and Beneficiary Aid.

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Instruction Units

The discussion of instruction units in the Secretary's report
shows that the size of classes is kept reasonably small in all cases
where the lecture method is not expressly adopted. It should be
borne in mind, as to the table of increases and decreases in certain
departments, that the figures are necessarily affected somewhat
from year to year by absences and changes of teachers; and where
the gain in percentage is greatest, it does not necessarily mean that
the classes in those cases are abnormally large, so much as that
there was a time when, for some reason or another, the attend-
ance was abnormally small. Astronomy, for example, leads the
list of subjects in the proportion of increase, but the figures do
not show that an abnormally large number of students are pursu-
ing that subject. It should also be borne in mind that — as these
tables plainly show — under the free working of the elective system,
it is not quite possible for the College to grow in different depart-
ments just as it would. It is obliged to meet the demand for in-
struction along certain lines. The Secretary points out, for ex-
ample, that the Department of German leads all the other de-
partments in the amount of instruction offered. This is not be-
cause the Faculty believe that this is necessarily the ideal arrange-
ment. They would probably distinctly prefer to push forward
instruction in some other department, rather than to so largely
increase instruction in the German. But they have not been able
to meet the actual demand of the students for work in German^
without increasing the teaching force in that department.

Methods
So far as instruction is concerned, the work of the Faculty
for the year past probably does not greatly differ from that for the
year immediately preceding. The adoption of a definite week for
examination at the close of the semesters, already referred to, is
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noted that every teacher is left free to make such use as he deems
^wisest of the period so set aside. In general, the methods that
mean most to the Faculty no doubt grow pretty directly out of our
unusually democratic policy, and the frequent meetings for confer-
ence, with the mutual stimulus and the constant bringing in of
fresh ideas, which these meetings imply. It is hardly possible for
the Faculty to get into mere routine methods under this plan.

V. ALUMNI

Oberlin does not mean to forget that in a very real sense the
alumni, more truly than any other bo4y, constitute the College;
and it wishes to make constantly more and more of the closeness
and value of the relations in which the College stands to its grad-
uates.

Necrology

The Obituary Record of the alumni of Oberlin College for
the year 1904-05 was carefully prepared by Mr. Luther D. Hark-
ness, and published, as last year, as an extra bulletin of the Col-
lege. It contains concise sketches of forty-eight alumni who have
died during the college year; that is, the list does not contain, it
should be noted, those who have died since the last Commence-
ment. The number of deaths is one more than that reported last
year. The classes represented in the list range from 1838 to 1900,
and the ages at death from thirty-one years to ninety-two years.
Fourteen of those whose deaths are here recorded reached the age
of seventy years or over, and ten the age of eighty years or over.
Only five of the list are under the age of forty years. Rev. Elisha
Sherwood, of St. Joseph, Missouri, of the Theological Class of
1836, remained, at* the time of the issuing of this report, as for
some years, the senior alumnus. Dr. Sherwood died, however, on
August 19, at the age of ninety-five years. The oldest afumnus
now living is probably Dr. Sherwood's classmate. Rev. Samuel
Fuller Porter, of Oberlin, who is the only surviving alumnus of

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any department graduating before 1839. The full list of names
follows :

Class Age

1878 Allen, Charles Whitfield 50
1845 Blackwood, Prudence Jane Everett 88
1883 Boyd, Willard Parsons 40

1847 Bryant, Lucy Dale Fuller 84
1867 Childs, Joshua J. 70
1839 Cochran, Samuel Davles 92
1850 Conklin, Charles 78
1877 Coon, Adelbert Benjamin 47
1 86a Cory, Emily Gates 68
1867 Crony n, Sarah ^ella Reid 62
1867 Daniels, Caroline Helen 65

1866 Dean, Charles Frederick 58
x88i Deane, Frances Melvin Clarke 44
1842 Fairfield, Edmund Burke 83
1896 Freece, Botilda Kathrina 31
1892 Gadsby, George 52
18S0 Graham, William Mc Lean 49
1855 Hall, Sarah Melinda 69
1838 Hodge, Nelson Wellington 91
1850 Holton^ Rebecca Bebout 8x

1867 Hulburt, Lovilla Eliza 66

1848 Jones, Martha Ann 83
1 86 1 Jordan, Emily Frances Hyde 69
1855 Judson, Sylvanus Mills 88
1848 Kellogg, George Martin 76
1864 Kelly, Celeste Cornelia 65
1863 Kent, Jerusha Pettibone 67
1900 Kilbon, Marshall Edwards 31
1890 Kimball, Homer Nash 37
1889 Laundon, I^nora 39
1882 Lyman, Horace Sumner . 49
i860 Mason, Ellen Jane 67
<862 Matson, Henrietta 66
1894 May, Edwin Melbourne 34

1879 Nash, George Kilbon 62
1845 Newberry, James 86

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1874 Patersottf Margaret Bingham Flack 51

1877 Potter, Ella Jane Gilchrist 54

1878 Pringle, Thomas JeflFersoq 65
1865 Randolph, Harriet Robinson 65
1862 Shipherd, Jacob Rudd 69

1875 Spring, Willis Parsons 52
1855 Stone, Louis Anson 79

1876 Strong, Deloss Adelbert 63
1880 Trtpp, Myra Cclia Fellows 49
1867 Winsor, Richard 67
1865 Wright, Albert Allen ' 59
1843 fV right, Susan Deane Allen 84

The list contains notable names, among which it may not be
invidious to mention Samuel D. Cochran, as an unusual thinker,
Edmund Burke Fairfield, a distinguished educator and publicist,
Ex-Governor George K. Nash, Professor Albert Allen Wright,
Rev. Richard Winsor, of India, who was gazetted by the Gov-
ernment of India January 2, 1905, for the distinguished honor of
a Kaiser-i-Hind medal, for "labors strenuously directed towards
raising the material welfare of the people around him in addition
to his spiritual functions" ; and among the younger men, Mr. Ho-
mer Nash Kimball, for the unusual extent of his public services.
As one reviews the list, many other names crowd forward as de-
serving mention, and the College has endeavored to do something
like justice to their memory in the careful, though brief, sketches
of the Necrology Bulletin.

Quinquennial Record
During the year just closed, the Quinquinnial Catalogue of
the College has also been issued, showing that the total number
of graduates of all departments and courses has amounted to
4,083. Of these, 3,179 are still living — 1,637 ^^^ and 1,542 wo-
men. 3,014 are resident in the United States — Ohio of course
leading in the number of resident alumni, followed by Illinois,
New York, and California in order.

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Living Endowment Union
The increase in the membership in the Living Endowment
Union, as brought out in the report of the Assistant to the Presi-
dent, already referred to, is very gratifying to the President. The
very best endowment that any institution can have is the living
endowment of its natural constituency — its graduates and close
friends; and it may be hoped that the number of those accepting
membership in the Union may still increase very considerably,
without adding a heavy burden to any. It is even more important
that the College should have a large number of interested friends,
than that it should have a few very large gifts. May the President
be allowed to call attention, also, once more, to the very large ser-
vice that it may be possible for the alumni to render the College,
through putting the Trustees or the Faculty in touch with others
who may be able to give much larger sums than the alumni who
have first won their interest? Just as the College has always de-
pended— and not in vain — upon its alumni and students for its
natural growth in numbers, so must it also mainly depend upon
them for its most hopeful growth even on the financial side.

Closer Relations

The President believes that the alumni will clearly recognize
that the past year has seen extended progress made in the direc-
tion of bringing about the closer relations between the College and
the alumni, to which reference was made in last year's report. The
very successful publication of the Alumni Magazine, which has
been sent quite broadly to very many of the alumni, and which
now numbers a fair proportion of them among its subscribers; the
definite launching, during the summer, of the Oberlin Alumni
Magazine Publishing Company; besides the sending out to the
alumni during the year of the Annual Report, Catalogue, and
Quinquennial Record, have all helped, it may be hoped, to this
end. And the President trusts that increasingly the literature

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sent to alumni may be at least glanced over and used, where that
IS wisely possible, to help the interest of some other.

The rather unusual extent to which the Presi-
dent and his Assistant have been able to meet with the
alumni in various ways during the year, should have done some-
thing to insure still further the interest of the College in its indi-
vidual alumni, as well as the interest of these individuals in the
College. And both these officers wish to recognize, with the most
hearty gratitude, the exceedingly kind and helpful reception that
has been given to them in their work by the alumni scattered all
over the country. It is hard for the President to believe that any
College can have a more loyal body of graduates than Oberlin.
One of the most impressive things which stands out, in running
over the summary list of professorships and buildings which is
prefixed to the Quinquennial Catalogue, is the very large amount
which, throughout the history of the College, has been contributed
by its alumni and former students. The College hopes not to
abuse the confidence. so shown. And a Committee has recently
been appointed to supervise a little more fully than has recently
been done, all appeals from any part of the College to the alumni,
to protect them from an unreasonable multiplicity of such demands.
It is certainly the desire of the Faculty and of the administrative
officers not to irritate our generous friends by a multitude of de-
mands, but to recognize, rather, their own generosity by asking
only what their own desire would gladly prompt. Let the Presi-
dent remind the alumni, also, that the College hopes to be able to be
of some assistance, especially to younger alumni, in finding their best
places of service, through the work of its Bureau of Appointments,
which will be in immediate charge of the Secretary to the Presi-
dent. The President hopes that wherever a word from a mem-
ber of the Faculty would be of help to an alumnus, he will not hes-
itate to ask for that word.

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mencement was becoming an occasion of increasing interest. The
general program of the last Commencement was certainly one of
unusual interest — the enthusiastic reunion of the Class of 1885
contributing not a little to this as to other occasions in connection
with Commencement.

The President desires to call attention again to the great de-
sirabih'ty of issuing an Alumni Record (that should contain a
completer record of the facts concerning the graduates of the Col-
lege than the Quinquennial can give), in connection with the sev-
enty-fifth anniversary of the College, succeeding and supplanting
in this way the Semi-Centennial Register, prepared in connection
with the fiftieth anniversary of the College. If at the same time
a complete catalogue of all the students who have ever matricu-
lated in connection with the College Department could be pub-
lished, I believe it would not only be of interest to many, but in
the end would prove to have been an enterprise profiting the Col-
lege in more ways than one.

VI. ADVISORY COMMITTEES

The entire list of the Advisory Committees is again published,
with the list of Trustees and Trustee Committees, at the beginning;
of the annual reports, as an important part of the record of the
year. Plans are on foot that it is hoped will enable these com-
mittees to render, without undue irksomeness, still larger service
than they have already rendered. The main recommendation of
the Committee on Economics, Political Science, and Sociology, has
already been given in connection with Professor Bogart's report
for that department. The committee on biological science makes
some important suggestions that will be placed before the heads
of the departments concerned. The committees on the Academy
and on the Library have already made extended suggestions that
are now working out. Some of the other committees will have defi-
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gotten that the whole idea in the formation of these committees is
to make it possible for the alumni of the College to come into
counsel with Trustees and Faculty in improving, in any possible
way, the work of the College, and occasionally, perhaps, in helping
to the resources by which such improvements may be carried out.
The committees have been for so short a time, comparatively, in
existence, that it seems wise to continue their membership for the
present unchanged ; and the President therefore recommends that
the members of the several committees whose terms regularly ex-
pire January i, 1906, be continued for another term of three years.
The vacancy in the chairmanship of the Committee on History,
caused by the resignation of Mr. Paul D. Cravath of the Board
of Trustees, should be filled at this meeting of the Board.

VII. STUDENTS

Attendance
The Secretary's report shows general* gains in all depart-
ments except the Academy, where the attendance has nearly held
its own, gains in the number of graduates, and gains in the num-
ber of students coming from other colleges to Oberlin to complete
their course. The last year's report showed an increase of al-
most exactly one hundred over the year before — reaching for
the year a total of 1^715. The attendance of the preceding year
was the largest so far in the history of the College, so that last
year's attendance registered a very notable advance. The re-
ports for the beginning of the current year show a still further in-
crease. The College Department has already, for the Fall term,
reached an enrolment of nearly seven hundred (696), all of full
college rank. This steady gain in attendance naturally raises the
question whether the time has come when we should call a halt?
The fact, of course, that this total of 1,715 is not in a single de-
partment, but scattered among four departments, makes a differ-
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volved, and that they are under separate supervision. It would
not seem impossible for three or four hundred men or women to be
personally known and wisely supervised by a single official. We
perhaps need not, therefore, be disturbed about the increase that
has already occurred.

Breadth of Constituency

The proportion of students coming from outside Ohio, it
will be noted from the Secretary's report, has remained
steadily almost exactly one-half, and the attendance from
outside the State of Ohio is as hitherto, from almost all the states
and territories of the Union, and from a considerable number of
foreign countries. It is interesting, also, to see the number of col-
leges that are sending students to Oberlin for advanced standing.
The Secretary's comparison of Oberlin with the five other col-
leges constituting the athletic so-called "Big Six" of Ohio, shows
that Oberlin brings into Ohio from outside the State considerably
more than the other five colleges put together.

Proportion of Women

It is probably not necessary to add here anything to what has
already been said in commenting on the report of the Trustee
Committee on this question. I may simply summarize the various
suggestions that have been made from different quarters of means
that might help to increase the proportionate number of men : — the
introduction of at least the more important part of the shop work
of the first two years of the technical course; courses in higher com-
mercial education; the introduction of the Teachers' Course in
Physical Training for Men; pre-professional courses; the virtual
establishment of a technical school ; increasing the electives offered
along the lines of economics, sociology, political science and his-
tory; some changes in the Conservatory that would tend to draw
more men into it; gradual increase in the enrolment in the Sem-

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inary; the completion of the Men's Gymnasium, and further em-
phasis on outdoor sports; and the erection of a large and many-
sided men's building, in which all the men's interests might be
centered under the Y. M. C. A. Changes in some of these direc-
tions are already hopefully under way, and others will doubtless
follow in good time. The persistent natural causes for the larger
number of women, to which the President referred in his last re-
port, continue, and it is somewhat doubtful whether they can be
altogether overcome. Quite aside from the question of the pro-
portion of women, the report of the Dean of College and Grad-
uate Women seems to make it clear that we shall be practically
forced to make some restriction in the number of women received,
from simple lack of proper accommodations.

Age of Graduates

The Secretary has made an interesting study of this ques-
tion, as concerns the Class of 1905, taken as a typical class. This
class numbered one hundred and thirteen — fifty-three men and
sixty women. The Secretary's figures as given to me show that, set-
ling aside nine students — four men and five women, who are far
above the normal age — the average of the men remaining is 23.62
years; the average age of the women, 23.08 years. The average,
that is, of one hundred and four men and women in 1905 was
23.33 years. The average of the whole one hundred and thirteen
was 24.05 years. There is no reason to suppose that 1905 was an
exceptional class in either direction. These figures may therefore
be taken, probably, as about the average now from year to year.
They will mean different things to different people. The Presi-
dent happens to have at hand the figures for the class that gradu-
ated twenty-six years before the Class of 1905. The average age
of the graduates of the Classical Course of that year was, 24.42
years. Since that time the preparation for College has been ex-
tended virtually a year; so that so far as the comparison of these

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two classes is concerned, it would not indicate that the age at grad-
uation was especially increasing. So far as this comparison goes,
it confirms similar much more extensive figures taken at Amherst
College.

Health

The general health of the students during the year 1904-05
has been, on the whole, notably good. There have been few
cases of serious illness, and no deaths. This is a really remark-
able record, in view of the large number of students in attendance.
But it should not shut our eyes to the pressing need, neverthe-
less, of some provision fqr a college hospital. Even in compara-
tively slight illnesses, the help of such a building, not only in the
comfort of the patient, but also in the comfort of a number of oth-
ers involved, and in the gain in promptness with which the student
could get back to assured health and to the best quality of work,
would be very great.

Athletics

For a definite report upon athletics from the point of view
of the Graduate Manager, reference may be made at once to the
Secretary's report. No special changes have taken place in our
situation in athletics since last year. But the reports of the Di-
rectors of the Men's and Women's Gymnasiums show that a larger
and very encouraging number are engaged in outdoor sports,
and they give evidence, too, that there will be still further atten-
tion paid to this point. So far as reasonable sanity on this subject
is concerned, it may be rather favorable than otherwise that Obcr-
lin has not had a strongly winning football team in the last two
years. In any case, I think we are all here agreed that it is far
more important that we should have a deserved reputation for ab- ^
solutely clean playing, than that we should continuously win. I
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intention to have only the highest standards prevail. There is to
be no buying up of men by either alumni or students, and no
coaching either in the direction of brutality or of unfair playing.
No doubt it is difficult for any institution to maintain the best
standards without cooperation. But we have reason to believe
that there is in Ohio increasing cooperation in this direction ; and
there is some reason to hope for still greater gains in the elimina-
tion of unnecessary dangers and violence from the game from
President Roosevelt's action in the matter, and from many other
influences acting in the same direction. In the long run, it ought
to be manifest, to even those most enthusiastic over athletics, that
no gain can finally come to a college that makes athletics the dom-
inant interest and concern in the college.

Discipline

The reports from the Deans of Men and Women, and from
the Principal of the Academy, indicate that little formal disci-
pline has been required during the year, and they imply, as well,
the steady formation of closer personal relations between students
and officers, and a consequently diminishing amount of discipline
at arm's length. The Deans of Women, during the year, have
achieved much in this direction by personally visiting the young
women at the different houses through the town, and gathering
them together for personal conference there. And a similar re-
sult has been sought, in a little different way, by the Dean of
Men and by the President. The spirit of the students in their re-
lations to the administrative officers I have never known to be bet-
ter, during my connection wnth the College. Some steps were tak-
en last year toward a Student Senate, and more will no doubt
be done in the same direction the present year. But in any case,
one cannot fail to see a general readiness on the part of the stu-
dents to cooperate with the Faculty in promoting the interests of
the College. There has been a gratifying taking of responsi-

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bilky here, in an entirely informal way, by the upper classes, and
by the two Christian Associations. The President believes that
Oberlin must not fail to aim at college ideals above the average,,
bringing more and more fully into existence a community genuine-
ly democratic in the highest sense, and certainly never excusing in
the college man what would be condemned in another. He be-
lieves that it is vain to talk about religious education while colleges
plainly refuse to bring the various sides of the college life itself
under truly Christian ideals. Neither prayer-meetings nor mission
study will make good dissipation, rowdyism, deception, or bru-
tality.

Scholarship

In the matter of scholarship, it is believed that the Advisory
Officer, with his coadjutors in the Faculty, may help much. The
graduate students, also, if they are of a high order, have it in
their power to make here a large contribution. But the standard
must evidently be set mainly by the teachers themselves. The
Committee on Failure in Scholarship aims to help especially those
in the lower range of scholarship, and the following statistical re-
port may not be without its value here. Students that show per-
sistently that they will not attend to work are simply dropped :

November, 1 004.

Number of personal interviews, 34. Number of students thus inter-
viewed who passed in all of
their work at close of semes-
ter 13

Number of students who failed

in examination 7

(5 made up.)
Number of students who failed
in term average, or left work

unfinished 5

Number of such students who
dropped part of their work. 9
(3 passed work retained.) —
34

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Number notes of warning sent, la. Number of students thus warned

who passed in all their work 3

Number such students who
failed in examination at close
of semester 2

Number such students who
failed in term average at
close of semester 7

12
Number of students cut down in their work to less than fifteen hours
in second semester, 5.

May, tgos.
Number of personal interviews, a6 Number of students thus inter-
viewed who passed in all of
their work at close of semes-
ter 14

Number such students who

failed in examination 6

(i made up.)
Number such students who
failed in term average, or left
work unfinished 6

Graduate Scholarships
The list of students holding graduate scholarships for the
year upon which we have just entered is as follows:

Ernest Barrett Chamberlain> A.B., 1905, English.
Martha Ada Fisher, A.B., 1904, Biology, Zoology, Botany.
Herbert Harold Goodenough, A.B., 1905, Economics and History.
Jonathan Melvin Kurtz, A.B., 1905, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and
Geology.

Walter Wyatt McKay, A.B., 1905, Pedagogy and Physical Training.
Carrie Lenore Rose, A.B., 1905, Mathematics and Physics.

The graduate scholars in most cases, in addition to their study,
are rendering some valuable assistance to the heads of the depart-
ments in which they are studying.

Social Life
There is undoubtedly more social life in the whole College

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than previously — of men with men, of women with women, and
of both men and women — and for the most part, of a kind more
likely to help the student in his later life. Additional pains have
been taken in this direction in the last few years. And the stu-
dents themselves are managing successfully considerable social func-
tions. ' This increase of the social life of the student has not been
detrimental, in the judgment of the President, to the other sides
of the college life. It has been confined chiefly to Saturday even-
ings, has not been given an undue amount of time, and has not cut
in largely on the scholarly work of the student. The hours for
the social functions have been reasonably limited and health has
been guarded. There was need of some real increase of social life
for the student, and the increase, therefore, certainly need not be
regretted.

Religious Life

There are many things in the recent life of the American peo-
ple, which indicate that the people are waking up on every side to
the importance of moral and religious education. Repeated con-
ferences upon this point, in connection with different educational
bodies, have been held in the last two or three years; and we have
good reason to hope that much more will be accomplished in this
direction than has been the case in the years just passed. Oberlin
will need to be wide awake herself, if she is not to be surpassed
in this part of her work by other colleges. In recent years there
has certainly been a great increase in student responsibility for the
religious life of the College, and this is an occasion for genuine re-
joicing, if it does not mean less and less care and responsibility here
by the Faculty. It should not be forgotten that the College can-
not wisely give over all this kind of work to mere student direc-
tion, any more than it can wisely surrender other lines of thought
and work; but it is hoped that we are, in considerable measure at
least, avoiding this danger. A large and representative Commit-

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tee on Religious Work, under the chairmanship of Dean Bos-
worth, is in close cooperation with representaive committees from
the student body. The Christian Associations, also, have Advisory
Boards from the Faculty and alumni, and with these Boards there
is constant conference, and, in the case of the women, the Board
has been especially active. Some Association courses are also
almost always taught by members of the Faculty. The work that
the College is doing, too, through its own Bible courses and
through the required work in the senior class, is to be noted.
The secretaries of the two Associations have also kept in close
and sympathetic conference with the college officers; and the
President is himself justified in continuing his large Sunday Bible
Class only because of the conviction that it has a vital contri-
bution to make to the entire higher life of the College. The work
of the secretaries of the Associations last year certainly fully jus-
tified itself, in spite of the fact that Mr. Sprunger's very serious
illness compelled his retirement from the secretaryship of the Y.
M. C. A. Mr. Sprunger's work was efficiently taken up by Mr.
Robert L. Ewing. And the secretarj'ship of the Young Women's
Association was successfully carried by Miss Georgia Carrothers,
Professor Bosworth's statement of the work of the two Asso-
ciations well suggests the important work they are doing:

"Several da>'s before the opening of the college year about sixty
officers and committee men of the College Y. M. C. A. met in Oberlin
and spent two days planning the work of the Association for the coming
year. This is indicative of the change that has taken place in the re-
ligious activity of the College. What used to be done by the Faculty
along religious lines is now done more thoroughly and systematically by
the students themselves. Students are developed by assuming responsibil-
ity and are prepared for religious work after college days are over. An
alumnus of only a few years ago can have no idea of the advance made
in this direction. Both the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. now have paid
secretaries giving their whole time to the work of the Association. The
present Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. is R. O. Bartholomew '05,

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Miss Jean James is the newly appointed Secretary of the Y. W. C A.
She is a graduate of Vassar, and comes to Oberlin from the student secre-
taryship of the State Normal Sdiool located at Albany, New Yoric. Large
and efficient committees are at work in both organizations. These com-
mittees among the young men carry on thirteen different kinds of work
and include seventy-five men in their membership. Letters are sent to
new students who are known to be planning to come to Oberlin, offering
to help them get started in Oberlin and to find them employment if they
need work. They are met at the trains, and boarding places are found
for them. Eighty men were helped to permanent employment by the
Y. M. C. A. last year, and twenty-five men to odd jobs. The cash value
of the work secured was $3550. In this way the Associations gain a
strong hold upon the students. This year more than six hundred girls
attended the reception given by the Y. W. C. A. to the new girls on the
lawn between Talcott and Baldwin. In the evening of the same day,
four hundred and fifty men were present at the bonfire reception given by
the Y. M. C. A. to the new students near Dill Field. Voluntary Bible
study is carried on by the Associations. In the Men's Association last
year eighteen Bible classes were formed for daily Bible study. More than
one hundred and eighty men and women were enrolled in mission study
classes. That there is vitality in all this, is evidenced by the fact that some
seventy men began the Christian life last year. As I look over more
than twenty-five years* connection with Oberlin I do not remember a time
when the religious life of the College has been more wholesomely vigor-
ous than in the present student generation. It is a thing of the open air,
healthy, normal, and reverent."

The very brief statistical summary of the young men's work
for the year 1904-05 may also be given as illustrative.

406 members.
75 men serving on committees.

35 delegates to the Summer Conference at Lakeside, Ohio.
27 men in the Volunteer Band for Foreign Missions.

3 general receptions for men.

6 Sunday-schools maintained outside of the college community.

36 weekly religious meetings.

3 special evangelistic services.
17 classes in Bible study meeting weekly.
8 mission study classes meeting weekly.

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65 boys of the town in clubs supervised by the Association.

78 men helped to employment. Bible Study Conference. Boarding

house register. General Secretary devoting his entire time to

the work.

The President has elsewhere expressed his own judgment oi
the work of the young men's Association, and he could say the
same things for the young women :

"I am glad to say that I never believed more in the College Young
Men's Christian Association than to-day. I have been especially impressed
and greatly gratified with the statesmanlike way in which the officers and
committees of the Association are surveying the entire field of college life,
and preparing themselves to meet effectively the various needs as they
appear. I do not know what can be more encouraging to a college execu-
tive than to know that such a body of young men are voluntarily enlisting
to make the college life as wholesome and significant and satisfactory
as possible. I could not easily over-state the satisfaction that I find in this
simple fact The Association is making a contribution to the entire col-
lege life that it would be difficult indeed to replace by any agency or com-
bination of agencies.'*

VIII. RELATIONS TO OTHER EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS

Secondary Schools

The work of the Secretary and of the Faculty Committee
on Secondary Schools, in bringing the G>llege and the secondary
schools into closer and more cordial relations, has been continued
as last year, and has been noted in reports already discussed. There
is no reason why this work should not go forward with increasing
success, especially so far as it relates to schools in the immediate
vicinity of the College.

Other Colleges

Attention has already been called to the interesting extent to
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classes. The cordiality of the cooperation among all the colleges
and universities of the North Central Association continues, and
cannot fail to mean much for the educational interests of all the
states involved. The President and Dean Bosworth have spoken
before the students of a considerable number of colleges and uni-
versities, and several members of the Faculty, including Dr. Fitch,
Professor St. John, and Professor Miller, have taken part in var-
ious educational gatherings. The so-called Conference of Col-
leges of the Interior has continued its sessions with profit; but as
this Conference is organized almost wholly along denominational
lines, that have no special significance in the college work, it is
hoped that this may be replaced by a more catholic association of
all the colleges that are admitted to membership in the North Cen-
tral Association, as a large step toward the national organization
of colleges, which was proposed at the special conference held
three years ago at Northwestern University. The President was
made a member of a committee of three appointed at that time to
plan for such a national organization. At the request of the chair-
man of that committee, who has now become a state university
president, he has taken up this question of the formation of a col-
lege association, at least for the North Central States. The re-
sponses from presidents of the colleges concerned, seem to make it
clear that such a conference can be speedily and successfully or-
ganized, without the slightest thought of any opposition to the
universities. The plan would be simply to get the presidents, and
perhaps the deans, of institutions that are primarily colleges to-
gether, to consider their common problems, just as the presidents
of the state universities now gather to consider their problems.
There has been an evident reaction toward the greater apprecia-
tion of the work and value of the American college, and yet there
are plain difficulties and problems quite sufficient to make it desir-
able for at least the presidents of the colleges to get together for
conference. Oberlin has also been represented at college and uni-

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versity functions of various kinds, installation ceremonies, dedica-
tions of conspicuous buildings, and celebrations of founders* days.

Professional and Technical Schools

The study and discussion of the relation of the colleges to
these schools have continued, but it can hardly be said that there
has been much further definite progress made, especially as re-
lates to professional schools, though there seems Reason to believe
that a reasonable adjustment may still be worked out, especially
with some of the best of the western universities. The professional
schools cannot afford completely to ignore the desires and requests
of their best feeders.

IX. OUTSIDE INFLUENCE

College Publications

The list of publications made directly by the College is given
in the report of the Secretary. One cannot go carefully over these
publications without noting the evident improvement made in their
form within recent years. The Catalogue, under the careful su-
pervision of the Secretary, is certainly much more satisfactorily
printed, and there were some valuable features added, also, to the
Quinquennial Catalogue, especially in the addition of the histoi-
ical summary and of the full list of professorships and buildings.
The issue of the Directory last year was so plain a convenience,
both to students and to Faculty, that it has been issued as a matter
of course the present year. The Directory practically pays for it-
self. And the College Calendar for last year had also a very en-
thusiastic reception, and there seems to be good reason to expect it
to be even more satisfactory' the present year. Mention might also
be made here of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian
Association Handbook, and of the printed reports which the As-
sociations now issue each year. The success of the students' pa-

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per, the Review, does not seem to have been affected by the publi-
cation of the Alumni Magazine. It certainly ought to be possible
to make both thoroughly self-sustaining, with student and alumni
bodies of such size as Obcrlin has.

The main publications of the Faculty have been nearly all
referred to in other portions of the report. They include five vol-
umes: John Henry Barrows, a Memoir, by his daughter, Mary
Eleanor Barrows, issued early last year; The Study of the History
of Music, by Professor Edward Dickinson ; A Text-book of Har-
mony, by Mr. A. E. Hcacox and Mr. F. J. Lehmann; Professor
Jewett's enlarged edition of his Laboratory Exercises; and the
President's volume entitled Rational Living. Besides these vol-
umes, reference should be especially made to the completion by
Professor Swing of the manuscript of his Life of President Fair--
child; to Dr. Leonard's articles on "The History of Physical Ed-
ucation," in the American Physical Education Review, and in
Mind and Body; to Professor Wager's literary reviews; to Mr.
Bates's article in the International Journal of Ethics, on "The Op-
timism of Thomas Hardy ; to Professor Cole's assistance in the re-
vision of Lodge's Latin Composition; to Dr. Hanna's articles in
The Evangel and the American Physical Education Review; and
to the articles already mentioned of Professors Currier, Fullerton
and Wright. Mention should also be made of the new edition of
P. Tchaikovsky's "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom," with Pro-
fessor Wright's Engh'sh translation and adaptation to the music.
This has been pubhshed by P. Jurgenson of Moscow. And in
this connection it should not be forgotten that a number of mu-
sical contributions have been made by members of the Conserva-
tory Faculty.

Lectures and Concerts

In addition to the list of Artist Recitals contained in the re-
port of the Director of the Conservatory of Music, and the recitals

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given by members of the graduating class of the Conservatory, the
following lectures and entertainments have been given during the
year under the auspices of the College or of the various organiza-
tions connected with it:

October 4 — Members of the Conservatory Faculty. Concert.
October 11 — ^Jacob Riis. **Theodore Roosevelt, the Man."
October 21— Rev. Charles Wagner. "The Simple Life.""
November 1 — Mr. Josef Hofmann. Piano Recital.
November 9 — Mr. Alexander Guilmant Organ Recital.
November 15 — ^Rev. Charles £. Jefferson, D.D. "Emerson and Carlyle."
November 21 — ^The Pittsburgh Orchestra. Orchestra Concert.
November 30— Miss Ella Russell. Vocal Recital.
December 6 — Mr. Bliss Perry. **Literary Fashions."
December 15 and z6 — ^The Oberlin Musical Union. Oratorio, The
Messiah, Handel.

January xo— Members of the Conservatory Faculty. Concert.
January xx — ^The Kneisel String Quartet. Quartet Concert.
January ly — ^President Carroll D. Wright. "Is there any Solution of
the Labor Problem?"

January 3X — Mr. Jose Vianna Da Motta. Piano Recital.
February 2— Mr. John Z. White. "The Single Tax."
February 7 — Mr. George Devoll and Mr. Edwin Isham. Vocal Recital.
February 8— M. Frantz Funck-Brentano. "The Bastille and Its Se-
crets." French Lecture.

February z6 — ^The Cincinnati Orchestra. Orchestra Concert. Matinee.
February 21-^Home Oratorical Contest.

February 22 — Rabbi Moses Cries. "Washington and Lincoln."
February 28 — Hon. William Jennings Bryan. "The Value of an Ideal."
March 3 — Intercollegiate Debate. Oberlin vs. Ohio Wesleyan Uni*
versity.

March 7 — Mr. Karl Grienauer. Violoncello Recital.
March 10— Mr. Solon Severance. Stcrcopticon Lecture on Japan.
March 14 — ^Rev. Judson Smith, D.D. "The Work of the American
Board."

March 15— Rev. Judson Smith, D.D. "China."
March 15— Rev. Judson Smith, D.D. "The Boxer Revolt."
March 16— Rev. Judson Smith, D.D. "The New China."
March 21— The Oberlin College Glee Club. Concert.

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April 7 — Intercollegiate Debate. Notre Dame vs. Oberlin.

April 8 — Professor Rufus B. Richardson. Illustrated Lecture on
Sicily.

April II — Mr. Hamilton Mabie. "A Great Man of Letters."

April 13 — Mr. H.-H. Powers. "An Ancient Story of Politics and Re-
form."

April 15— Professor M. H. Morgan, Ph.D., LL.D. "The Roman Thea-
ter and the Production of Comedy."

May II — Professor Edward Dickinson. "Musical Appreciation."

May 14 — President Henry Churchill King. Baccalaureate Sermon,
Theological Seminary. "The Elements of Opposition in the Ministry of
Christ."

May 16— The Obcrlin Musical Union. "The Beatitudes." Cesar
Franck.

May 17 — Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Orchestra Concert. Matinee.

May 17 — ^The Oberlin Musical Union. "Tannhauser." Wagner.

May 18 — RcT. Amory H. Bradford, D.D., Commencement Address,
Theological Seminary. "The Inward Light."

May 18 — Rev. Jesse Hill. Address before the Alumni of the Theo-
logical Seminary.

June i4--Ben Greet Woodland Players. "As You Like It."

June 14 — Ben Greet Woodland Players. "Midsummer Night's Dream."

June 25 — President Henry Churchill King. Baccalaureate Sermon.
**The Fundamental Temptations."

June 28 — Mr. James B. Dill. Commencement Address. "Back to
Beginnings."

June 28— The Oberlin Musical Union. "The Odysseus." Bruch.

Outside JVork and Lectures

The work done in this direction by the different members of
the Faculty has been sufficiently indicated by quotations made from
the reports of the officers and teachers. The representation of the
College by its student organizations has been wholly creditable —
the work of the Glee Club in this respect being, of course, par-
ticularly notable.

X. MATRRIAL EQUIPMENT

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of last year, beyond what is clearly given in the report of the
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. The chief changes
' are those occasioned by the Baldwin Cottage fire, the improve-
ment of the Campus, and the removal of the smaller buildings in
the rear of Peters Hall. This last improvement looks to the
gradual clearing of the interior of the eastern part of the square
in which Peters Hall stands.

The Contribution Made by the College to the Toiun

So much is said by a few from time to time of the disadvan-
tage that comes to the town from the large amount of untaxable
property owned by the College, that it may not be amiss to sum-
marize some of the ways in which the College has contrib-
uted directly to the large improvements that have taken place in
the town in recent years: In the first place, in the establishment
of the Water Works and of the sewer system, the College, in 1888,
contributed directly for the Water Works, $5,220, and in 1893, for
the sewer system, $1,500. It has paid toward the sewer system
since 1893 sums amounting to $1,258.45, and for paving since
1897, $4,526.29. The College had previously paid toward the
old stone pavements, $1,875.47. It is paying, for the year 1905
alone, for paving, sums amounting to $979.88. Besides this, it
should be remembered that the College is virtually keeping up, in
the Campus, at no expense to the town, a town park. In this direc-
tion, including the paving tax involved, it expended, during the year
1903-04, $801.16, and during the year 1904-05, $737.93. In ad-
dition to the care of the Campus, during the last year nearly $1,000
has been spent directly upon improvements in the Campus. The
mere care of the Campus costs the College regularly from $350 to
$400 each year. And it should not be forgotten that the College
is making a similar contribution to the community in the keeping
up of Lndies* Grove and the Arboretum. It should also be re-
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College of $175,000 is spent in town; and, moreover that, at a
moderate estimate, the students themselves bring into the town
every year close to a half million dollars. The citizens may well
consider that it would take a good deal of a manufacturing plant
to bring as much money into a town to be spent in it.

Gains
The gains for the year on the material side might be thu^
briefly summarized: a subscription of $125,000 for the Library
Building; $10,000 toward the fund for a new Art Building; $2.-
250 as a beginning of the new fund for library endowment; con-
siderable increases to scholarship funds, and some further increase
of endowment ; and considerable additions to the Library, Museum,
and Herbarium. Besides these material gains it should be no-
ticed that it has been possible, also, to provide additional assistance
in the departments of Philosophy, German, and French.

XI. NEEDS

The main needs brought out by the survey of the year have been
noted in connection with the various divisions of the report, and es-
pecially in connection with the reports of the officers and of the
Faculty. Perhaps the greatest need of all must be steadily count-
ed to be the need of endowment for increase of salaries, which, in
the judgment of the Trustees and friends of the College, are
clearly too low. The President has a definite recommenda-
tion to make at the meeting of the Trustees upon this point.
The next need, and that which the circumstances press upon
us as being the thing: now to be pushed for, is $100,000 for
library endowment to meet Mr. Carnegie's condition; and besides
this, there is the need of some further large sums for immediate
expenditure to bring the Library up to date, in its various depart-
ments. As last year, it is the judgment of the President that in-
crease in endowment is now needed nowhere more than in the
Theological Seminar}', where there has been practically no increase

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in resources for many years. Perhaps no single enlargement of
the teaching force is so desirable as the appointment of an associ-
ate professor in the Department of Economics and Sociology. It
is also quite desirable that there should be a similar enlargement
in the Department of English. For many reasons, enlargement
of our work along technical lines, to make the adjustment to tech-
nical schools more easy, is peculiarly needed. The buildings most
needed, besides the chapel and the library now provided for, are
dormitories for women to meet present imperative demands; an
art building — the lack of which is particularly felt, in view of
the gift of the Olney Collection; a Y. M. C. A. building that
should afford in the broadest way a center for all the men's activ-
ities; a women's gymnasium — the present building being abso-
lutely inadequate to the needs; an administration building; and
some provision of hospital facilities. The pressing need of a bio-
logical science building is somewhat relieved by the prospect of
being able to surrender the present library building to the Depart-
ment of Zoology when the new library building is erected.

Toward the New Half Million Fund there may probably be
now counted as available about $335,cxx). This amount does not
include any sums bearing annuity, and counts out, of course, sub-
scriptions that have been coming in for the Reunion Fund, but
does count known subscriptions and wills not yet included in the
Treasurer's report, and the principal corresponding to the fund
which will come in for the Library annually from the town. The
sum could be quite a little increased if annuities were taken into
account. The Olney Collection is not in any way valued in this
summary. This is an encouraging increase on the sum reported
last year. But it should be recognized on all hands that the Col-
lege surely ought not to ask further extension of time from our
very considerate Boston donor. Every possible effort should be
made to clear up the entire Half Million Fund the present year.
$100,000 of it, by Mr. Carnegie's condition, must go to library cn-

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dowment; and it is never easy, of course, to raise endowment
funds. It will require a good deal of concentrated effort on the
part of Trustees and officers, if the Half Million Fund is com-
pleted by July first next.

The definite recomjmendations of the Council for the present
and ensuing years are necessarily limited by the budget, and will
be presented to the Trustees in connection with the preliminary
report of the Budget Committee.

Respectfully submitted,

HENRY CHURCHILL KING.

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

Xo the President:

Sir — I have the honor to present herewith my seventh annual report
as Secretary of Oberlin College, covering the year 1904-05.

The work of this office has followed the same general lines which
have been indicated in previous reports. The new letter filing cabinet,
purchased during the year 1904, has been found very satisfactory for the
filing of the large number of letters which come to me. The capacity of
the file is sufficient to enable us to keep letters for three or four years with-
out the necessity of transferring them.

During the year some changes have been made in the vault for the
storage of records and papers, and the condition of the vault is much more
satisfactory. For a year or two after the college offices were moved into
the present building the papers were in great danger of spoiling from
mold, but that danger has been removed by improved ventilation.

l*he work of this office is being carried forward as satisfactorily as is
possible in the present unsatisfactory building, but the danger from fire
is very great, and the loss which would result from the destruction of the
office building would be very serious. The card catalogues of Alumni
and similar card catalogues of students past and present, are so bulky that
it is impossible to have them moved into the vault each night. It
will probably not be worth while to develop the catalogue of all students
and perfect it, involving as this does a prodigious amount of labor, until
the fire risk is removed by the erection of the fire-proof administration
building. I hope that the Trustees will not be satisfied with the present^
building for office purposes for more than a year or two longer.

There are two items of new work and two items of deferred work
which we hope to undertake the coming year. The new work includes
the publication of a new illustrated pamphlet to take the place of the one
which has been used very effectively in the general correspondence with
prospective students. Some of the material in the old pamphlet needs to
be entirely rewritten and many of the illustrations can now be replaced
by much more satisfactory views of College buildings and grounds. The
new illustrated pamphlet will be issued under the direction of the Com-
mittee on Outside Representation, and it will probably be ready for distri-
bution by the first of February, 1906.

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There have been frequent calls from good high schools for framed
photographs showing views of the campus and of the College buildings^
and we have purchased photographs for use in ten or fifteen of the most
important schools. These frames, with photographs, will be distributed
under the direction of the Committee on Outside Representation.

The two items of deferred work which I have mentioned are th^
completion of the index of the Trustee records for the first forty years,
and a systematic filing of many old documents of historical value at pres-
ent stored away in inaccessible condition in the vaults in the Secretary's
and Treasurer's offices. Both of these pieces of work are very attractive
to one interested in the history of Oberlin, and it is my hope that within
the coming year I may be able to do much work of value to the College
in these two lines.

The material in this report will be grouped under five main heads,
as follows:

Publications.

Correspondence and Admission of students.

Scholarships and Beneficiary Aid.

Official Records and Statistics.

Athletic Association.

I. PUBLICATIONS
Bulletin of Oberlin College

The most important publication is the Bulletin of Oberlin College, is-
sued every six weeks. It included last year the following numbers:

No. 13. Annual Reports for 1903-04, Nov. 1904.

No. 14. Catalogue for 1904-05, preliminary edition, Jan. 1905.

No. 15. Quinquennial Catalogue for 1905, March, 1905.

No. 17. Catalogue for 1904-05, final edition, June, 1905.

No. 18. Oberlin Academy Calendar, June, 1905.
Four extra numbers were issued as follows:

Catalogue of the Conservatory of Music, Jan. 1905.

Catalogue of Summer School for 1905, April, 1905.

Catalogue of the Conservatory of Music, June, 1905.

Necrology report for 1904-05, June, 1905.
Numbers 13 and 15 were mailed to all alumni.

Quinquennial Catalogue for 190$
In my report of last year I mentioned the plans for the publication of

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the Z905 Quinquennial Catalogue of Alumni. This catalogue was issued
on the 3i8t of March, 1905, and contained four hundred pages. It was
sent to all alumni of the College, and to many colleges, libraries, and
historical societies. The work of collection and arrangement of material
for the Quinquennial Catalogue was attended to in large part by Mr.
Luther D. Harkness, who had rendered a similar service for the cata-
logues of 1895 and 1900. The inquiries preliminary to the publication of
the Z905 catalogue were begun in November, 1904, and it is thought
that the information contained in it was unusually accurate at the time
of its date of issue, March 31st, 1905. It contained the usual lists of trus-
tees, teachers, and graduates of this College. The names of the graduates
were arranged in the body of the catalogue by classes, followed by two
-valuable indexes, — a locality index of living graduates, and an alphabet-
ical index of all graduates.

The new features were an historical summary, a list of professorships,
and a list of college buildings with historical information with reference
to each building. It was hoped that a decided gain would be made by
placing in the hands of the officers and alumni, in a form convenient for
quick reference, the really important facts contained in the new sections.

The following summary shows the total number of graduates, also
the number of living graduates:

Courses

TOTAL NUMBER OF
GRADUATES

The College:
ClaasicaU

Men

Women Total

1537

Phlkeophical 106

Scientific 26

Literary 4

ToUIb 1672

The Theological Semi-
nary:

Classical 610

Enarliah 67

Slavic 19

Totals 696 "

The Conservatory of

Music: 43
The Teachers' Course

IN Physical Training: 0

Honorary Degrees: _ 41

Grand Totals 2462

Excludins Duplicates* 264

Net Totals. 2188

680 2117

180 286

6 30

968 967

1728

3400

8 613

2 69

_0 _^

5 701

118

49
12

1912
17

1895

161
49

4364
_281
4083

UVING GRADUATES

Men Women

1138 620

98 178

26 6

4 ^4

1260 138

Total

271
80

2642

881
63

462

0
_21

1786

_149

1637

3 384

2 66

_0 _18_

6 467

114

1669

1642

167

48
_81
3346
J166
8179

* Includinsr graduates of other collefires who have received advanced dein^es.
' Deducting for those who graduated from more than one department.

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From the above table it will be seen that the alumni of the College
number 4,083, and that of this total 3,179 were living on March 3zst^
1905. The earliest graduates from any department of the College werii
Samuel Fuller Porter and Elisha Barber Sherwood of the theological class
of 1836. Mr. Sherwood has died since the catalogue was issued. The
earliest living graduates from the College department are Sherlock Bristol,
Danforth Bliss Nichols, and Mrs. Sarah Capen Putnam, all of the cUs.5
of 1839.

The following table shows the geographical distribution of Oberlin
graduates:

Ohio 936

Illinois' 286

New York 264

California 135

Michigan 129

Iowa 117

Massachusetts 116

Other New England States 81

Other Atlantic States 182

Southern States 108

Other Central States 412

Other Western States 248

Europe, Asia, Africa 125

Canada and South America 13

3179
Other Publications

The other publications which have been issued during the year have
included the annual calendar and a printed directory of students. The
calendar for 1905 was issued the first of December, 1904, the edition be-
ing 3,500. Of this number probably 1,500 were distributed among the
high schools in Ohio and neighboring states, and three or four hundred
more were sent to important friends of the College. The students and
Faculty purchased the remaining calendars. The net cost to the College
of these calendars did not exceed $125. The calendar for 1906, which i?
now in the hands of the printer, will be the same in general style as the
calendar of 1905, but there will be very decided improvements in the de-
signs of four or five of the pages as well as in the design for the cover.
The edition for 1906 will be increased to 4,000.

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The second annual directory of the students of the College was issued
on the seventh of October, 1905. It contained the names and addresses of
somewhat more than 1,500 students, together with other information con-
cerning the administrative officers and faculty, of service in such a direc-
tory. The sale of the directories to students meets practically all the cost
of the printing of them.

Upon the recommendation of the Faculty Committee on Commence-
ment, the College issued engraved invitations for the Commencement Ex-
ercises. These invitations were sent to trustees, donors and other influen-
tial friends, and to the presidents of a large nunfiber of other colleges and
universities. The responses received from these engraved invitations
showed that the coustesy was appreciated, and the issuing of these invi-
tations will probably become a regular part of the Commencement pro-
gram. In this same line it may be noted that Oberlin Academy has been
issuing engraved invitations to its friends and patrons for several years
with increasingly good results.

During the last few years increased attention has been given to ar-
rangements for the Commencement Exercises. Carefully prepared pro-
grams have been distributed to members of the classes planning to hold
reunions, and special efforts have been made by the College to see that
alumni and friends in attendance at the Commencement Exercises are
adequately entertained while in Oberlin. Mention should be made here
of the very efficient work of Mr. L. D. Harkness in the entertainment of
the visitors at Commencement.

II. CORRESPONDENCE AND ADMISSION OF STUDENTS

The work of correspondence with prospective students, particularly
of those in the College department, grows in volume each year. At the
time of publication of this report I have on file in my office memoranda
concerning four or five hundred young men and young women with whom
I have already had some correspondence concerning enrollment in the fall
of 1906. Within two months letters, admission certificates, and catalogues
will be sent to the most important high schools of Ohio and neighboring
states, the Alumni will be invited to co-operate by forwarding the names
of any prospective students, the students at present enrolled in Oberlin
will be invited to use their personal influence with their acquaintances at
their homes, and the miscellaneous requests which always come to the
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the above scheme for the early winter is large. Late in the winter and
early in the spring the correspondence becomes more definite, looking to-
ward the filing of entrance papers by prospective students and the ex-
act determination of admission credits.

The tables which follow contain information concerning the admission
of students whose entrance credits have been taken up by this office either
by preliminary correspondence or by personal conference.

As a necessary preliminary to the study of the admission credits of
new students for the year 1904-05 I have prepared two introductory ta«
bles giving the enrollment in the College department and a careful analy-
sis of this enrollment.

College Enrollment •

The enrollment in the College Department for the year 1904-05, as
published in the final edition of the catalogue, was as follows:

Men Women ToUl

Graduates X2 4 z6

Seniors 54 58 iiz

Juniors 55 7a 127

Sophomores 69 94 163

Freshmen 85 1x5 200

Specials X9 33 52

294 376 670

Analysis of College Enrollment

The following table shows the number of students who studied in the
College Department in former years, as well as those who entered the Col-
lege Department for the first time:

Per ct. of
Whole
Men Women Total Number

In the College department last year 178 205 383 57.2

In the College department in former years. X4 x2 26 3.9

In the Academy department last year. ... 22 23 45 6.7

In the Academy department in former years x 4 5 .7

In the Conservatory of Music last year. ... 2 3 5 .7

New students never before enrolled 77 X29 206 30.8

294 376 670 Z00.0

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From this table it will be seen that 409 students had been enrolled
previously in the College department, while 261, representing 39 per cenL
of the total enrollment, were new students in that department.

In the above table it is seen that about 6x per cent, of the students re-
turned to the College after previous enrollment. This is a decided gain
over the corresponding figures for the last three years, the corresponding
percentage in 1903-04 being less than 55 per cent., the figure for 1902-0-3
being 60 per cent., the figure for 1901-02 being 58 per cent.

The table shows a decrease in the proportion of students who entered
the College from the Academy department. Last year the Academy con-
tributd 7.4 per cent, of the total enrollment in the College department
The corresponding figures for the three preceding years were 10.9 per
cent., IZ.9 per cent., and 12.8 per cent In connection with this Academy
decrease it should be borne in mind that about twenty students from Ober«
lin High School entered the College department direct Prior to 1904-05,
graduates of Oberlin High School needed an additional year in Oberlin
Academy in order to secure rank in the College department.

Classification of Nrw Students

The 261 new students who were admitted to the College department
were classified as follows:

Men Women Total

Admitted as Post Graduates x 2 3

" " Seniors 4 1 5

" " Juniors 156

" " Sophomores 7 13 20

" " Freshmen 78 109 187

" " Specials 11 29 40

Z02 Z59 26x

In addition to the 187 new Freshmen shown in the preceding table,
there were 13 others whose names were listed in the Freshman class, who
were Freshmen the year before, and failed to advance to the Sophomore
class. The total number of all Freshmen as shown in the catalogue was
2oa

Thirty-four new students were admitted to higher rank than that of
Freshman. This number shows a decrease in comparison with the year
1903-04, but is larger than any other year in the history of the College.

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The large number of students who come to Oberlin College with advanced
classification constitutes one of the most significant developments of the
recent years. A table is added at this point comparing the figures for
1904-05 with those of recent years. No statistics were kept with reference
to advanced classification prior to 1900-01.

Admitted as Post Graduates..

" " Seniors

'* " Juniors

" " Sophomores

" Freshmen

" " Colleare Specials.

1904-05

_20_

187

__40_

261

1903-04

1902-03

1901-02

1900-01

210

168

165

; 150

287

231

207

168

Students Admitted to Advanced Standing

The preceding table shows that there were 34 new students admitted
to higher rank than Freshmen, and in addition to this number there were
8 others (6 College Specials and 2 Freshmen) who came from other col-
leges and are fairly to be considered as of advanced rank. Of this total
of 42 students, 34 came to Oberlin from 28 different colleges as follows:

Allegheny College, Pa 1

Baltimore College for Women, Md 1

Berea College, Ky x

Carleton College, Minn 3

Central College, Ind i

Colorado College, Colo i

Cornell College, la i

Denison University, O i

De Pauw University, Ind i

Findlay College, 0 1

Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, N. Y i

Geneva College, Pa i

Goshen College, Ind i

Milwaukee-Downer College, Wis i

Mount Holyoke College, Mass 2

Northwestern University, 111 2

Ohio State University, O i

Otterbcin University, O x

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Piedmont College, Ga 1

Union Christian College, Ind i

University of Chicago, 111 1

University of Minnesota, Minn 3

University of Rochester, N. Y i

University of Wooster, O i

Wells College, N. Y i

The Western College, O ,1

Western Reserve University, O i

Westminster College, Utah i

Five students who were enrolled the previous year in Oberlin Acade-
my were able to enter the College as Sophomores. These five students
did not have sufficient credits to secure the Freshman classification at the
beginning of the year, but were ranked as Academy students with ad-
vanced credits, and by doing extra work during the year they were able
to secure classification the succeeding year as Sophomores with deficiencies.
Advancement in classification in some such way as this is made very
easy by enrollment for summer work in the Oberlin Summer School.

Three students entered with advanced standing after classification
the preceding year in Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Two of these se-
cured classification as Seniors. In both instances there had been preceding
enrollment in the College department. The other Conservatory student
admitted to advanced standing took rank as a Junior, her preceding lit-
erary work having been taken in a good normal school.

Students Admitted as Freshmen and College Specials

It is of interest to note where the new Freshmen and College Specials
received their preparation for college. Six of the College Specials and
two of the Freshmen had studied in other colleges, and were really of
higher rank than Freshmen. The table on page 117 shows 227 Freshmen
and Collgge Specials. Subtracting the 8 students above mentioned we
have left a total of 219. Of these, 45 came from Oberlin Academy, 2 from
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and 172 from 118 high schools, academies,
and other institutions.

There were 95 schools that were represented by one student each.
The schools which sent more than one student numbered 23. With the
extension of the course of study at Oberlin High School the graduates of
this school are able to take classification as Freshmen, and 20 of the Ober-

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lin High School graduates were admitted to the College department The
next school in point of enrollment of graduates is Elyria High School^
with 8 students.

The ii8 schools which furnished new students of Freshmen grade for
Oberlin College were as follows:

Albany, N. Y., High School

Almond, N. Y., High School

Attoona, Pa., High School

Anderson, Ind., High School

Armada, Mich., High School

Ashland, Wis., High School

Ashtabula, O., High School

Ashtabula, O., Harbor High School

Bath, N. Y., Haverling High School

Bay City, ^fich., High School

Bellevue, Mich., High School

Bellevue O., High School

Benton Harbor, Mich., High School 2

Benzonia, Mich., Benzonia Academy 2

Bergen, N. Y., High School 3

Berlin, Wis., High School

Bismarck, N. D., High School

Brooklyn, N. Y., Manual Training High School

Buffalo, N. Y., Central High School ;

Buffalo, N. Y., Lafayette High School

Cadiz, O., High School

Canton, O., High School

Chardon, O., High School

Chenoa, 111., High School

Chicago, 111., Austin High School

Chicago, 111., McKinley High School

Chrisman, 111., High School .^

Cleveland, O., Central High School

Cleveland, O., Lincoln High School

Cleveland, O., South High School

Cleveland, O., West High School

Collinwood, O., High School -.

Conesville, O., High School

Conneaut, O., High School

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Cortland, N. Y., High School

Coschocton, O., High School

Denver, Colo., East High School

Derby, V^t., Derby Academy

Dubuque, la.. High School

Duluth, Minn., Central High School

East Liverpool, O., High School

Elgin, 111., Elgin Academy

Elgin, 111., High School

Elkhom, Wis., High School

Elyria, O., High School

Findlay, O., High School

Fort Atkinson, Wis., High School

Gallipolis, O., High School

Garrettsville, O., High School

Geneseo, 111., High School

Glenville, O., High School

Grand Rapids, Mich., Central High School

Greenwich, O., High School

Hartford City, Ind., High School

Hillsdale, Mich., High School

Hudson, Mich., Hifeh School

Hudson, O., Western Reserve Academy

Huron, O., High School

Jefferson, O., High School

Johnstown, Pa., High School

Kenton, O., High School

Lancaster, N. Y., High School

Lisbon, O., High School

Livonia, N. Y., High School

Madisonville, O., High School

Mansfield, O., High School

Marietta, O., Marietta Academy

Marysville, O., High School /

Mason City, Iowa, High School

Milwaukee, Wis., South Division High School

Minonk, 111., High School

Monroeville, O., High School 2

Mt. Pleasant, Pa., West Pa. CI. and Sci. Inst i

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Mt. Pleasant, Utah, Wahsatch Academy

Mt. Vernon, O., High School

Muhlcnburg, O., Township High School

Murphysboro, 111., Township High School

Napoleon, O., High School

Newark, N. J., High School

New Haven, Conn., High School

New Richmond, Wis., High School

North Platte, Neb., High School

Norwalk, O., High School

Oak Harbor, O., High School

Oak Park, 111., High School

Oberlin, O., High School 20

Ottumwa, la., High School

Painesville, O., High School

Pawtuckct, R. I., High School

Pennington, N. J., Pennington Seminary

Pennsburg, Pa., Perkiomen Seminary

Perry, O., High School

Phoenix, N. Y., High School

Pittsburgh, Pa., Central High School

Plainfield, N. J., High School '.

Polo, 111., High School

St. Joseph, Mich., High School

St. Louis, Mo., Central High School

St. Marys, O., High School

Salida, Colo., Salida Academy

Sioux Falls, S. D., All Saints School

South New L>*me, O., New Ljrmc Institute

Springfield, Mass., West High School

Stamford, N. Y., Stamford Seminary

Stanford ville, N. Y., Christian Biblical Institute

Tecumseh, Mich., High School

Titusville, Pa., High School !

Toledo, O., Central High School

Traer, Iowa, High School

Union Springs, N. Y., Oakwood Seminary

Victor, Iowa, High School

Ware, Mass., High School 2

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Washington, D. C, M. Street High School i

Wauseon, O., H igh School i

Wellington, O., High School i

Westfield, N. J., High School 1

Wheeling, W. Va., Linsly Institute 1

Winfield, Iowa, High School i

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Requirements for Admission to the College Department

The experience of another year confirms the belief that the admission
requirements which became effective in September, 1901, are working sat-
isfactorily. In two or three subjects there is the need of some revision of
the definitions, particularly in the History and Civics group, and the Com-
mittee on Admission will probably decide to spend some time during the
coming year in further revisions of these definitions of entrance units.

Amount of Entrance Credits

For two years the following vote by the Committee on Admission
has been enforced, — "That not more than sixteen units of admission cred-
its will be granted to any student whose preparatory work in High School
(or Academy) covered only four years in time." We are particularly
pleased with the working of this rule. Last year only nineteen students,
comprising 9 per cent, of the total number, were granted entrance credits
of more than sixteen units. In every case these students had prepara-
tory courses covering four full years and an additional year either in
Oberlin Academy or as a post-graduate in a high school.

Referring to the table on page 117 it will be noticed that 227 students
were admitted during the last year under the classification of Freshmen
and College Specials. In the cases of three of the Freshmen and five of
the Specials the exact credits were never determined. Eight others were
classed as Freshmen or College Specials who were admitted from other
colleges with advanced credits, and no attempt was made in the following
tables to examine the subjects presented for admission by these students.
The preparation of the remaining 211 students has been carefully studied
and the results recorded in the following tables.

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than 15 units of credit. A "unit" of work for entrance comprises four
recitation hours a week for one year, and five periods of forty-five nunutes
each will be accepted as an equivalent.

Amount of Entrance Credits

1904-05

1903-04

1902-03
per cent

1901-<tt

per cent

32.2

22.8

36.0
9.0
100

per cent

68 students presented between 14 and 15 units
48 " " 15 units

36.5
18.0
32.6
12.9

34.7
17.1
23.2
26.0

32.3
18.4

76 " " between 15 and 16 units
19 " " more than 16 units

17.9
3lN

211

100

The details of entrance credits of these students are as follows:

Units Presented

Men

Women

Total

14 Unita

13
3
6
6
5
0

19
1
6
4
0
5

13
5

15
4
4

7
6
1

29
6
5
9
9
4

UH "

14^ "

U% "

14^ "

14J "

15* •* .:...:

15^ "

15'<j "

15.^ ••

15^ "

155^ "

16*^ •• ::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

More than 16 "

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211

Subjects Presented by Freshmen >

History, Two students failed to meet the minimum requirement of
one unit in History. Students who present less than one unit in the sub-
ject of History are required to elect courses in History in the College to
make up the deficiency. Forty-seven students presented the minimum of
one unit, and the remaining 162 presented more than three units. It is
the preference of the committee that not more than three units of work
in History be presented for entrance.

Mathematics, The full requirement of three units was presented by
157 ou^ of 211. Fifty-four students were admitted with conditions in
Mathematics. Thirty-seven had either a half unit of condition in Alge-

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bra or a half unit in Solid Geometry. Fourteen had conditions of a full
unit, — in a majority of thefte cases the preparation lacked a half unit in
each of the subjects of Algebra and Solid Geometry. Three others had
partial credits in Algebra and Geometry. Conditions in Mathematics are
made up by enrollment in the classes in Oberlin Academy.

Latin. The minimum requirement is two units. One student pre-
sented no Latin. Nine others presented less than the minimum. Sixteen stu-
dents presented two units; sixteen students presented more than two units,
but less than three units; fourteen students presented three units; thirty-
five ^Mudents presented more than three units, but less than four units.
The preference of the Committee on Admission is that students present
four units in Latin, and 117 candidates (slightly more than 50 per cent.)
presented this amount of Latin. Three students presented work for which
more than four units was allowed. In general the preparation of the
new students has been strikingly uniform for the last three years.

Students who present less than two units in Latin are required to
elect work in Oberlin Academy to meet this minimum. Where a student
presents more than two units, but less than four, the Committee on Ad-
mission urges, but does not require, the election of Academy courses in
Latin.

Greek, Greek is optional. The number of applicants who present
Greek is growing smaller every year. There were only forty-one stu-
dents out of a total of 211 who presented work in this subject, less than
30 per cent., as compared to 38 per cent in 1902-03. Relatively few of
those who present Greek for admission present less than two full years of
work.

German, German is optional. The total number of applicants who
presented German was 144, being 68.2 per cent, as compared with 61.8
per cent in 1903-04, and 63.4 per ^ent in 1902-03. Seven students pre-
sented less than one unit Forty-one students presented a single year of
work in German, while sixty-three presented two years of work in this
subject. Eleven students presented more than two units.

French, French is optional, and the number of applicants who pre-
sent French is small, smaller even than in the case of the Greek. There
were 33 students who presented French, the percentage being 15.6 as com-
pared to 19.3 the preceding year. Twelve of the students presented a
year of work in French. Four presented two years of work. Five others
received credits of more than two units. Very few schools seem to offer
French in their list of high school electives.

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Sciences, The minimum requirement in Science is one unit. It is rec-
ommended that applicants present at least one Science course which has
covered a complete year, submitting satisfactory laboratory note books,
but the committee still allows credit for term courses and half year
courses. There were fourteen students who did not meet the minimum
requirement. Eight of these had had no Science preparation and six
others had had less than a year of Science work. Twenty-nine students
met the minimum requirement of one unit. Forty-two students presented
two units. Forty-eight students received credits ranging between two and
three units. Twenty-three students received three units of credit '^here
were twelve students whose credits exceeded three units, four of whom
received four units. It is the preference of the Committee on Admissioo
that not more than three units of work be presented in this subject.

English. One hundred and ninety applicants, representing 90 per
cent, met the full requirement of three units in the subject of English. Of
this number thirty-four received credits slightly in excess of three units in
consideration of preparatory work covering more than three years. Twen-
ty-one students presented less than the minimum requirement. Students
who arc received with conditions in English are required to elect prepar-
atory courses in Oberlin Academy to make up the deficiency.

Miscellaneous Subjects, The Committee is willing to make some al-
lowance for admission credits for subjects not ordinarily presented, provid-
ing the work is worthy and the certificate shows that the preparation has
been good. Eight students received small allowances for Psychology.
Seven students presented work in Drawing, Manual Training, and Shop
Work, for which credits were assigned. Other subjects presented were
Pedagogy, Logic, History of Education, Bible, Elocution, and Oratory.
The general attitude of the Committee with reference to these subjects
is that they do not properly belong in the high school curriculum, but that
where they have constituted a part of the student's regular course in the
high school it is not unreasonable to make a slight allowance of credit
for them.

First Semester Reports for Freshmen

Another year of experience with the first semester reports of Fresh-
men has been entirely satisfactory. During the last two years the records
of work done by Freshmen and College Specials during the first semes-
ter of Oberlin enrollment have been sent out to the preparatory schools

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from which the students came. The preparation of the reports enables the
College to scrutinize the quality of the work of the students more careful-
ly, and the knowledge that the records of the students are to be reported
back to the high schools, makes the high schools more careful in their
certification of the students. Where the students showed particularly fine
scholarship the reports were accompanied by personal letters expressing
the satisfaction of the College in the work of the students, and we have
received many replies showing that the best schools take a wholesome
pride in the subsequent work done by their graduates.

Admission Credits of Conservatory Students

In accordance with the vote of the Trustees the students in the Con-
servatory of Music are now catalogued under the two headings, "Students
of College Rank," and "Students of Academy Rank,'^ it being explained
in the catalogue that the students of the first classification have met the
literary requirements for admission to the College department, while the
students of the second classification have not met these literary require-
ments. The general catalogue for 1904-05 contained the names of 549
students in the Conservatory department. Of this number 97 were
classed as of College rank and 452 as of Academy rank. The preparatory
credits of the 97 students classed as of College rank came to me as Chair-
man of the Committee on Admission, and were treated in practically the
same way as the preparatory credits of students in the College depart-
ment. The Committee on Admission has passed the following votes with
reference to the literary credits of Conservatory students: (i) that sub-
stitutions will be allowed for the half unit of Solid Geometry and the
last half unit of Algebra, these substitutions to be made from other sub-
jects regularly approved for entrance credit; (2) that there will be no
releases from the minimum requirements of three units in English, one
unit in History, and one unit in Sciences; (3) that there will be no re-
leases from the minimum requirement of four units in Languages with
two of these units presented from some one Language, but the Commit-
tee will not insist that the two units be presented in Latin.

Non-Return of College Students

Referring again to the table on page 102, it appears that 178 men
and 205 women, a total of 383 students, who had been in the College de-
partment in 1903-04, returned for the year 1904-05.

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The foIIowiDg table gives the details of losses in the various classes:

In Catalogrue
1908-04

Returned
1904-06

Did Not Return
1904-05

Received
Decrees 1904

Graduates

17
103
111
138
223

111

159

13
95
19
27
64
32

Seniors

Juniors

S(^>homoreS

Freshmen

Specials

exi

383

250

107

One hundred and seven students received degrees, but five of those
who received degrees came back for enrollment in 1904-05. Subtracting the
number who received degrees from the total enrollment, we have left 526
students who should ideally have come back to Oberlin in 1904-05 for
further study. There were 148 students out of this total of 526 who did
not return, the percentage of loss being 28.1 per cent. This is not so
great a percentage as during the preceding 3'ear, but is larger than the
year 1902-03, the percentage for these two years being 30, and 23.6 re-
spectively.

The following table shows the items which constitute this loss of
148 students.

Men

Women

Total

Graduates

2
2
7
10
21
8

2
0
12
17
43
24

Seniors

Juniors

Sophomores

Freshmen

Specials

148

It should be noted in passing that the percentage of ''Specials*' who.
did not return is very great, being 32 out of 41, — 78 per cent. In other
words, when students come to Oberlin and ask to be classed as Specials
we face the fact that there is only one chance in four that the student
will return for college work during the succeeding year. The College
officers therefore use every possible inducement to influence the students
to take regular classification rather than special.

Once again we have made inquiries concerning the reasons for non-

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leturn, and have tabulated these reasons, the information being given
either by the students or by college officers who were in touch with the
students :

Reasons for Non-retum

Men

Women

6
19
3

4
0
0
7
4
3
5
1
22

Total

6
6
0

1
3
1
6
2
0
1
1
5

Health

To other Collesres

Men
2
6
2

3
0
1

1
0
0
4

Women

3
2
0

0
7
3
0
3
3
3

Total ^
6

Because of previous plan

To enter professional schools

To enter technical schools

7
2

7
4
1
3
3
7

To combine coUesre and profes-
sional work

To live nearer students' homes...
Dissatisfied in Oberlin

To graduate sooner elsewhere

To get 1 year away from Oberlin..
Unfavorable climate in Oberlin....
No reasons firiven

To Oberlin Conservatory of Music

To go into business

To Oberlin Theoloerical Seminary

Failure in scholarship or otherwise

undesin

able

Harried (not allowed to return)

Came merely for one year

To teach

Dissatisfied with proarress

No reason known

Totals

108

147

III. SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS AND BENEFICIARY AID

At the semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, held June 22.
1903, the following vote was passed:

"To ask the Secretary to prepare a statement of the
beneficiar}'^ aid funds of the College, including a com-
parison of recent years, for presentation to this Board at
its next meeting."

It gives me pleasure to present tables herewith showing the facts with
reference to scholarships and beneficiary aid for the year ending August
31, 1905, with similar figures for the two preceding years, and also for
pvrposes of comparison, the figures for the year 1894-95.

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Ausr. 31. 1906|Auflr.31. 1904* Aug. 31. 1903: Au^. 31. 18B6

Scholarship Funds.

University

45.065
25,000
20.541
90.607

811

802

50
00

28
33
no

42.065 50
24.500l00
19.99195
86,557 45

42.275
24.500
19.991
86.767

179
870

41
00
96
36

89
fiR

22.970 09

College

8.567 00

Seminary

17.450

00
09

Total

48,9T7

Loan Funds

Jones

679
600
326
883

2.140
997

1.053

298

78
00
50
25

86
20
00
00
00
06

50
00
56

1.621 49

Moulton

— r

Scholarship

Conservatory

mfi9

73160

1.296 91

816 50

1.460 66

36 00

589 00

Beneficiary Aid Payments

University

College

2.239
1.066
1.144

58
339

4.868

793

687

70
00
96
50
00
16

00
50
66

Note
Note
1.335

A
A

Seminary*

Old Scholarships

NoteA

Avery

246

00
07

60
50
07

Note

Note
Note
3.560

Trustee: College

4.525

559

491

5.575

8.85S

448
751

Trustee: Academy

Total

6,348

5.065

In the above table, scholarship funds are arranged under the three
headings of "University," "College," and ''Seminary." The Univeraiiy
scholarships include those funds not especially designated by the founders
for the use of particular departments. The assignment of these scholar^
ships, the determination as to whether they are to be used for the aid of
men or women, whether they are for College, Academy, or Seminary stu-
dents, has been by vote of the General Faculty. It will be noted that
there are no special scholarships for the Academy or for the Conserva-
tory of Music.

A word of explanation should be made with reference to the **Trui-
tec" scholarships. The amounts paid upon Trustee scholarships each year
represent payments from the general income of the College. During the
year 1904-05 the amount of Trustee scholarships used, $1,480.50, repre-
sented the income of more than $30,000 of the general endowment funds,
and it would be very desirable that additional scholarship funds be so-
licited, to remove the necessity of this tax upon the endowment funds of
the College.

The table which follows gives information with reference to the

♦The payments in the Seminary include also gifts and loans repaid.
Note A. The total payments upon University. College. Avery, and Trustee Scholar-
ships in 1894-05 were $2215.82.

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number of students who have received help during the last two yean
from the scholarship funds in the College and Academy departments, to-
gether with the average amounts granted. In connection with the larger
average grants to women than to men, it should be borne in mind that it
is probably much easier for young men to secure outside work to help
meet their College expenses than it is for young women.

1903-04

CoUeffe Hen

Colle^re Woinen....
Academy Hen.... .
Academy Women.

1904^

CJoIleare Hen

CoHeffe Women...

Academy Men

Academy Women.

Number

enrolled

in the

department

Number

receiving

benef.

aid

279

854

176

129

294

876

214

148

Total
amount
sranted

$ 1.683

1,J
647
446

4.538 60

1.682 00

2.062 24

I
827 00

^826150^

4.892,74

Avenifire
amount
srranted

$20
86
13
18

The facts with reference to scholarships are not presented at this
time with any thought that the College ought to discontinue any of its
present gifts to students. On the other hand, the increase in the term
bills in the College department from $40 per year in 1895 ^^ $75 P^^ Y^^^
in 1905, and in the Academy department from $40 per year in 1895 to
$50 per year in 1905, makes it difficult to realize for our self-supporting
students the hope which is expressed in the annual catalogue of the Col-
lege in the following words, "that no worthy student need be prevented
from enjoying the privileges of the College because of his inability to pay
the term bills." We need more scholarship funds, not less, for bene-
ficiary aid purposes.

ft would also be very desirable if several prize scholarships could be
established, to be awarded for superior excellence in studies. All of our
present scholarship funds are beneficiary in their nature.

It is not the custom of the committees that have charge of the dis-

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tribution of beneficiary aid to grant the entire income of any particular
scholarship to any particular person. Usually the income of a scholarship
is assigned to several students. In a few cases, as for instance: with the
Whitcomb Scholarships, the entire income from $i,ooo is given to a single
student. But in most cases the income is divided up as above indicated.

Loan Funds

A report on the scholarships would be incomplete without a reference
to the loan funds. Our experience with these loan funds has been very
interesting. There are many who believe that the aid which colleges
grant to students should be in the nature of loans rather than beneficiary
gifts, and there are increasing numbers of students who seem to prefer
to receive the money as loans. There are now five loan funds, the four
which are mentioned in the preceding table, and the Shcdd Fund. Id
addition to these the College will probably receive during the coming
year the sum of $10,000, by the bequest of Mrs. Ella J. Gilchrist Potter,
to be known as the Gilchrist Banking Fund for Students in Oberlia
College.

The Shedd Fund, $iopoo. The Shedd Fund is classed among the
endowment funds of the College. It is the gift of Messrs. E. A. and C.
B. Shedd of Chicago. Whereas the ordinary endowment funds of the
College are invested in mortgages and real estate, the Shedd Fund ia in-
vested in loans to students. It was established in 1902. Since that time
twenty-nine loans, aggregating $1480, have been made. The loans from
these funds are made to young men in the two upper classes in the Col-
lege department with the restriction that not more than $100 is granted
to any student during any one year. Four of these loans, amounting to
$234, have been repaid. The outstanding loans from the Fund at the
31st of August, 1905, amounted to $1,256. In all cases the loans from this
Fund are protected by interest-bearing notes payable not later than two
years after the date of graduation. At the first of July of each year the
Treasurer's office sends out statements of the amount of interest due, and
our experience with the collection of the interest upon these loans has
been satisfactory. The Fund has been in operation too short a time, how-
ever, to enable us to judge whether there will be much default in the
payment of interest or in the repayment of the loans when due.

Jones Loan Fund. The Jones Loan Fund was founded in 1859, by a
bequest of $529.47. It has since been increased by sundry small gifts, the
largest being in the neighborhood of $100. The fund stands upon the

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College Treasurer's books at the nominal figure of $1,000. It is a lo.in
fund for women, and in the forty-five years of its existence it has done
a remarkable work. From the founding of the Fund to the summer of
1905, there have been 434 loans made to students in sums ranging from
$5 to $75 each. Probably not less than 200 women have received assist-
ance from this Fund. The aggregate of all the loans that have been made
up to August 31, 1905, is $9,662.50. The outstanding loans at the 31st of
August, 1905, were $i,8n, and there remained in the Fund itself at the
same date, $811.28. l^he outstanding loans include probably $500 that
will never be repaid, and $400 more of doubtful value. Until recent years
the policy has been to keep the principal on interest and to make loans
only from the accrued interest, but this policy is no longer followed, and
the Fund is doing an increasingly large work.

May Moulton Loan Fund. This Fund wa| established by Mrs. Susan
A. S. Moulton, May, 1904, for the purpose of making loans to deserving
young women. Since it was established four loans have been made
amounting to $300. One of these has been repaid with interest. The
amount of the Fund at August 31, 1905, was $302.33.

Conservatory Loan Fund. The Conservatory Loan Fund was found-
ed by the gift of $500 by Dr. Lucien C. Warner, under date of Sep-
tember, 1885. The Fund has been increased in recent years by sundry
small receipts, which have been applied for that purpose, these receipts
coming from admissions to Senior recitals and to the Commencement ex-
ercises of the Conservatory. The additions have amounted to from $140
to $i6q a year. The Conservator}' Loan Fund is restricted to the as-
sistance of Seniors in the Conservatory department. From ten to fifteen
loans are made each year from the Fund. The amount remaining in the
Fund, August 31st, 1905, was $133.69.

Scholarship Loan Fund This is a fund which has appeared in the
annual reports for only a few years. Since 1898 the College has received
$752,50 from men in repayment of money given to them by the College
cither as beneficiary gifts or as loans from scholarship funds. Begin-
ning in 1902 these amounts have been grouped under the name of
"Scholarship Loan Fund." During the three years, 1902-05, thirty-one
new loans have been made from this fund, amounting to $672.50. Orie of
these loans has been paid. Counting these loans of the last three years
and similar loans during the preceding five years, there is an outstand-
ing total of $1,620 properly belonging to this account, most of which will
be paid. If we are successful in the collection of the outstanding loani

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above mentioned, the Scholarship Loan Fund will prove to be as useful
in aiding the men as the Jones Loan Fund has been for the assistance of
women.

IV. OFFICL\L RECORDS AND STATISTICS

The Secretary' of the College is the custodian of the oflBcial records
of the Board of Trustees, and an important portion of his work consists
in the preparation of the minutes of each Trustee meeting and in the is*
suing of formal notifications concerning the actions taken at these meetings.

The Secretary is also the custodian of the records of the Prudential
Committee, and has charge of the minutes of the weekly meetings of that
Committee, and of the notifications resulting from actions taken by the
Prudential Committee.

Within the last two years the Trustees have transferred to the Sec*
retary the oversight of the Alumni mailing lists and the ballots for Alum-
ni Trustees, and a considerable portion of the new work of the office dur-
ing the past year has had to do with these records of Alumni.

During the year the names of the Alumni of the College have been
arranged in three distinct card catalogues: (z) an alphabetical catalogue
of all Alumni; (2) a geographical catalogue of all living Alumni; and
(3) a class catalogue arranged according to the years of graduation.
Where changes of address are reported the corrections are made in all of
these catalogues, thus preserv'ing the Alumni records in satisfactory shape
for quick reference.

Vote for Alumni Trustee

In my position as officer in charge of the ballot for Alumni Trustees
I have been impressed by the very large number of the Alumni who par-
ticipate in the election of Alumni representatives upon the Board of Trus-
tees. The table printed below gives some interesting information concern-
ing the preliminary and final ballots during the last five years. I do not
suppose that there is another college in this country in which so large a
proportion of the Alumni participate in the election of Alumni Trustees.

In each election there are either five or six names printed upon the
final ballot, five if there is but one vacancy to be filled upon the Board
of Trustees, six if there are two vacancies. The votes for the various
candidates are tabulated under the letters "A," "B," "C," *'D," "E," and
"F," the candidate "A" in each case being the retiring Trustee. A
ttudy of the preliminar\' election shows that only half as many Alumni

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participate in the nomination as in the final election; also that the retir-
ing Trustee receives in almost every case the renomination of nearly aU
the Alumni who send in ballots. It will probably be a surprise to some
of the Alumni of the College to learn that the candidates in the second,
third, fourth, and fifth places receive such a relatively small number of
nominating votes '

1904

1903

1902

1901

1900

P F

¥* F

P F

689 864

649 589

472

850 1097

221 265

8 118

22 318

320

4 364

31 114

7 224

7 128

284

4 134

29 173

3 216

7 136

230

4 98

16 235

3 101

6 246

123

4 79

14 53

4 136

10 605

Others

179

Totals

782 1623

773 1642

1616

920 1762

500 1365

*In some way the results of the preliminary ballot for 1902 seem to have been lost.

This office seems the most natural place for the filing of miscellaneous
statistics with reference to the general work of the College. The tables
which follow contain many facts of general interest as showing the prog-
ress of the work of the College in all its departments.

Officers and Teachers

The officers of instruction and government for the College year .of
1904-05 were as follows:

Professors 34

Associate Professors 4

Instructors 24

Tutors, Teachers, and Laboratory Assistants 20

Librarians and Librar>' Assistants 8

Gymnasium Directors and Assistants 6

Administrative Officers and Clerks 14

Total no

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Degrees Conferred
The corresponding total for the preceding year was io6.
The following degrees were conferred during the year 1904-0$:
In Course: Men Women Total

Master of Arts (A.M.) 4 2 6

Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) 55 60 1x5

Bachelor of Music (Mus.B.) o 4 4

Bachelor of Divinity (D.B.) 11 o n

70 66 136

Upon Completion of Prescribed JVork:

Master of Arts (A.M.) 112

Honorary:

Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) i o i

Doctor of Science (ScD.) 101

Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) i o i

Master of Arts (A.M.) o i i

3 I 4

In addition to tlie above, two men and four women received diplo-
mas of graduation from the Conservatory of Music, and one man the di-
ploma of graduation from the Slavic department of the Theological Sem-
inary. Seven young women who received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
in course, received the diploma of the Teachers* Course in Physical
Training.

The aggregate of all degrees and diplomas issued was i$6, the
largest number in the history of the College. The corresponding figures
for the five preceding years are shown below:

1899-1900 122

1900-01 100

1901-02 102

1902-03 141

1903-04 136

During the year eight graduates of the former "Literary" course
forwarded to the Treasurer of the College the degree fee of $5 and re-
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Letters (L.B.), a procedure authorized
by the Board of Trustees under date of June 18, 1894.

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Forty-five diplomas of graduation were issued for those who com-
pleted the prescribed courses of study in Oberlin Academy, as compared
to 34 the preceding year.

General Enrolment IQ04-OS

The enrollment of students for the year 1904-05, as published in the
final edition of the catalogue last June, reached the total of 1,715. This
total shows an increase of 97 over the preceding year, and is the highest
in the history of the College. In this total were counted all students who
had been in attendance at any time during the year. In the Summer
School of 1904 there were enrolled 58 students whose names were not
found elsewhere in the year's enrollment, and they were included in the
above total. The following table shows the number of students in each
department, with the corresponding figures for the three preceding years:

TheCollegre

t 1

376 1 670

c
0

2;
1"

6xx

633

267

311 578

5 57

] U

499

The Seminary

214

0 51
148' 362
472 549
24 25
43 58

0 36
29 305
82 579
22 24
20 41
9] [39]

w07 1618

35 0 35
175 155 330
68 462 530
2 11 13
9 14' 23
[-] [25J [25]

556 as:^' 1509

The Academy

?>70

The Conservatory of Music

Drawing: and Paintingr

L3
t6

501
50

The Summer School

L6
1 -]

•Teachers' Course, Phys. Tr'gr

t-]

662

[48J [481
1063 1715

[-]

E >6' 1382

Of the 1,715 students enrolled last year, 1,669 came from 46 states
and territories in the United States, and 46 came from 17 foreign countries.
The state of Ohio furnished 877 students, slightly more than 51 per cent,
of the entire number. The other states which sent the largest numbers
of students were as follows: Illinois, 123; Pennsylvania, 86; New York,
86; Michigan, 79; Iowa, 77, and Indiana, 57.

The Number of Men in Oberlin

The relative number of men in the entire institution showed a gain
over the preceding year. There has been but slight change in the propor-
tion during the last seven years.

♦The students in the Teachers' Course In Physical Training are included in the totals
for the CoUegre dcpartmenl.

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Entire Institution: Number of Total pa«. «„♦««•

Men Enrollment P««ent«««

1898-99 477 «03 39*»tf

1899-1900 524 1323 39iVff

1900-01 532 1357 39iV(>

1901-02 526 1382 37iVff

1902-03 :... 556 1509 36,Vff

1903-04 6ii 1618 37tVo

1904-05 652 . 1715 38,Vo

In the College department, howrv'cr, the relative number of men has
suffered a decided decrease in the last few years, as will be seen from the
following table:

College department: ^"S^"*"' Enrollment Percentage

1898-99 179 419 4a.^oV

1899-1900 190 417 45,Va

1900-01 197 4^8 46r?3

1901-02 242 499 48 iVff

1902-03 267 578 461VJT

1903-04 279 633 441^7

»904-05 294 670 43i''d\

A further decrease in the number of men seems to be promised for
the year 1905-06. The figures for the fall term show 291 men, out of a
total of 696, the percentage being thus seen to be 41.81.

The decreased percentage of men in the College department seems to
me to be worthy of the most serious consideration both by the Trustees
and by the Faculty. The time seems to me to be a critical one in the
history of the College. For five years the percentage of men has steadily
decreased, dropping from 48.51 per cent, to the present figure,
41.81. If the proportion of men in the College department decreases to
any lower point or if it remains at its present point, it seems to me that
the strongest men in the various high schools will begin to hesitate to come
to Oberlin on account of the predominance of women. This hesitation
may or may not be reasonable, but I thoroughly believe that the best men
of the high school classes will look elsewhere for college enrollment. Our
best efforts ought to be made not only to stop the decreased percentage,
but to make a positive and decided gain in the relative number of men.

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I do not betieve that this will be best accomplished by limiting the num-
ber of women who are to be received into the College department, but
rather by making Oberlin more attractive to men for their college
courses. The building of a men's hall, which shall be the center of the
social life of men with men, seems to me to be the greatest need of Ober-
lin at this time. The establishing of a moderate amount of shop-work
would also aid in holding men for longer registration. Dormitories for
men would also make the life here increasingly attractive.

Students from Ohio

The proportion of Oberlin students who come from the state of Ohio
has remained very nearly constant for the last nine years:

Year * Total

ToUl Per cent,

from Ohio from Ohio

1896-97 1283 645 SOiVfl

1897-98 1310 680 SliVff

1898-99 1208 603 49j*'o*o

1899-1900 1323 659 49,Vo

1900-01 1357 682 50,Vo

1901-02 1382 689 49iVo

. 1902-03 1509 756 SOiVff

1903-04 1618 825 50iV(r

1904-05 1715 877 51M

The broadness of Oberlin's constituency can be the better appreciated
by a comparison with five important institutions of this state, — ^Western
Reserve University, Case School of Applied Science, Kenyon College,
Ohio Wesleyan University,* and Ohio State University. During the year
1904-05 these five institutions enrolled a total of 4,801 students, but only
772 of these came from outside states and countries; whereas Oberlin
drew into the state of Ohio during the same year from outside states and
countries, a total of 838 students. In other words, Oberlin's attractive
power for students from outside the state equaled the combined attract-
ive powers of these five schools, with a margin of nearly ten per cent,
added.

Number of Colored Students in Oberlin

The Commissioner of Education, at Washington, requires a report
*The fiffures available for Ohio Wesleyan University were "f or the calendar year of 1904

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each year of the number of colored students in the institution. The fol-
lowing report covers the year 1904-05:

Men Women Total

The College 9 12 21

The Academy 18 15 33

The Theological Seminary 3 o 3

The Conservatory of Music 5 6 11

Drawing and Painting o 4 4

35 37 72

Colored students formed 4 2-10 per cent, of the total enrollment.
There are more colored students in the Academy than in any other de-
partment. He-e they constitute about 9 per cent, of the total. Three
years ago there were 43 colored students in the entire institution out of a
total of 1,382, the percentage being 3 i-io.

Enrollment Fi inures — Fall jqos

While this report is supposed to cover the College year of 1904-0$, it
has seemed best to present also a statement of the enrollment for the Fall
term of the present year, corrected to the date of issue of this report
[November 9, 1905]. To the figures for this year have been added the
corresponding statistics for the preceding seven years.

"'■'^■^ 5355^23 S*"* J3

The Ck)lletre—

Post-Graduate

Seniors

Juniors

Sophomores

Freshmen

Collejce Specials

The Seminary

The Academy

The Ck)nservatory of Music...

DrawinRand Paintinpr

♦Teachers' Course in Physical
Traininpr

20
131
138
162
196

48
315
466

(63)
1545

£S

s.i

108

131

110

154

139

191

220

652

621

325

279

455

456

(50)

(39)

1505

1402

II II

7 i 4

103

79 1 86

102

67 1 76

139

117

89 M

174

163

142

127 118

28 24

573

47&

421

397 402

34 36

285

242

286

289 286

395

386

353

351

293

(27)

(18)

(1)

6 14

1301

1172

1129

1104

1014

•Since 1900 the students in the Teachers' Cotirse in Physical Training have been included
in the total of the Ck)llefi:e Department.

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Enrollment for Fourteen Years

The following chart shows the variations in enrollments during the
last fourteen years, beginning with 1891-92, the year in which the count
was firft msde by the College year instead o£ the calendar year:

1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
-92 -93 -94 -95 -96 -97 -98 -99 -1900 -01-02-03-04 -05

1800

1700

1600

1500

1400

1300

1200

1100

1000

Statistics of Instruction in the Collesfe Department, Year IQ04-0S

As used in the following table, an "Instruction Unit" means the in-
struction furnished to one student in recitations which are held once a
week for one semester — in other words, an "Instruction Unit" represents
one student in a one-hour course for one semester. To illustrate — a five-
hour course in Political Economy enrolling 55 students is here counted as
representing 275 instruction units; a three-hour course in Surveying, en-

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rolling lo students, represents 30 instruction units. The table which fol-
lows shows the instruction furnished during the year 1904-os, and I have
added for comparison the corresponding figures for the four preceding
years:

Departments

Anatomy

Astronomy

Bible, Theol. and Evidences

Bibliosrraphy

Botany

Chemistry and Mineralosry

Classical Archaeolosry

Economics, Sociology and

PoL Science

Enarlish Composition

English Literature

French

Geology

German

Greek

History

Italian

Latin

Mathematics

Oratory

Philosophy and Pedagogy

Physical Training (for credit)

Physics

Physiolosry

Spanish

Zoology

Teachers' Course Phy. Tr

ToUls

92
386
S54

174

)73
S12
S91
349
162
706
300
335
0
146
>45
>92
(33
103
136
205
104
>48
M)7

39
54
954
122
408
1556

1557

1358

1197

174

1333

439

1141

1236

1624

211

1327

360

456

140

776

135

27
757

172

1212

108

1241

1434
866
167

1206
425

1623
0

1276

1798
323

1340
323
418
125
86
698
0

24
48
679
• 14
187
960
179

848

1241

902

178

1082

477

1419

1058

1715

432

1042

835

130

514

28 17659 161771 14114 11961

hi
1=1

0
96

338
92
381
633
290

691
984
839

160

880

57S

1240

1106

139S

306

984

327

227

The column marked ''hours of teachers' time" includes all the time
spent by the teachers, whether in class room recitations or in laboratory
instruction.

In the two semesters of 1904-05, there were 254 classes. The total
enrollment of students in these classes was 6,955, so that the average per
class was 27.4. This average number of students per class has doc
changed in the last three years.

The enrollment in the College department for 1904-05 showed an in-
crease of about 6 per cent, over the enrollment for 1903-04, and a gain

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of this amount would naturally be expected in the instruction furnished
in each department. In some departments, however, there have been in-
creases far in excess of the normal 6 per cent, above mentioned. The great-
est increases in the amounts of instruction furnished were as follows:

Astronomy m per cent

Physiology 46 "

Economics, Sociology, and Political Science 40 **

Oratory 38 "

German 28 "

English Literature 17 "

History 17 "

Greek 14 "

French 13 **

Physical Training (for credit) la "

Philosophy and Pedagogy 8 **

The amount of instruction furnished in Bible, Chemistry, English
Composition, Geology, Mathematics, and Physics remained about the same
as for the preceding year.

There were slight losses in Anatomy, Bibliography, Botany, Classical
Archeology, and Latin.

It should be noted that the department of German now ranks first !n
the amount of instruction furnished. The department of Mathematics
has hitherto held the first place.

In comparison with the corresponding figures of four years ago (1900-
01), there are the following striking increases in the amount of instruction
furnished :

Astronomy 216 per cent.

Bible 204

Chemistry and Mineralog}- 192

Zoology 141

English Composition 133

German 94

Economics, Sociologj-, and Political Science 73

English Literature 70

French 60

The gain in enrollment in the College department during the same
period of four years was 56.5 per cent.

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Instruction Given in O Berlin Academy, Year 1004-0$

The instruction furnished in Obcrlin Academy during the year 1904-05
is shown in the table which follows. The Academy is still on the term
plan and the table is figured accordingly. An Academy instruction unit
means the instruction furnished to one student in a one-hour course for
one term. It represents two-thirds of a College instruction unit.

The total number of different classes taught in the Academy durioj;
the year was 191 and the enrollment in them was 4,264, an average of
22 3-10 to each class.

Departments

Bible

Botany

Declamation .

Enfirlish

French

German

Greek

History

Latin

Mathematics •

Physics

Zoology

156

165

141.

Totals .

2575 1689' 4264 14592! 12596 12520. 10480

There have been notable increases in the amount of instruction fur-
nished in English, Latin, Mathematics, and Physics. Each year shows a
smaller number who elect Greek, only one-third as much work being done
in this department as in the year 1901-02.

V. THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

During the year the athletic teams were again coached by Mr. Edwin
Fauver. It was with great regret that we accepted Mr. Fauver*s resig-
nation from the athletic work at the end of the school year. For a num-
ber of years practically the entire control of our athletic teams has been
in his hands, and his influence upon the players has been very good. The
appointment of a member of the Faculty to give the larger portion of
his time to the interests of the athletic teams would be a wise step. The

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work of such an officer might very properly include the work which has
come to me as Graduate Manager, and such an appointment would be a
great relief to me personally.

The two athletic needs which were mentioned in the report of last
year are urgent, the most important need being the completion of the new
track. The cinders for the track and the labor in putting it into shape
will probably cost about $400.

The Athletic Association lost money in all branches of sport last
year. The deficits for the various seasons were as follows:

Deficit, football season 1904 $116.28

" baseball season 1905 3.40

" track season 1905 186.59

'* basket ball season 1905 38.04

" Academy teams 147-49

" Interscholastic Meet 50.04

Two benefit performances were undertaken by the Athletic Association
to help it meet its expenses, a magician performance by Maro yielding
$175.40, and two Open Air Shakespeare performances by the Ben Greet
Company yielding $287.31. Mr. James B. Dill showed his continued in-
terest in our Athletic Association by a gift of $25a The largest item of
expenditure in the way of permanent improvement was the grading and
draining of the new cinder track at Athletic Park. The expenditure for
the new track during the year 1904-05 amounted to $500.33. But for this
one item of imperative improvement the athletic >debt would have been re-
duced. The net deficit on the season of 1904-05 was $379.04. The out-
standing indebtedness on the 31st of August, 1905, was $1,330.55.

To complete the equipment of Dill Field for football purposes we
need a large covered grandstand, to be located on the west side of the
field, with a capacity of 1,200 spectators. As stated in last year's report,
preliminary plans have been drawn for such a grandstand, and bids hav^
been secured. The cost will be about $1,500, but the Athletic Associa-
tion cannot undertake the construction of this stand until the present
debt is reduced or removed and some provision is made for the comple-
tion of the cinder track at Athletic Park.

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE M. JONES.

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To the President:

Sir — I hereby submit the report for the Library for the year 1904.-0$.

GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY

At the beginning of the year, the Library possessed 63,738 bound
volumes, and 36,751 unbound volumes, a total of 100,489. During the
year, 3,816 bound volumes, and 3,236 unbound volumes were added,
making the number, Sept. ist, 1905, 67,554 bound volumes, and 39,987
unbound volumes, a total of 107,541. The following table shows the ad-
, ditions by college years since 1900-01:

Bound Unbound Total

1900-01 4,689 1,878 6,567

1901-02 5,391 1,568 6,959

1902-03 . 3,833 1,292 5,125

1903-04 5,i20 1,581 6,701

1904-05 3,816 3,236 7,15a

It will be seen from the above table that while the number of bound
volumes added during the past year is smaller than in any one of the
four preceding years, the number of unbound volumes added was greater,
so that the total for the year exceeded that for any year in the period.

CONDITION OF THE LIBR.\RY SEPT. IST, 1905

The above record deals only with the catalogued volumes belonging
to the Library, but in addition to these, the Library has many possess-
ions not yet entered on our records, or in any way catalogued. As a yet
more complete statement of the extent of the possessions of the Library,
the following table is given:

Bound Unbound Total

Catalogued 67,554 39i987 107,541

Waiting (est) 1,000 20,000 21,000

Newspapers (vols, in temporary

binders) ii400 1,400

Maps and Charts (est) 2,500 2,500

Manuscripts (10,000 pieces in 50

pamphlet boxes) 50 50

Misc. Articles; Coins, Photographs,

etc 500 500

Total items for which the Libra-
ry must care 68,554 64,437 132,991

To this should be added the U. L. A. Library, now numbering 13,-

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477 bound volumes. In addition, the College Library now owns more
than 30,000 duplicate books and pamphlets from which, by exchange with
other libraries, it is likely to receive a considerable increase in future years,

ADDITIONS OF THE YEAR

The 3,816 bound volumes added during the year came from the fol-
lowing sources: by purchase, 1,450 volumes; by gift and exchange, 2,366.
The largest gift of the year does not appear in the record, as it was re-
ceived too late to be included. This is the private library of Professor Al-
bert Allen Wright, which at his wish has been turned over to the Library
by Mrs. Wright. As this library has been in the building for more
than twenty years, and purchases during that period have been constantly^
made by Professor Wright with a view to supplementing the College Li-
brary, a very large part of the collection proved to be additions to the
College Library, and of especial value because selected during all these
years with special reference to supplementing the College collection. It is
not possible, at the present time, to give the total of this library, but at
least six or se\'en hundred volumes will prove to be additions, and a very *
much larger number of pamphlets.

Other gifts deserving special mention arc the following:

From Mrs. E. W. R. Lord, who for many years has been a steady and
valued contributor, we received a large number of bound volumes and
pamphlets. Among the former was a set of the Students' Annual, from
the beginning, which we were particularly glad to have, as the set owned
by the Library is rapidly being worn out by the constant use made of it

Mrs. H. N. McDaniels sent us a large number of volumes from the
library of her father, N. T. Fay, and her grandfather, Benjamin Wood-
bury, the greater part of which proved to be additions.

From the estate of Professor Fenelon B. Rice, through the kindness
of Mrs. Rice and Louis M. Rice, was received a large number of books
on the History of Music, a considerable part of which were additions to
the Library, and the remainder of such value that we were glad to add
them as second copies.

The Rev. T. H. Robinson, D. D., of the class of 1850, sent us a large
selection from his valuable private library, accumulated during the many
years of his pastorate and his professorship in the Western Theological
Seminary, at Allegheny, Pa.

From Mrs. Helen V. Fairchild, a considerable number of books, many
of them of special Oberlin interest, were received.

From Mrs. Lucy F. Kenaston, class of *6i, came the very valuable

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matuscript collection of letters received by the late President, James Harris
Fairchild, from about 1870 until his death, in 1902. This coHection, which
has been arranged in pamphlet boxes, is estimated to contain about 10,000
pieces, containing letters from many eminent men in this and other lands,
and will undoubtedly prove, as the years go on, of the greatest value to
the College.

From Miss Josephine Ellis, through the kindness of her niece, Miss
Lucy Bushnell, a large number of books, many of which are of special in-
terest because connected with Oberlin.

From Mrs. G. W. Shurtleff, valuable educational works from the
library of Professor Giles W. ShurtlcflF.

From the estate of W. H. Pearce, who was for many years the editor
of the Oberlin News, came a great collection of magazines and newspapers
received by him in exchange, and also a collection of pamphlets, programs,
and so forth, of special interest as filling gaps in our collection of Oberlin-
iana.

From R. T. Miller, Jr., of the class of 1891, President of the American
School of Correspondence at the Armour Institute in Chicago, the extremely
valuable encyclopedias of Engineering, Electricity, and Mechanical Draw-
ing, published by this school. These valuable and expensive works have
at once found a place in our reference library, where they have proved
of ver>' great service. ^

Treasurer James R. Severance presented to the Library the medical
library of his father, for many years a physician in Bellevue. This
library was especially rich in early American Medical Periodicals, and
was a very welcome gift. As an example of how every such addition
helps, it may be stated that we had, only a few weeks before this gift was
received, borrowed, for the use of one of our professors, some of the very
volumes which proved to be in it, from the library of the Surgeon-Gen -
eraPs ofBce, at Washington, volumes which were exceedingly scarce and
difficult to obtain. These volumes can now be consulted in our own library.
From Mrs. S. A. S. Moulton, there came a very large number of books
from the library of her husband, many of which were reference books of
very great value.

From the estate of the late Mrs. Reamer, through the kindness of Miss
Ella Manlcy, there was received a large number of valuable papers and
pamphlets, and a small collccticn of books.

Professor F. F. Jewett presented to the Library a complete set of the
Americrn Chemical Jeurnal.

Mrs. S. A. Cook sent us many valuable papers and magazines, making

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• very important addition to our very incomplete set of Harpers Weekly.

A great number of other gifts, ranging from one to a half dozen vol-
umes, have been received, which it is impossible for me to mention in
detail here, but which have been greatly welcomed. It is occasion for
great gratitude and for great hopefulness for the future that with as small
a local field to draw from as this Library possesses, its additions by gift
should equal those of many large city libraries, and that these gifts should
contain so much that is of real and permanent value. We have hardly
yet touched the Oberlin constituency outside of Oberlin, and when once
it is possible to get the Alumni of the institution generally interested in
building up the Library, we may expect a very rapid increase from this
source alone.

Important exchanges of duplicate material in the possession of the
Library have been carried on during the year with the Library of Congress,
the New York Public Library, the Providence Public Library, and the Of-
fice of the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Through the
help of the Library of Congress, we were able to receive a large number
of magazines, which went far toward making our sets complete, sending it
in return a thousand or more numbers of our duplicate magazines toward
making its sets perfect From the New York Public Library we received
WL large number of magazines and books, among which may be mentioned
many volumes of Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States,
nearly completing our set, many years of the scarce and valuable Journal
of Social Science, and nearly all the missing volumes necessary to complete
our set of Statesman's Year Book. From the Providence Public Library
in exchange for a hundred or more volumes of magazines, were received
important local histories, such as Upham's Salem Witchcraft, Records
of the Colony of New Haven, and Yoakum's History of Texas. From the
office of the Superintendent of Documents there came nearly 150 volumes
of the earlier documents of the United States, filling important gaps in our
collection of the documentary literature of the United States Government.

It will be seen from this recital that by means of the generosity of
donors, present and past, it has been possible for us to obtain, by gift and
by exchange, important additions to our collections. This however, should
not close our eyes to the fact that the amount available for the purchase
of new books is altogether inadequate, and barely meets the absolute neces-
sities of the student body, while doing comparatively little toward the
furnishing of a satisfactory equipment for research work to the instructors
of the institution. The appropriation of the Trustees for new books was
unavoidably decreased, for the year under discussion, to $1000.00, which

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with the income of our funds, and gifts from other friends, made our ex-
penditures for new books and periodicals considerably less than $3000.00.
If the Library is to render the service to the institution which it ought to
render, a much greater sum than this should be available for immediate
expenditure. At least $5000.00 per year would be necessary, even if our
Library were in all respects up to date. What seems to be imperatively
needed just now is the gift of a large sum of money to bring our Library
up to date, and then the securing of additional endowment until the amount
available for book purchases can reach the sum of $5000.00 yearly. If
it were possible for us to expend $10,000.00, or better, $20,000.00 a year,
for five years, it would be possible for us to bring our Library up to date,
and if then $5000.00 a year could be expended, we could keep it reasonably
up to date thereafter.

Is there any call which the College can make upon its wealthy friends
which will appeal to them more than one like this, which contemplates
the addition of equipment to bring the instruction of the institution to its
highest efficiency?

I trust this plea may receive your hearty endorsement.

WORK OF THE YEAR

During the year the Library was open 308 days. The total number
of readers for the year was 1x8492. The smallest number of persona
using the Library in any one day was 26 (Sept. loth) ; the largest, 785
(May 24th). The average daily attendance during the school year was
523, during the summer vacation 91. The following table shows the atten-
dance and averages, by months, for the year:

Morninsr

Afternoon

Evening

Total

Avg.

Total

Avg.

Total

Avg.

September

885

1089

146

October

4333

166

4261

164

3109

148

November

4962

198

5102

204

3474

165

December

3774

145

4147

159

2113

151

January

4476

186

4787

199

2773

146

February

4315

187

4629

201

2702

142

March

5235

194

5504

204

4075

177

April

4650

186

4685

195

3554

177

May

5389

199

4913

189

4366

189

June

3923

150

3757

144

2820

142

July

1228

1340

August

1004

X079

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The number of persons drawing books for home use during the year
was 1288; the number of books drawn for circulation outside the building
was 15,614. When the building was opened in the evening, it was necessary
to restrict the circulation of reference and reserved books. Formerly such
books were allowed to leave the Library at 4:30 in the afternoon, but after
the evening opening became a fact, ihey were allowed to leave the Librar>'
only after 9*.oo in the evening. It was expected that this change would
ver>' materially diminish the circulation of books, but this has not proved
to be the case. The number of volumes circulated during the year preced-
ing the evening opening, was 16,156; during the present year, 15,6x4.

The catalogue department catalogued during the year 4508 bound
volumes, and 3739 unbound volumes. This required the preparation of
9636 new cards for the catalogue. In addition, 4518 cards, written in
previous years, were withdrawn from the catalogue, in order to receive
additions or corrections.

GAINS OF THE YEAR

Under this heading, first of all, mention must be made of the new build-
ing, which through the generosity of Mr. Andrew Carnegie is some day
to become a reality. As I suppose you will treat of this matter at length
in your own report, I do no more than to mention it here, and to express the
great satisfaction of the librarian and all associated with him in ,ths
management of the Library, in the prospect for greater efficiency, which
this very generous provision for the library makes possible.

In the actual working of the Library, the great event of the past year
has been the introduction of a thoroughly trained reference librarian. Miss
Antoinette P. Metcalf, a graduate of the Library School of Pratt Institute,
as well as a graduate of Oberlin College, was appointed to this position,
and began work with the beginning of the year now in review. The
librarian arranged his hours, with the additional assistance provided for
his office, so that whenever Miss Metcalf could not be in the room, it was
possible for the librarian to be there, so for the first time since the opening
of this building, at all hours of the day and evening, a member of
the staflF, free from other responsibility, and ready to answer questions,
and give other needed help, was available in the reading room. The re-
sult has shown the wisdom of the decision to provide a reference librarian.
Throughout the year the work sought of her from the students increased,
and it is evident that it will not be longer than until we get into our new
building before the work of caring for the reserved books will have to
be entirely taken from the reference librarian, and given to the delivery

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desk attendant, by reason of the great increase of reference work. There
is an increased demand also coming from graduates and former students
for help, and we are very glad, so far as time and strength permit, to
assist our friends in this way.

Another gain of the year was the rearrangement of the reading room
in such a way that the books reserved by professors for the use of their
classes were brought under supervision. Heretofore, these have been on
open shelves, without supervision, with the result that books were carried
from the building, hidden or kept by a student in order to prevent others
from having an opportunity to make use of them. Our present system,
whereby such books are kept on shelves, under supervision, and for each
book taken a signed card is left with the reference librarian, has worked
to perfection. During the entire year, out of 1,500 books thus reserved, not
more than half a dozen have in any way disappeared, and it has been
possible at any time to tell a student just where a given book could be
found. Many expressions of satisfaction have come from the students at
to the new arrangement. In spite of the inconvenience of 'having to sign
a card for the book, the knowledge that the book could be found, and that
it would not remain in any one's hands an undue length of time, has offset
all the inconvenience. We would not willingly go back to the old ar^
rangement.

At the meeting of the Trustees in November, it was voted that here-
after the Library should be kept open throughout the noon and supper
hours. Although no provision was made for meeting the additional ex-
pense thus involved, the Library staff, by rearrangement of hours, hat
carried the work through the year, and it has undoubtedly been to the stu-
dent body a very real gaic At no time during the hour in which the Li-
brary was formerly closed for supper have there been less than ten or
fifteen students at work, showing that the opening met a real want The
Library is now open from 7:15 in the morning until 9:30 at night

Although in my last report I stated that there was no space in the
building for additional shelving, the demand for additional shelf-room
compelled the searching out and finding of the few places still remaining,
in which it was possible to put shelves. Space was discovered over one or
two windows, and against the side of a chimney, and in this way spice
for perhaps 1,000 additional volumes was secured, where it was greatly
needed, in. the third story of the building. With this relief, and one other
possible source of relief, it is hoped that the Library will contain the
books now likely to come to it, until the new building is erected.

Pressure for more places for readers in the reading room, especially

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during the spring months, was very great Accordingly, during the sum-
mer, additional tables were provided in the reading room, filling every
available nook and comer, until now it is possible to seat one hundred and
fifty readers at one time, a gain of twenty-five over last year. It is hoped
that with this relief, the reading room will prove sufficient until the new
building is available. This additional seating capacity, however, only
emphasizes the necessity of doing something for the ventilation of the
present reading room. On this problem the Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds is at work, and it is hoped that some inexpensive but effect-
ive method of providing ventilation for the present room can be obtained
during the present school year.

This survey of the year re\'eals many things for which there is occa-
sion for thankfulness. With the prospect of a new buildidg, and with the
additional endowment for which Mr. Carnegie has wisely made provision,
the future of the Library ought to be one of still greater usefulness.

Respectfully submitted,

AZARIAH S. ROOT.

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Report of the Dean of the Theological
Seminary

To the President:

Sir — So full a statement of the Seminary situation was made in my
last report that a briefer one will suffice this year. The work of the year
X904-05 went on well. The students that we attract are always men
who are ready for Tiard work and are not induced to come by an oflFcr
of free beneficiary aid. The readiness of the men to work, their loyalty
to the Seminary, the good fellowship among the students and between the
student body and the Faculty, make the life of a teacher a pleasant one.

Professor Kemper Fullerton, who took the Old Testament Chair last
fall, has been conspicuously successful. His elective classes have been
very large; the scholarly character of his work and the charm of his per-
sonality have won for him the enthusiastic regard of the entire student
body.

The Slavic Department suffers from the fact that no national super-
intendent of the Slavic work has been appointed by the Congregational
Home Missionary Society to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr.
Schauffler. The students for the Slavic Department have to be discovered
one by one, and it is the Superintendent who makes these discoveries.
The Slavic Department Committee has secured from the Congregational
Educational Society the promise of an annual appropriation of $1,600 for
the support of the Department. While this appropriation is not enough
to run the Department, it is a steady asset and an indispensable help.

In the student employment fund, from which self-supporting stu-
dents are paid for missionary work in the vicinity, there was no deficit
at the close of the year. In addition to the efforts of Professor Currier
and myself this result was largely due to Mr. Charles W. Williams,
Assistant to the President. I am under obligation to yourself and to Mr.
Williams for the assurance that I need no longer concern myself about
the financial interests of the Seminary. It had become evident that the
full work of the New Testament Department and the administrative work
of the Dean's office were the utmost that I could do.

The year has opened well this fall. The large gain in attendance
that was made last year is substantially held. The attendance for the

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jrear in the three regular classes last year was 40. There are already 38
enrolled in the three regular classes, and there will probably be one or
two more by the time the catalogue appears. The total enrollment last
3rear was 52; and by the beginning of the second semester this year it
will be about the same. The number enrolled at this date is 48. A year
ago I was sanguine that there would this year be another gain in attend-
ance, but before last year closed it was evident that this would not be the
case. I hope that there will be a gain next year. We shall, however,
graduate this year a class of 19, which is an unusually large number, and
it may not be possible to add more than will fill their places. Our aban-
donment of the lecture system and our adoption of a method of instruc-
tion that requires close personal supervision of the work of each student
makes it seem undesirable to have the attendance in the three regular
classes much exceed 60.

An encouraging fact about the attendance is the growth of each
class during its course. The class of 1906 increased from 14 in its Junior
year to 19 in its Senior year; the class of 1905 from 8 to 11; the class
of 1904 from 5 to 8; the class of 1903 from 9 to 11. The present Junior
class numbers 8.

We draw men from a widely scattered constituency. The students in
the Seminary this fall come from eighteen states and five foreign coun-
tries, and include in their number graduates from twenty-two colleges.

The walls of the corridors of Council Hall have been improved by
paint and alabastine. Considerable money ought soon to be spent upon
the building and the refurnishing of students' rooms. There is one great-
ly needed improvement in the building to which I wish to call particular
attention. An expenditure of from $3,000 to $4,000 would transform the
present "Council Hall Chapel,*' with its squeaky chairs and dreary walls,
into a churchly aitdience room with pews, pulpit and organ. The stu-
dents would preach better in such a room and we should have a place to
which we should not be ashamed to invite lecturers from abroad.

Through the generosity of Mr. Alfred Gillett, of Oberlin, the Sem-
inary has received a gift of $5,000, subject to an annuity. Mr. Gillett has
long been interested in the Seminary and has expressed his interest in
contributions before. Mrs. Helen Finney Cox has placed in the Dean's
Office, which is the room earlier endowed by General and Mrs. Cox in
memory of President Finney, a very fine portrait of President Finney. It
will be an inspiration to hundreds of students.
Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD I. BOSWORTH.

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Report of the Dean of College Men

To the President:

Sir — ^Thc total eDrollment of men in the College department for
the past year was 294, divided as follo^vs:

Post graduates 12

Seniors 54

Juniors 55

Sophomores 69

Freshmen 85

Specials 19

294

This is an increase of fifteen men over the preceding year and is the
largest number of men ever enrolled in the College department for a
single year.

The number of men in the Freshman class shows an apparent de-
crease of nine, but ten of the special students ranked as Freshmen, so in
fact the number is about the same as for the preceding year and is con-
siderably larger than in any class prior to 1903-04.

Eight men were compelled to give up their College work during the
year. Three Freshmen and one Sophomore had to leave because of illness,
the other four men because of illness, or death at home, or for financial
reasons.

In three of the four cases of illness the students were affected when
they entered school and were not able to continue the work. The other
case was not one of contagious disease, but the result 6i a severe cold.

Two men of the Freshman class were advised to leave because of ir-
regularity in class attendance and unsatisfactory work. One man was
given honorable dismission because of our >rule against the use of tobacca

There have been few cases of discipline during the year and they
have been individual in their nature, with but one exception. At the
time of the Thanksgiving parties, an attempt was made to kidnap the
president of the Sophomore class and keep him from his class. He was
seized and kept during a portion of the evening. The men who were in-
strumental in this were, after careful consideration, not placed under dis-
cipline, the men of the four College classes sending to me the following
letter:

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''Dear Sir: Tuesday noon, the men of the four College classes met
and passed the following resolution:

** *Be it resolved that we, the men of 1905 (or 1906, 1907 or 1908) will
hereafter absolutely refuse as a class to endorse hazing/ This action was
taken freely and the resolution was passed unanimously in every class.

**We, the undersigned, were appointed at these meetings, to represent
our several classes. We tender this resolution to you with the conviction
that such action at this time shows that out of present difficulties has come
a definite student sentiment against any hazing in Oberlin College."

The letter is signed by a committee of three from each class. In view
of this voluntary action and in consideration of the fact that it was felt
that the Freshman class had been taunted into doing what they did, no
disciplinary action was taken.

While the figures submitted above show an increase in the total num-
ber of men, the percentage of men in comparison with the women in the
College department shows a decided decrease. The figures are as follows:

Total Men

1901-02 499 242 48.5%

I902-Q3 578 267 46.2%

1903-04 633 279 44.1%

1904-05 670 294 43-9%

The figures for the Fall semester 1905-06 arc as follows:

Total Men

696 291 41.8%

In four years there has been an increase of 197 students, 148 of whom
"were women, and 49 men, 24 per cent, of the increase being men.

The number of men asking for honorable dismission this Fall has been
exceptionally large. Seventeen such letters have been granted up to this
time. In the majority of cases the students were changing in order to get
professional or technical courses that are not oflFered here.

The addition of some shop work and technical courses, and a build-
ing distinctively for men would do much to lessen the disparity between
the sexes and to keep here many of those who now leave for other schools.

It is not strange that the number of women is larger than that ot
men. Much more has been done to attract them here. The Dormitories
and Sturges Hall are solely women's buildings, while the Warner Gym-
nasium is the only building solely for the use of men.

The number of men in the Freshman class for 1904-05, counting
specials who ranked a? Freshmen, was 95, while the number of men in the

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Sophomore class this Fall is 62, three of whom are men coming from
other institutions. This shows a loss of 36 from last year's Freshman
class. The reasons, so far as I have been able to find them, are as fol-
lows:

Other schools 9

Sickness 4

Lack of money 2

Business reasons 6

Unsatisfactory 3

Dropped back 1

Advanced a class 2

Teaching 2

Honorable dismission and because of tobacco rule. 1

Reasons unknown 5

At home, return next semester 1

Total 36

Of the ten special students ranked as Freshmen, seven have not re-
turned.

There were 67 Sophomore men during the year 1904-05. The Junior
class this fall contains 61 men, but 12 of these were not enrolled as Soph-
omores last year. That is, there were 18 men enrolled as Sophomores
who are not now members of the Junior class. The reasons are given
below :

other schools 7

Business 4

Sickness 2

Advanced a class 3

Dropped back a class 1

Death of parents 1

Total 18

Last year's Sophomores, now Juniors 49

Not enrolled as Juniors 18

Sophomore class 1904-05 67

The twelve men whose names appear as Juniors, who were not en-
rolled as Sophomores, are accounted for as follows:

From other collesres 4

Former student returned 1

Classed special last year 3

Dropped back a year 3

Advanced a year 1

Total 12

Sophomores, last year 49

Present Junior class 61

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I have given these figures for the Freshmen and Sophomore years
because most of the losses occur then and a record of the reasons kept
over a period of years may suggest a remedy.

Last year's report suggested some form of student organization to
confer with the executive officers of the College concerning matters of
college polity. While no formal report has been received it is understood
that the students have taken steps tov^ard forming some such organization.
I feel that the College will make a distinct gain if the Faculty and stu-
dents can confer in some such way as this.

My own work for the year has of necessity been largely personal and
of a character- difficult to report. A more thorough acquaintance has given
me greater opportunity for influence among the men, and this more inti-
mate knowledge has confirmed my belief in the character and manliness
of college men.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD A. MILLER,

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Report of the Women's Department

To the President:

Sir — ^The enrollment of women for the academic year 1904-05 waa
1,063, distributed as follows:

College 376

Conservatory 472

Academy 148*

Art 24

Summer School 43

These statistics show an encouraging increase in both College and
Academy, and a slight decrease in the Conservatory, due to the persistent
efforts of that department to discourage the attendance of those who are
unable or indisposed to do full and thorough work. Although these fig-
ures show a larger total for the Conservatory, the average term enroll-
ment is a little in favor of the College.

The health record for the year has been unusually good. There was
very little sickness, even in light forms, and no serious illness. Several
women were obliged to give up their work because of poor health or
weak eyes; but they were mostly new students unable to stand- the strain
of college life, rather than older ones suffering because of any conditions
here.

No serious cases of discipline have come before the Women's Board;
no one was expelled or suspended; and most of such minor difficulties as
have arisen, have been handled individually and quietly by the Deans.

The most unfortunate event of the year was the partial destruction
of Baldwin Cottage by fire on January 31. Arrangements were made to
transfer the entire household to the Park Hotel, where the remaining
eight weeks of the Winter term were passed very comfortably. It was a
great satisfaction that the Cottage was ready for occupancy at the begin-
ning of the Spring term. There were very few alterations made, but the
house was improved by being wired throughout for electric lights, and in
some other minor matters.

The greatest problem confronting the Deans of Women, and one
which increafes in seriousness every year, is that of providing suitable
homes for our young women. Dr. Luce urged the consideration of this

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matter upon the Trustees two years ago. Since that time the enrollment
of women has increased nearly twelve per cent. The accommodations pro-
vided by the College have not been enlarged, and only two houses of any
considerable size have been added to our list of approved houses, — and
this, not because of any unwillingness on our part, or failure to find de-
sirable women for matrons, but because no suitable houses could be rented.

Upon our approved list there stood last year 50 houses, accommoda-
ting 525 young women. The four College halls can receive 166, and 7
lived at Keep Home. There came to us from homes in Oberlin or adjoin-
ing towns, 180, 95 of these being Conservatory students, 46 College, 28
Academy, and 11 Art. After accounting for as many as possible in these
ways, we are left with a surplus of 185. This is explained in part by the
fact that some of our students do not remain the entire year; yet not al-
together, as the enrollment this fall comes almost withfn one hundred of
the total enrollment for last year. These facts mean that the boarding
houses must be over-crowded and that every available room must be oc-
cupied; and that even then many are scattered by ones and twos wherever
we can find places. Students arriving on registration day without having
made their arrangements previously, found themselves confronted with
the necessity of taking the one remaining place at the price they could
afford to pay, whether pleased with it or not, or, worse yet, forced to pay
more than they felt was right

In view of these facts, I wish to raise the question very seriously
whether the time has not come when we must have more halls of resi-
dence belonging to the College, — whether, to state the matter definitely
and concisely, it would not be feasible and wise to use some of the in-
vested funds of the College for the erection of such buildings and then
charge such prices as would make them yield an adequate income, — say
5 per cent, — on the money invested.

I recognize fully the urgency of other needs; therefore I would noi
request the solicitation of funds for new boarding halls. But if funds al-
ready in the possession of the College can be so utilized as to yield an ade-
quate income and at the same time meet this most pressing claim of our
students for comfortable and refined homes, it would seem a wise policy;
and a somewhat careful study of the situation leads me to believe this
not impracticable.

The plan would be for the construction of less expensive buildings
than Talcott Hall and Baldwin Cottage, and then a sufficient increase in
the prices at these two buildings to make them fair investments. In-
vestigation shows that the extra charge should be for board, as the table

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scarcely pays for itself, and we are not willing to provide poorer meaK
As it now is, as Mr. Severance states, *'The room rent of the girls is lia-
ble to pay part of the board bill of the boys."

May I ask your attention to the following figures: Talcott Hall, cost
of building and furnishing, $62,000, has yielded for the past seven years
an average income of 2 2-3 per cent. An increase of 50 cents in the price
of board, making it $3.25, would mean an income of 6 7-10 per cent.

Baldwin Cottage,— cost $37,000, yields 7-10 per cent. An increase of
50 cents for board and 25 cents for room would add 33-4 per cent, — a to-
al income of 4 9-20 per cent.

After some conference with a real estate agent and an architect, I beg
leave to submit the following estimate for a new residence hall, to ac-
commodate fifty women, and thirty men for meals:

Construction $30,000

Land (200 ft. x 20 ft) 4f000

Furnishings 4*000

$38,000
Interest at 5% $ 1,900

Taking the actual figures from Baldwin Cottage and Talcott Hall and
making such combinations as the difference in size of the buildings ne-
cessitates, the estimated expense connected with the table board and care of
the parlors is $95 a year; the expense for heating and lighting the up-
stairs and keeping the furnishings in repair averages $20 for each resi-
dent. These items and the matron's salary would give as the total expense
of the maintenance of such a house, $9,200.

A charge of $3.00 for each boarder and $1.50 extra for each resident,
would bring in receipts amounting to $11,340, giving a surplus of $240
after paying 5 per cent, interest.

80 X $95 $7,600 80 X 3 X 36. .$8,640 Board

50 X $20 1,000 50 X 1.50 X 36. . 2,700 Room rent

Salary 600

$11,340 Receipts
Expenses $9,200 9»2oo Expenses

$2,140 Balance

One such building would be a little help, but would not materially
relieve the situation nor make it wise, probably, to raise the price at Tal-
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It may not be possible, in the immediate future, to invest sufficient fundi
in four or five such buildings, to accommodate two hundred to two hun-
dred and fifty students. To insure still more fully the financial success
of the enterprise, as well as to simplify the administration, it would seem
wise to have the buildings located together, with a central kitchen behind,
connected with each hall. One purveyor could thus do the buying and
planning for all. A plan similar to this is in operation at Chicago Uni-
versity. It is perhaps not necessary at this time to take up the discussion
of many of the minor details which have been under consideration, but
there seem no serious difficulties in this plan.

The problem of. discipline would also be greatly Simplified, if we
were thus able to house a larger proportion of our students in College halls.
Moreover, it might be possible to devote one of the new buildings to the
use of the Academy women. The experiment of having an Academy
house has proved so satisfactory, that this year a second one has been
given up to them. It would be a natural step in advance and, I am sure,
a great gratification, both to Mr. Peck and Mrs. Fargo, if a larger place
could soon be provided. It would also make possible some different leg-
islation for Academy girls, if this should seem desirable; and would hel]>
develop for that department the separate life which seems so advisable
and to which Mrs. Fargo's appointment has contributed so much.

It is worth remarking that with the suggested increase of price at
Talcott Hall and Baldwin Cottage, with a possible slight advance at Lord
Cottage and Stewart Hall, if deemed advisable because of the higher
prices of food supplies, and with new accommodations for two hundred
at prices ranging from four to five dollars, and averaging four and a
half, the expenses for the student in College halls would still average
some fifteen cents less than that paid last year by students in private fam-
ilies, and five cents less than the average paid by all students. Moreover^
we could then reasonably expect a slight decrease in the town prices rath-
er than the steady rise observable at present. The prices in our halls are
much lower than those of most dormitories in colleges of the standing of
Oberlin — ^the charge per week at Mount Holyoke being over thirty cents
more than it would be here on this new plan. And while we never wish
to forget or fail to provide for the student of limited means, we have an
ever-increasing number of students who spend from five to eight hundred
dollars a year and could just as well pay what the home they find here
is worth.

The effect upon our present matrons is naturally one of the points
that must be considered, for we would not wish to destroy the* pleasant

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relation which has always existed between the College and the town.
Perhaps the bare statement that there would still be as many women to be
accemmodated in private families as there were four or five years ago,
will allay any anxiety pn this point.

This evidence of the increased enrollment of women naturally sug-
gests the perhaps greater objection, that to add to our halls of residence
would tend to add even more rapidly to the proportion of women. The
question in our minds, however, is not the encouragement of more women,
but merely proper care for those we have. We shall be most willing, if
the Trustees so desire, to say that when the desirable places are filled, we
will receive no more students, placing the limit at whatever enrollment
may seem wisest and adopting whatever restrictions may be expedient.

A few facts gathered by correspondence with five of the prominent
eastern colleges, may not be without interest in this connection. The small-
est proportion of students accommodated in the College halls is something
over one-half at Smith. The charges range from $4.86 a week at Mount
Holyoke, to $9.22 at Vassar. Wellesley has the most carefully planned sys-
tem of common buying and planning. At three of the five, endowment
funds have been used in the buildings, some of which pay a handsome re-
turn, although more expensive structures than we should contemplate.

Another possible suggestion which seems worthy of careful considera-
tion is whether Keep Home might not be utilized to greater advantage
than at present. The number of young women boarding themselves ihere
has been decreasing every year, until now there are but five, three of whom
plan to leave soon. An income of two dollars and a half a week — (fifty
cents from each girl) — from a building which could easily accommodate
eighteen or twenty students, seems wasteful indeed. The building is old,
but in fairly good condition, and the rooms are pleasant If some ar-
rangement for heating other than stoves could be introduced, and a few
slight changes made to provide a suitable dining room and kitchen, the
house could be run on a co-operative plan, each girl doing her share of
the work and defraying her part of the expenses, at an increase of little
or any over the present cost of living there. It is believed that the house
would meet a great need for comfortable, inexpensive quarters and be
easily filled ; and I venture to say that it would prove a less expensive in-
vestment than at present.

One of the most perplexing phases of this difficult problem has been
the housing of our colored students. I am glad to be able to report that
the opening of a new and very pleasant house by Mrs. Norris has met
the immediate need in this direction quite adequately.

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Many evening visits at the various boarding houses have made ap-
parent the need of some College inspection of our lighting plant. In houses
where gas is used, the light is seldom adequate, and I believe much of
the trouble our students have with their eyes may be traced to this cause.

The results of the first yearns work under the new plan of administra-
tion through three Deans have seemed to justify the change. A more thor-
ough acquaintance, and therefore a more perfect understanding of the
needs of the individual women, and a better adaptation of our methods to
these needs, have been made possible. The young women are increasingly
learning that the Deans are primarily their friends, and only secondarily
disciplinary officers. The spirit of loyalty and co-operation has been all
we could reasonably ask; the interest in student government seems to be
making some advance; and the increasingly efficient work of the Young
Women's Christian Association proves a material assistance in many phas-
es of our work.

The monthly General Exercises have given opportunities to touch
student thought and influence student sentiment, and have been quite en-
thusiastically received by the young women themselves as occasions for
better acquaintance with their Deans. The monthly meetings of the Wo-
men's Board have made possible not only the consideration of such mat-
ters of discipline as needed attention, but also careful conferences in re-
gard to many phases of our work.

It is therefore with a spirit of hope and enthusiasm, in spite of the
perplexities, that we take up the work of this second year.

Respectfully submitted,

FLORENCE M. FITCH.

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Report of the Registrar

To tht President:

Sir — ^The enrolnient in the CoUege for the year 1 904.-05 was as fol-
lows:

Men Women Total

Graduates xa 4 x6

Seniors 54 58 xxa

Juniors 55 7a laj

Sophomores 69 94 163

Freshmen 85 X15 aoo

Special Students 19 33 5a

«94 S76 670

The following degrees were conferred during the year 1904-05:

In course Men Womsii Totel

A.M 4 a 6

A.B 54 61 Z15

58 63 121

Upon completion of prescribed work:

A.M X I 2

Out of the one hundred and fifteen students receiving the degree A.B.
three belonged to other classes, their degrees not having been issued for
various reasons.

It may be of interest to note some statistics of the graduating class of
Z904-05. Of the 170 who entered College in 1901, only 69 were graduated
in 1905. The following table shows the losses and gains during the four
years, 1901 to 1905:

Class of igofy Admitted to College, September, iQor.

Men Women Total
Number of Members 79 91 170

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x<7

Losses

Left College during or at end of Freshman year. .
Left College daring or at end of Sophomore year. .

Left College during or at end of Junior year

Entered a lower class

Entered a higher class

Classed Senior, failed to complete the work for
the degree A.B

Men Women Total

«3

Total loss

Gains

From higher classes

From lower classes

Admitted after the Freshman year

From Special Students

Total gain 19 34 43

Net loss 27 31 5S

Of the seventy-seven students who left College before the Senior year,
the majority are accounted for, as shown in the following table:

To enter other ooUeflree

To enter Oberlin Conservatory of Miisic

To go into business

To encase in teaching

To go into f oreism missionary work

Because of previous plan

Lack of money

Poor health

Poor scholarship, not encouraged to return •

Married, not allovred to return

Dissatisfied in Oberlin

Died.

No reason known.

Men

Women Total

6
1

1
1

1
9
8
2

1
1
17

2
2

1
4

10
3
6
2
2

Doubtless classes vary in the gains and losses somewhat, but this ta-
ble may fairly be taken to illustrate the variation in any class during the
four years in College. It will be observed that there is very little loss
after the beginning of the Junior year, and gains are not at all infrequent
during the last two years of the course. This fact is particularly notice-
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to us seven new students, who enter the Senior class, and thirteen, who en-
ter the Junior class. The colleges from which these students come arc
as follows: University of Missouri, Dakota Wesley an University, Carle-
ton College, Yankton College, Central College, Monmouth College, Berea
College, Ohio State University, Amherst College, The Western, Iowa
Wesleyan University, Greenville College, Olivet College, South Dakota
Agricultural College, Vincennes University, Bradley Polytechnic Insti-
tute, University of Wisconsin, University of California, University of the
City of New York, and Tabor College.

We always meet with large losses among the Unclassified or Special
Students. This may be expected to some extent, for those who plan four
years of study in College naturally enter a regular College class. But it
is safe to say, that where one student, upon his admission to College, be-
gins to specialize in his work with any definite end in view, there are five
who choose to be ranked as Special Students in order to avoid some of the
work required of candidates for a degree. Last year, of the fifty-one
Special Students, fourteen elected Chemistry, twenty, English, and eleven,
History, to a greater or less extent, while many of these and other stu-
dents elected for the larger part of their work. Freshman courses, omitting
perhaps Mathematics or a Language.

Comparatively few Special Students return for further study. The
following table illustrates this:

Special Students

Men Women Total
In attendance during the year 1903-04 14 27 41

Left College before the end of the year 2 a

Left College at the end of the year 8 22 30

8 24 33

Entered a College class in Fall of 1904 3 3 6

Re-entered as Special Students in Fall of 1904 3 3

639
Another matter of much interest is the tendency shown by Freshmen
in their choice of electives. Besides the three required courses in English
Composition, Mathematics, and Bible, they may elect any two from the
following group: Latin, Greek, German, French, Science ( either Botany
or Zoology).

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For the year 1904-os, for the two hundred Freshmen, the choice of
electives is shown in the table below:

Number of Students Electing Freshman Latin 85

Academy Latin 27

** " " *' Advanced Greek 17

" " '♦ Beginning Greek 15

" " " " Advanced German 91

** " " " Beginning German 33

" '* " " Advanced French 10

" " " " Beginning French 31

Science 46

By far the most frequent combination of electives with this class was
Latin and German, with Science and one modem language ranking sec-
ond.

I should like to give more definite data concerning scholarship than
I am able to collect at this time. My decided conviction is, that the stand-
ard maintained is high, and that much genuinely scholarly work is done.
The Committee on Failure in Scholarship, during the last few years, hai
rendered valuable assistance in keeping the standard high, and also, by
timely warnings and helpful counsel in adjusting work, has saved many
from utter failure.

The work in the Registrar's Office is involved; the duties and inter-
ests, many and varied. It is our earnest purpose to make the office as use-
ful and as really valuable to both the Faculty and Students as possible.
The large increase of sixty per cent in number of College students during
the last five years, makes a very vita! difference in the work in the office.
Our greatest need is more permanent assistance than can be obtained when
depending entirely upon students with their many engagements. The stu-
dent assistance is efficient and all that it can be, but it will readily
be seen that several consecutive hours of work are of far greater value
than an equal number of separate hours. Another great disadvantage in
depending entirely upon students for help, is this, that after one, two, or
three years of work, when they arc really very valuable helpers, they grad-
uate from College and new assistants must be secured and trained. I feel
certain that the work in the office would be more efficient, and that many
valuable and helpful things might be accomplished, which now have to
be put off, were this change made.

As is well known many of our records were destroyed in the chapel

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fire. Fragments of partly burned books were dug out of the ashes, and all
such records that could be deciphered have been entered upon cards. The
need of a card catalogue to all existing records seemed more imperative
than ever; so for the last year and a half we have been working on such
a catalogue. It is not yet completed but the work is going on as rapidly
as may be, and we trust that it may be of permanent value to the Col-
lege. Respectfully submitted,

FLORA ISABEL WOLCOTT.

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Report of the Director of the
Conservatory

r« ihi Prtstdeut:

Snt — No change in the Conservatory has given such general satis-
faction to teachers and students alike as the enlargement of Warner Con-
cert Hall. It was first opened for public use on January xoth by a con-
cert given by the Conservatory Faculty before an invited audience. It
■ow meets perfectly every need for the Conservatory concerts, and has
been greatly admired by many distinguished artists for its perfect acous-
ttci and its aesthetic beauty.

The Great Organ not only appears to mach better advantage in ii:.
new setting, but the volume of its tone is greatly hKcreaaed by tiie ample
room afforded.

The Conservatory has been fortunate in keeping essentially the same
personnel each year as its faculty. Some changes are to be noted, but they
are the addition of new names, rather than the loss of those we have. This
3rear three of our members are in Europe for further study. Professor
P. G. Doolittle, of the Violin Department, has joined his wife and family
in Berlin. Mr. Herbert Harroun, of the Vocal Department, is also in Ber-
lin. Mr. B. H. Davis has entered the Leipzig Conservatory for several
years' study in preparation for a concert pianist.

Three new appointments were necessary to carry on our work. Mr.
Richard Jose Ferrer and Miss Caroline Harter, violinists, and Miss Ada
Morris, pianist. Mr. Ferrer has enjoyed the best advantages afforded in
Europe for his musical education. He was for four years a pupil of the
Hoch Schule in Berlin, holds a diploma from the Brussels Conservatory,'
and afterwards was a private pupil of Isaye.

Miss Harter has a most enviable reputation as a violinist. Her first
study abroad was with Marsick of Paris. She then entered the Geneva
Conservatory, and after two years of work under Henri Marteau as her
master, she was given the Diploma de Virtuosite. We are fortunate in
having two such brilliant teachers of the modern French school of violin
playing, since at the present time it takes the lead in the artistic world.

Miss Morris was a student here in the Conservatory for several years.

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and was known as the best pianist of her class. She has since studied
in the Leipzig Conservatory, and privately with Godowski in Berlin. The
influence of such thoroughly trained and talented artists will be felt
throughout the Conservatory.

The growth and increasing efficiency of the Conservatory Orchestra
is one of the most gratifying signs of a larger and more versatile musical
life. It numbers 35 members, and furnishes, not only admirable accom-
paniments for the best work of our pianists, vocalists and violinists, but
is playing with fine artistic effect Overtures, Symphonies and Suites. With
the enthusiastic support of Mr. Ferrer and Miss Harter, Dr. Andrews as
its director, will secure better results than ever yet attained.

Facilities for teaching all Orchestral instruments, together with first-
class Orchestral drill, will bring us more young men than any other work
we can offer. *

A new course in the study of how to listen to music has been offered
to College students who wish to obtain the culture and refinement of mu-
sic, but who have no time for the technical study of any musical instru-
ment. The best programs will be critically analyzed and studied, and the
performances of teachers and pupils, together with a copious use of the
pianola, will be utilized to acquaint the students with the best work in
musical literature. Professor Dickinson offers this course. His scholarly
knowledge of the subject makes him the ideal man to impart this particu-
lar kind of instruction.

Two new works have been written by members of our Faculty dur-
ing the last year: "The Study of the History of Music," published by
Scribners, is the fruit of the partial vacation from full work enjoyed by
Professor Dickinson, and will no doubt reach as wide a circle of readers,
and receive as unstinted praise, as his "History of Music in the Western
Church," published by the same firm a few years ago. JProfessor Heacox
and Mr. Lehmann have jointly compiled a new text-book on Harmony
for the use of their classes.

Some significant changes may be noted by reference to our last pub-
lished catalogue, where, by recommendation of the Trustees, students are
classified according to their literary standing. Almost 25 per cent of the
whole number are of college rank. Taking out the many children of the
town, whose names are listed, the per cent would be still higher. The
fact that we have fewer names in the last than in the preceding catalogue,
but that each separate term registers more students in actual attendance,
shows conclusively that fewer come for a short period of study, and that
more thorough and advanced work is being accomplished.

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The following musical organizations and distinguished artists have
contributed to our concerts during the past year:
Pittsburg Orchestra.
Cincinnati Orchestra.
Theodore Thomas Orchestra.
Kneisel Quartette.

Mr. Joseph Hoffman, Pianist.

Mr. Alexander Guilmant, Organist.

Mr. Jose V. Da Motta, Pianist.

Mrs. Ella Russell, Soprano.

Mrs. Charlotte Maconda, Soprano.

Nlrs. Katharine Fiske, Contralto.

Dr. Ion Jackson, Tenor.

Mr. Arthur Beresford, Basso.

Mr. Geo. Devoll, Tenor.

Mr. Edwin Isham, Baritone.

Mr. Karl Grienauer, Violoncellist.

Mrs. Fish GriflBn, Soprano.

Miss Genevieve Wheat, Contralto.

Mr. David Bispham, Baritone.

Mr. Ellison Van Hoose, Tenor.

Mr. Wm. Beard, Basso.

Mr. Kramer, Violinist.

Mr. Wm. H. Sherwood, Pianist.

Mrs. Elizabeth Blodgett, Soprano.

Mr. H. P. Cole, Tenor.

Mr. Marion Green, Tenor.

Mrs. Louise Homer, Contralto.

Mrs. Anna Wanamaker, Soprano.

Mr. Wm. Harper, Basso.
Without the unusual charm and inspiration given by the visit of
such artists, Oberlin would be a far less desirable place of residence for
a musician, and we should have great difficulty in retaining the services
of the men and women at present in our faculty.

Table shoimng the number of students during the year:

Women Men Total

Fall 1904 480 loi 581

Winter 1905 475 iii 586

Spring 1905 42a 79 501

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Table showing the number of students in both Conservatory and other

departments:

Conserva-
tory and Classed
other de- Conserva- Classed Conservatory

partments tory elsewhere alone

Fall 1904 209 460 121 372

Winter 1905 220 464 122 366

Spring 1905 192 389 107 316

Table shoiving the branches taught, *with the number of students in each:

Fall Winter Spring

1904 1905 1906

Harmony 4 257 207 1^4

Counterpoint, Canon and Fugiie 5 6 5

Composition 7 6 5

Harmonic Analysis and Musical Form 11 20 17

Ear Training 44 85 73

History of Music 83 85 72

Pianoforte 460 457 380

Organ 77 77 69

Singing 264 280 256

Violin, 'Cello and Double Bass.... 47 51 36

Wind Instruments 3 5 i

Public School Music 32 41 44

In various ways the general standard for admission is being gradu-
ally raised.

In answering letters a good deal of judicious sifting out is done by
insisting upon more thorough preparation before undertaking the exclusive
study of music and making it clear that all will be held strictly to full
work. Those* who are deficient in musical ability, who neglect their work,
or in other ways seem undesirable members of the Institution, are re-
quested not to return.

For several years past the teachers have reported the talent and prog-
ress of each pupil at the close of the term in each branch of study. Per-
manent records of these are made and are open for reference at the
Dean's office.

Respectfully submitted,

C. W. MORRISON.

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Report of the Principal of Oberlin
Academy

To the President:

Sir — It may be of interest to the Trustees to know something of the
roethocis employed in the Academy office, to bring the Academy to the
knowledge of young people, and to induce them to become students at
Oberlin. Last spring letters were sent out to all the teachers of common
schools within a reasonable distance of Oberlin. These letters inquired
whether the teachers would give the names of any students who might be
interested in further study after they had completed the work done in the
district schools. Later, letters were sent to the principals of most of the
second and third grade high schools in the northern part of the state.
None of these schools fit students for college. A request was made for
the names of all of their graduates of the current year. In these wa3rs,
about 1,500 names were secured. To each one of these young people there
was sent a copy of the Academy Calendar, a copy of a circular, giving
reasons for further study, which might appeal to young people, and set*
ting forth the advantages of Oberlin. A personal letter was also sent to
each individual, asking for further correspondence. It is yet too early to
judge of the result of this work, but it seems clear that it is an effort in
the right direction.

During the last few years, an attempt has been made to emphasise
somewhat more the Academy, as a separate body of students, with its own
interests. For two years a separate Academy catalogue has been printed.
This last summer, a separate book of Academy legislation has been ar-
ranged, and put into the hands of the Academy students. The Academy
societies have been encouraeed, and they are hawng a healthy develop-
ment A joint debate with the Oberlin High School was arranged last
year, and it is the hope that this debate may be a permanent feature of
the secondary school life at Oberlin. Separate athletic teams have been
maintained in foot-ball, basket-ball, and base-ball. The boys of the Acad-
emy %'ery much desire to have these teams, and take hold of ihem with
much spirit. In all these movements, however, the difficulty is largely a
financial one. Some twelve years ago, an effort was made to develop
and maintain these athletic teams. No means was found, however, for
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two years the principal of the Academy and the coach paid the deficit*
and then the matter was dropped again. The same difficulty faces the
management of the athletic teams now. The entire town is thoroughly
worked in the support of the regular varsity teams. Even they find it
difficult to secure the money necessary for their maintenance. A large and
flourishing high school, with its varied interests, also appeals to the peo-
ple of the town, and secures a good portion of their support. The Acad-
emy has a very small constituency outside of its own students, to whom
it can appeal. Even the Academy students give largely to the support
of the college teams. A deficit in the management has developed with
each year. It was this condition of aflFairs which led the boys of the
Academy last spring, enthusiastically, and almost unanimously, to pre-
sent a request that they be charged two dollars a year, with their term
bills, for the maintenance of the Academy athletics. This is by no means
a new method of settling these difficulties. It is a practice quite frequent
among the secondary private schools of the country, only the fees are two
or three times as large as those proposed for Oberlin Academy. It is
still the very earnest wish of both students and Faculty in the Academy,
that this plan be given a fair trial. If it seems wise to make an effort
to emphasize the Academy as an institution, it is absolutely necessary that
some means be found of meeting the expense thus involved. It is the
clear judgment of all those interested in the Academy, that this is the
most feasible way of raising this money. The careful attention of the
Trustees is again asked to this matter.

Two separate Academy boarding houses are now maintained. Each
of these houses accommodates about a dozen girls, with rooms and board,
and nearly an equal number of boys are provided with table board.
There seems to be no suitable house available for use, as a house for
boys alone. An effort was made to induce some citizen of the town to
open his house particularly to boys of the Academy, and for a time, the
eflFort seemed likely to succeed. Finally, however, through the fault of no
one, the project failed. A further effort will be made in this same di«*
rection. Respectfully submitted,

JOHN FISHER PECK.

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Report of the Chairman of the Summer

School

To the President:

Sir — 1 oflFcr the following report of the Summer School for 1905:
The session was of the usual length, beginning June 29 and closing Au<
gust 18. The enrollment was 142, 25 more than last year, and the largest
in the history of the school. About one-third of this number were men.

Of the thirty-five courses offered there were six Academy, five Nor-
mal, and twenty-four College courses. Instruction was given by members
of the Faculty, with the addition in Academy English of Miss Esther C.
Ward, of the Steubenville High School; in Ethics and Psychology, of
Miss Harriet E. Penfield, of Rockford College ;in Economics and Sociol-
ogy, of Professor F. A. Bushee, of the Collegiate Department of Clark
University; in the Normal courses of Miss S. W. Smith, Supervisor of
Primary Instruction in the Lorain Public Schools; Mr. D. J. Boone, Princi-
pal of the Garden Avenue School, Lorain; Mr. J. H. Smith, teacher of
Physiography in the Chicago High Schools.

While only four of the students devoted themselves exclusively to nor-
mal work, the election in normal courses was somewhat larger than last
year; and the deficit, which last year amounted to $112.00, was this year
reduced to $87.50. Although this amount, which is drawn from the
Trustees' Guaranty Fund, is larger than some had expected, it is Jn my
judgment, money well invested. The attention of teachers is called to
Oberlin College, both for themselves and for their pupils. The presence
for a year of only one student in the College, who would not have been in
Oberlin but for the Summer Session, would nearly make up the deficit if
the amount incurred this year.

The number of graduates enrolled was eighteen, an advance of four
over last year. The great needs of the Summer Session of the College
are: the addition of normal courses in branches taught in the High School,
and of courses that would appeal more strongly to graduate students.
For this enlargement no funds are available.

There were five lectures, given by President King, Professors Root
and Bushee, Mr. J. H. Smith and Miss S. W. Smith. The Conservatory
also gave a recital before the teachers and students of the Summer
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REGISTRATION FOR THE SUMMER SCHOOL, I905

College Courses ^ '"«-''« "«» m.n ""£

Bibliography Professor Root o 5 5

Chemistry Mr. Chapin o 4 4

Classical Archaeology Professor Martin . . . i 9 xo

Economics Professor Bushee 9 10 19

English Literature

Three Periods Mr. H. J. Smith 6 21 27

English Drama Mr. H. J. Smith 3 7 lo

Ethics Miss Penfield 5 5 10

French I and II Professor Cowdery .3 7 10

German I and II Professor Martin . . 2 8 10

German III Professor Andercgg 2 8 10

History, Europe in the 19th Cent Professor Root .... 13 13 26

Labor Problems Professor Bushee ... 8 6 14

Latin

Cicero Professor Cole i 5 6

Roman Literature Professor Cole 2 10 12

Teachers* Course Professor Cole .... 3 6 9

Mathematics

Trigonometry Professor Anderegg 2

Analytic Geometry Professor Anderegg o

Ornithology Mr. Baird 6

Political Science Professor Root lo

Psychology Miss Penfield 6

Sociology Professor Bushee 6

Academy or High School Courses

Latin

Latin I and II Professor Hosford . . 3 4 7

Latin III Professor Hosford . . i i 2

Mathematics

Algebra Professor Anderegg 268

Geometry Professor Anderegg 279

English Miss Ward 2 4 6

Normal Courses

Arithmetic Mr. Boone o 7 7

English. Grammar Mr. Boone 044

American Literature Mr. H. J. Smith. ... o ii 11

Primary Methods Miss Smith o 7 7

Physiography Mr. J. H. Smith . . . o 3 3

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES B. MARTIN.

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Report of the Director of the Men's
Gymnasium

To thi President:

Sir — ^The receipts and expenditures of the Gymnasium for 1904-05
were as follows:

RECEIPTS

From term bills of men in the College, Academy, and Conser-
vatory $983.75

From other fees 225.00

From rental 4aoo

From interest on endowment ($5,000) 24aoo

Miscellaneous 4.16

Total $1,492.91

EXPENDITURES

Teaching (Director's salary not included) $1,351.13

Clerk hire 22.99

Stationery and printing *9.50

Janitor and assistance 474*63

Custodian 84.05

Fuel 457.22

Lights 104-94

Water 213.15

Supplies and repairs 272.27

New apparatus : 60.73

Clearing back lots 73.C3

Special appropriation, for running track in gallery 340.00

Insurance 48.56

Telephone 15.00

Total $3,547.80

Estimated Actual

Expenditures, 1904-05 $3437.00 $3,547.8o

Income, 1904-05 1,375.00 1,492.91

Drawn from University funds 2,062.00 $2,054.89

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The men who made use of the Gymnasium in 1904-05 were distribu-
ted as follows:

The Colleee ^°* *° ^^ VMing In credit In other Not taking

^ Colleffe Gymnasium courses classes class work

Graduates 12 9 i 5 3

Seniors 54 39 8 2 29

Juniors 55 52 23 3 26

Sophomores 69 64 28 4 32

Freshmen 85 80 40 17 23

Specials 19 15 7 .. 8

Total College 294 259 107 31 121

The Theological Seminary.. 51 25 15 10

The Academy 214 196 4 154 38

The Conservatory of Music . . 77 50 2 40 8

Total, all departments.. 636 530 113 240 177

Members of Faculty 9 .. 5 4

High School 31 31

Business College 21 21

Citizens ... lo . . 10

Grand totals 601 113 307 181

These figures show that 83 1-3 per cent of the men in all departments
made use of the Gymnasium, and 88.7 per cent, of the undergraduates
in the College department. The corresponding percentages for the year
before were 82.8 and 91.8. One hundred and seven College undergradu-
ates, or 37.9 per cent, of the whole number, were enrolled in the credit
courses, instead of the 92 (34-2 per cent.) of the year before. Two hun-
dred and six new students received physical examinations, and 56 old
students were re-examined (the figures the year before were 206 and 39),
besides the large number of candidates for the different varsity and Acad-
emy teams who were given partial examinations, in accordance with our
practice, to determine their physical fitness to engage in intercollegiate or
interscholastic contests.

The plan of work outlined on page 142 of the last Annual Report was
continued without change. Mr. Edwin Fauvcr, besides teaching the two
divisions of the elementary credit course at 8:30 and 2 o'clock, conducted
the mixed class at 10:30 and took Mr. Tompkins's place at 3 o'clock. Mr.

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R. P. Jameson, Tutor in Declamation, assisted Mr. Fauver with the large

2 o'clock section and took Mr. Tompkins's place at 4 o'clock. The work
of Mr. E. F. Adams remained as before, and Mr. D. B. Reed's place at
7:30 in the evening was taken by Mr. W. C. Clancy, of the class of '97,
the cashier of the State Savings Bank in Oberlin. This year the College
loses the services of Mr. Fauver, Teacher in the Men's Gymnasium 1900-

03 and Instructor in Physical Training 1903-05, and of Mr. Adams,
Teacher in- the Men's Gymnasium 1901-05. The former has entered
upon a medical course in Columbia University, and the latter is pursuing
post-graduate studies at Harvard University. Both have been on the staff
of instruction ever since Warner Gymnasium was first opened for work.
It is a pleasure to bear witness to their faithfulness and efficiency as
teachers and their sterling qualities as men. Mr. Fauver's wide influence
as head coach of varsity athletic teams has always been exerted on the
side of clean athletics and true sportsmanship, and in this capacity, also,
he has rendered the College an invaluable service. In the gymnasium their
places are now filled by Mr. R. P. Jameson, the new Instructor in Physical
Training, and Mr. Walter W. McKay, of the class of '05.

Mr. Fauver has submitted the following estimate of the number of men
engaged in the chief forms of athletic sports during the year 1904-05:

Varsity Academy Class Un- Total

team team teams classified

Football (fall) ao 33 60 20 133

Basket Ball (winter) 10 10 60 20 100

Baseball (spring) 22 20 48 20 no

Track Athletics (spring) 75

Tennis (fall and spring) . . . . 75

He believes that there was a perceptible gain in the attention given to
training and regularity in practice, not only by members of the varsitv
teams, but by the men on class and "scrub" teams as well. This was
especially true in the case of football, basket ball and track athletics. In
football it was not unusual to see four or five teams at work on the same
afternoon. No serious accident occurred during the season. Basket ball
and baseball showed an increase in popularity, and the number of candi-
dates for the track team was greater than ever before. As soon as the
staff of instruction will permit and the necessary facilities for such ex-
ercises can be provided it is very desirable that the range of work done
by the organized department of ph3rsical training be extended to include
various forms of open-air sports, not with the idea of developing material

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for vanity teams, but in order that every man in the institution, without
regard to his ability to gain a place on class, department, or varsity teams,
may have a share in the valuable training furnished by athletics.

As a first step in the direction of an outdoor gymnasium the back
lots lying west and north of Warner Gymnasium were cleared off during
the summer and one of them, the lot in the rear of the building, has been
graded and seeded down. It is hoped that the rest can be given similar
treatment before long, and a good running track laid out, jumping ditches
prepared, some simple apparatus erected, and the regular classes brought
out here, when the weather is suitable, for running, jumping, throwing, and
other excercises, and for a variety of active games. The increase in the
number of men using the gymnasium, from 551 in 1903-04 to 601 last year,
together with the opening of the Teachers* Course in Physical Training
for men, in which thirteen students are already enrolled, have given
added emphasis to our need of the addition originally planned at the north
end of the gymnasium, and I must therefore repeat, with greater convic-
tion of its importance than before, what was said on this subject on page^
143 and 144 of the last Annual Report. Every room in the completed
building would be put to good use at once.

The time has come, too, when a second man, of higher rank than
instructor, should be added to the permanent staff of instruction and man-
. agcmcnt in this department. He should conduct the credit courses in prac-
tical physical training now offered to College students, organize and
supervise the outdoor work mentioned above, oversee the management and
training of the various athletic teams as a responsible officer of the College,
but without any direct responsibility for the development of winning teams
in intercollegiate contests, and share in the instruction given in the Teach-
ers' Course in Physical Training. For such a position I suggest the title
of Associate Professor of Physical Training and Director of Athletics, the
incumbent to be promoted ultimately to a full professorship, when the
appointment is made permanent.

Respectfully submitted,

FRED EUGENE LEONARD.

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Report of the Director of the Women's
G)niinasium

To the President:

Sir — The women in attendance at the Gymnasium were distributed

as follows:

The College

First Semester^ 1004-0/)

Number In Credit In Other
in Collesre Courses Courses

Graduates 4 o i

Seniors 56 10 o

Juniors 75 24 4

Sophomores 88 30 6

Freshmen 109 46 12

Specials 35 7 2

Total 367 117 25

Second Semester, iqo$

Graduates 4 o o

Seniors 54 8 o

Juniors 72 17 2

Sophomores 89 24 3

Frtshmen 110 44 11

Specials 29 2 2

Total 358 95 18

The Academy 148 8i

The Conservatory 472 124

Drawing and Painting 24 7

Private Pupils 9

Number of women in College, 1,063. Number attending Gymna-
sium, 365.

Physical examinations were given to 255 new students and over n
hundred second examinations were made.

It has been the policy of the Director to get along with the inconven-
ience of the present small building rather than to ask to have it .enlarged

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and »o put oflF even by a year the much needed new building, but the in-
crease of students in the Teachers* Course from i to 48 in four years makes
more room imperative. Provision should be made for the 700 young
women for whom there is no room in the present building, but an oppor-
tunity to do their work must be given to the young women whom we
have allowed to enter the Teachers* Course. Take as an example the
room 10 ft. by 15 ft., in which medical gymnastics is taught. There are
II Seniors in the course this year. Add to this number the 12 who come
for exercise, then allow space for the necessary apparatus, and the in-
adequacy of the room is evident. There are similar inconveniences in other
rooms.

In planning for more space, the most economical way seems to be to
add another story to the present building. It has been estimated that this
could be done for $3500.00. Some of the advantages to be gained are as
follows: The present exercise room is 295^ ft. by 42 ft. with a row of posts
through the center. The ceiling is entirely too low for suspended appara-
tus, such as climbing ropes, traveling rings, and the like. In the new plai;
the main exercise room would be on the third floor. It could be 30 ft.
by 70 ft. with no posts. The side walls should be 13^^ ft. and the roof
half pitch, which would give the necessary height for the suspended ap-
paratus. The remainder of this story would be divided between a resting
room and the Instructor's office.

In such an exercise room the work given to the classes we now have,
could be greatly improved and larger classes could be accommodated. It
would give space for new apparatus. The students in the Teachers*
Course ought to be familiar with the apparatus ordinarily found in gym-
nasia. With money enough for such apparatus, it has not been bought
because there has been no place to put it. Such a room would give space
for indoor sports. In the one we are using, there is no opportunity for
indoor basket ball and similar games. The parties which the women now
hold in the Men's Gymnasium could also be held here. This plan is not
objectionable on account of the stairs. The students go up and down but
one flight at a time, as they always stop at the dressing rooms, which are
on the second floor.

The two rooms on the second floor now used for the Teachers* Course
could be made into locker rooms. This space would accommodate 75 more
students. This would leave, howe\'er, over 600 women unprovided
for, part of whom would undoubtedly take gymnastics if they had the op-
portunity. The old exercise room on the first floor would be still used for
individual work, and would give adequate space for medical g>Tnnastics.

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As soon as funds are secured for a new gymnasium, the present
building can at once be converted into a dormitory for women either
separately or in connection with Talcott or Baldwin.

I trust that this proposition will receive your serious consideration.

During the summer, Miss Wickwire acted as supervisor and taught
in the Pittsburgh Recreation Parks and Vacation ' Schools.

In March the director attended the American Physical Educational
Association* and the Society for Research in Physical Education, in New
York; in April, the National Meeting of the Young Women's Christian
Association held in Detroit; and in July, the orthopedic clinic of Dr.
Ritchl in Freiburg, and Dr. Schulthess in Zurich.

The health of the young women during the past year was unusually
good. •

THE GYMNASIUM AND FIELD ASaOCIATION.

At the close of the year the Association had 285 members, an increase
of 93 over the previous year. There is a steadily growing interest in the
events of the year. One hundred women were given permission to play
basket ball and the usual matched games between the classes were played
off in the spring. About the same number used the Association tennis
courts and a fair proportion of these played in the tennis tournament.
Skating grows more popular each year. The figure skating contest inau-
gurated by the Association has done much towards making independent
skaters of the young women. In the last contest a silver cup was given
to the winner. There is quite a demand for instructors in horseback
riding. The Association hopes soon to arrange for such instruction.

teachers' course in physical TRAINING (FOR WOMEN.)

The receipts and expenditures of the Teachers* Course in Physical
Training were as follows:

RfCfipts

From term bills of Seniors $525.00

Anatomy fees 36.00

Total receipts $561.00

Expenditurfs

Teaching $226.75

Books and periodicals 7^9

Apparatus 176.27

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Printing, postage, and express H*S9

Music 8.30

Clerical work 23.00

Repairs and furnishing 47*53

Director — ^Traveling expenses to National Meet-
ing of Physical Education Association.... 46.00
Sundries 5.70

Total expenditures $645.43

The deficit of $84.43 was made good from the surplus of the yeai-
before.

The number of students in this course was distributed as follows:

•

Seniors 7

Juniors lo

Sophomores 14

Freshmen 17

Total 48

Miss Fowler has been successful in her first year of work as super-
visor of the Juniors' teaching in the public schools. There are more
grades that want gymnastics than we have teachers to send. The course
in the Theory of Play and Games has been made a two- instead of a
one-hour course. In addition to the eighteen lessons given by Mr. Fauver
on Out Door Sports, nine were given by Miss Clara May on Kindergar-
ten Games, and nine by Miss Wickwire on Gymnastic Games. The ex-
hibit sent to the St. Louis Fair was awarded a diploma and a silver medal.
Respectfully submitted,

DELPHINE HANNA.

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Report of the Superintendent of Build-
ings and Grounds

To thi President:

Sir — ^A disastrous fire, from an unknown cause, occurring January
31st, 1905, did great damage to the interior of Baldwin Cottage. The
students occupying the building were taken care of for the remainder of
the term at the Park Hotel. Repairs were begun as soon as the insurance
could be adjusted and the building was ready for occupancy at the be-
ginning of the spring term. The insurance on the building and contents
was $2766.09. Repairs of all kinds cost $3105.92; but this included the re-
newal and addition of many parts not damaged by the fire so that the fire
loss was fully covered by the insurance and the cost of repairs for several
years to come will be much reduced.

A very important work, completed this summer under the supervision
of Mr. Andrew Auten, was that done on the trees on the Campus and other
College grounds. Sixty-five trees of various sizes were removed and on
all of the remaining trees dead and interfering branches were cut out, bad
wounds were treated and in some cases trees were cut back to enhance the
effect of the grouping. The cost of this work was $967.42. As part of
the improvement of the Campus the walks formerly leading to the old
chapel have been re-arranged and several new walks made. Another
work looking toward the improvement of the College grounds was the re-
moval of the wooden buildings at the rear of Peters Hall, and of the old
orchard and board fence northwest of Warner Gymnasium. Part of this
ground has been graded and seeded to make a training field in connection
with the gymnasium work; the remainder of the lot will be similarly
treated next year. As soon as earth from the excavation of the Chapel
is available the grounds back of Peters Hall will be graded and seeded
and paths laid out leading to the Chapel.

Along the same line is the work now in progress at the Arboretum.
This property has been too long neglected so that large portions of the
grove have become overgrown with brambles and underbrush and several
dead trees are a menace to neighboring trees. These are being removed
and new paths and roadways made into heretofore little used parts of the
grove. This beautiful gro\'e is being increasingly used by the students

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and in order to insure the permanent removal of the undergrowth an annual
appropriation of about $50.00 should be made for the next two or three
years.

In anticipation of the commencement of work on the new Chapel this
summer the Finney House was sold and torn down.

A gift from a member of the Board of Trustees made possible the
painting of the walls and woodwork of the dining room of the hotel.
Sturges Hall has also been re-decorated throughout with the exception of
the audience room which was re-tinted last year; kitchen plumbing has
been placed in one of the smaller rooms of the second story for the use of
the literary societies who paid the greater part of the cost of these improve-
ments.

At Council Hall all of the recitation rooms and halls and many uf
the students* rooms were redecorated. A stone walk leading from the
front door to the southeast and southwest corners of the lot was laid and
the front lawn regraded.

The seating capacity of the reading room of Spear Library is wholly
inadequate to the demand and the situation will not be relieved until the
new building is built. However, by re-arranging the old and furnishing
several new tables, places were provided for twenty-five more students.

The Central Heating Plant, taken out of the hands of a receiver by
a recently organized company, gave satisfactory service most of the time
last winter and, because of more favorable terms to the College in the
new contract, the service should be wholly satisfactory in the future. The
cost of heating the ten buildings connected with it for the last winter on
the meter basis was $7489.99, which was $770.41 more than the cost the
previous year by the flat rate. This additional cost is partly to be account-
ed for by the fact that more radiation was installed in three of the build-
ings and because of the unprecedentedly cold weather in February.

A long step forward has been taken this year in the improvement of
the College grounds. The architectural effect of some of our most import-
ant buildings, however, is greatly marred by the close proximity of old
barns and sheds not belonging to the College. Cannot an arrangement be
made with the owners for their removal?

Respectfully submitted,

C. P. DOOLITTLE.

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Statistics of Instruction
and Attendance

Year of 1904-05

The schedule numbers in the following tables refer to the courses
as described in the catalogue for 1903-04.

In science courses the hours of instruction spent by the teacher in la-
boratory work are marked with the letter **L," the letter "R" being used
to denote hours in regular recitation.

I. THE COLLEGE

IN8TBUCTOR AND COURSE

Anatomy
Professor Leonard.

Human Anatomy (credit: 3 hours) I

Astronomy
Professor St. John.

1. General Astronomy (credit: 3 hours).. I

2. General Astronomy (credit: 3 hours).. II
Assistant BuRR.

Bible

Associate Professor Fitch.

5. Freshman Bible I

8. Old Testament Wisdom II

President King and Professor Bosworth.

9. Senior Bible I

10. Senior Bible II

L I
R I

L 2

R 2

L 2

R 3

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Bibliography

Professor Root.

2. Use of Libraries

3. History of the Printed Book

4. Illustration of Books

Botany
Professor Grover.

1. Elementary Botany (credit: 4 hours)..

2. Elementary Botany (credit: 4 hours)..

3. Organic Evolution

4. General Ecology (credit: 4 hours)....

6. Dendrology (credit: 2 hours)

7. Class, of Flowering Plants

8. Class, of Flowering Plants

9. Class, of Algae

lo. Class, of Algs

Assistant, Miss Stokey.
Assistant Sackett.

Chemistry
Professor Jewett.

X. Inorganic Chemistry (2 sec) I

(Credit: 5 hours.)

4. Organic Chemistry (credit: 5 hours).. II

6. Quantitative Analysis (credit: 5 hours) II

7. Assaying (credit : i hour) I

Instructor Taylor and Assistant Chapin.

2. Qualitative Analysis (credit: 5 hours) II
Instructor Taylor.

3. Quantitative Analysis (credit: 5 hours) I
-. Quantitative Analysis, adv. (credit:

5 hours) I

lis

Men

L 8

R 2
Lii

R 2

3
Lii

R 2

L 9

R 2

L 6

L 2

L 3

L 3-

L7a
R 6

«4

Lxo
R 3

L 10
L 3

17
10

4
0
0

L45
R 2

L20

L 5

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Chemistry ( Continued)

5. Elcctro-Chcraistry (credit : 3 hours) . .
-. Elcctro-Chcmistry (credit: 3 hours)..

Christian Evidences

Professor G. F. Wright.
Logic of Christian Evidences II

Classical Archaeology

Professor Martin.

5. History of Greek Sculpture I

6. History of Greek Sculpture II

7. Explanation of Selected Monuments.... I

8. Explanation of Selected Monuments.... II

Economics and Sociology

Professor Bogart.

z. Economic History of U. S I

2. Political Economy II

3. Money and Banking I

6. Transportation and Tariff II

7. Public Finance I

12. Charities II

1 5. Economic Seminar I

16. Economic Seminar II

English Composition

Instructor Smith

z. Freshman Composition (5 sec.) I

2. Freshman Composition (5 sec.) II

Instructor Bates.

3. Sophomore Composition (3 sec.) I

4. Sophomore Composition (3 sec.) II

5. Advanced Composition I

6. Journalistic Writing II

8. Advanced Rhetoric II

lis

L S

I R z

L 5

«3

Z29

Z26

ZOO

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

English Literature *

Instructor Bates.

1. History of English Literature I

2. History of English Literature II

2a American Literature II

Instructor Smith.

1. History of English Literature I

2. History of English Literature II

Professor Wager.

3. Old English Literature I

4. Old English Literature II

7. Theory of Poetry I

8. Theory of Poetry II

9. Shakespeare I

xo. Shakespeare II

13. Victorian Prose I

14. Victorian Poetry II

21. Old and Middle English I

22. Old and Middle English II

French

Professor Wightman.

1. Beginning I

2. Beginning .^ II

3. Grammar and Reading I

4. Grammar and Reading II

9. Prose 19th Century I

10. Prose 19th Century II

19. History of French Literature I

20. History of French Literature II

Associate Professor Cowdery.

1. Beginning {z sec.) I

2. Beginning (2 sec.) II

3. Grammar and Reading I

4. Grammar and Reading II

5. Composition I

6. Composition II

7. Conversation I

8. Conversation II

15. Poetry of 17th and i8th Century I

16. Poetry of 19th Century II

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French (Continued)

17. Adv. Grammar and Composition I

18. Adv. Grammar and Composition II

Geology
Professor A. A. Wright.

1. General Geology (credit: 5 hours) I

Associate Professor Jones.

2. Physiographic Geology (credit: 3 hours) II
Assistant Baird.

4. Paleontology (credit: 2 hours) II

Professor G. F. Wright.

6. Quaternary Geology (credit: 3 hours). II

German

Professor Abbott.

I. Elementary I

a. Elementary , II

5. Third year (2 sec) I

6. Third year (2 sec.) II

9. Rapid Reading I

la Rapid Reading II

Teacher, Miss Tenney.

1. Elementary I

2. Elementary II

Tutor, Mrs. Swing.

3. Second year (2 sec.) I

4. Second year (2 sec.) II

Instructor Mosher.

3. Second year (2 sec.) I

3. Second year (2 sec) II

11. Lessing I

12. Lessing II

15. History of German Literature I

16. History of German Literature II

L I

R 5

L 4

R 3

, 7

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INSTBUCTOR AND COURSE

Greek

Instructor Lord.

1. Beginning (credit: 5 hours) I

2. Beginning (credit: 5 hours) II

20. Prose Composition II

Professor Martin.

3. Freshman Greek I

4. Freshman Greek II

XI. Herodotus I

12. Herodotus II

13. History of Greek Literature I

14. History of Greek Literature II

History

Professor Johnston.

1. History of Spain I

2. History of Italy 11

3. Mediaeval History I

4. History of Civilization II

5. History of Painting I

6. History of Architecture II

Professor Miller.

9. History of Rome I

10. History of Rome II

Professor Hall.

11. Outline, English History I

12. Outline, English History II

13. Outline, American History I

14. Outline, American History II

19. English Institutions I

20. English Institutions II

21. Current Events I

22. Current Events II

Latin

Professor Cole.

1. Freshman Latin (i sec.) I

2. Freshman Latin ( i sec.) II

5. Vergil I

6. Catullus II

9. Latin Writing I

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Teac
Hoi
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«5

»5

»7

>♦

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Latin (Continued)

za Latin Writing II

13. Terence I

14. Pliny II

ai. Teachers* Course I

22. Teachers* Course II

Instructor Lord.

1. Freshman Latin (3 sec.) I

2. Freshman Latin (3 sec) II

Mathematics

Professor Anderecg.

X. Freshman Math. ( z sec.) I

2. Freshman Math, (i sec.) II

9. Advanced Analytics I

la Advanced Analytics II

1 1. Calculus I

12. Calculus II

17. Analytic Mechanics I

18. Analytic Mechanics II

Z9. Spherical Harmonics I

20. Spherical Harmonics II

Associate Professor Cairns.

1. Freshman Math. (2 sec) I

2. Freshman Math. (2 sec) II

3. Surveying (credit: 2 hours) II

4. Surveying (credit: 2 hours) II

7. College Algebra I

8. College Algebra II

Intructor Luckey.

1. Freshman Math. (3 sec.) I

2. Freshman Math. (3 sec.) II

Tutor Hill.

1. Freshman Math. (1 sec.) I

2. Freshman Math. (1 sec) II

Mineralogy
Professor Jewett.

Mineralogy (credit : 5 hours) II

L 6

' la

L 5

R 3

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Music

Professor Dickinson.

2. History of Music II

3. History of Music I

Oratory

Professor Caskey.

1. Oratory (2 ace.) I

2. Oratory (2 sec.) II

3. Argumentation and Debate I

3. Argumentation and Debate II

6. Dramatic Reading II

Pedagogy

Professor Miller.

X. History of Education I

a. Theory of Education II

3. Comparative School Systems I

4. Administration of Schools II

Philosophy

Professor MacLennan.

1. Psychology I

2. Ethics II

3. Experimental Psychology (credit: 2

hours) I

4. Experimental Psychology (credit: a

hours) II

5. Logic I

6. Introduction to Philosophy II

XI. History of Philosophy I

X2. History of Philosophy II

13. Metaph3rsics I

14. Metaphysics II

President King.

9. Microcosmus * I

xo. Microcosmus II

AsiKxriate Professor Fitch.

8. History of Aesthetics II

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Physical Training

Professor Hanna and Instructor Miss Wickwire.

1. Elementary (women) (3 sec.) I

2. Elementary (women) (2 sec.) II

3. Advanced (women) ( i sec) I

4. Advanced (women) (a sec) II

Instructor Fauver.

1. Elementary (men) (2 sec) I

2. Elementary (men) (2 sec) II

Professor Leonard.

3. Advanced (men) I

4. Advanced (men) II

Physics
Professor St. John.

X. Mechanics, Sound, and Heat (credit: 5

hours) I

2. Mechanics, Sound, Heat (credit: 4

hours) II

3. Electricity and Magnetism (credit: 4

hours) I

4. Electricity and Magnetism (credit: 4

hours) II

5. Light and Heat (credit: 4 hours).... I

6. Light and Heat (credit: 4 hours) II

-Special Laboratory Course I

Assistant Burr, Assistant Lucket.

Physiology
Professor Leonard.
Physiology and Hygiene II

Political Science
Professor Hall.

X. Government in the United States I

2. Government in the United States II

3. Government in England I

4. Government in England II

Professor Bogart.

5. Comparative Politics I

L 9

L 6

L 3

L 6

L 3

L18

R 3

L18

R 3

L12

R 2

L 6

R 2

L12

R 2

L 6

R 2

L 4

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3S>

Spanish

Professor Wightman.

1. Spanish, Beginning I

2. Spanish, Beginning II

Teachers' Coarse in Physical Training

Professor Leonard.

Theory of Physical Training; I

Hist, and Lit. of Ph. Tr I

Hist, and Lit. of Ph. Tr II

Professor Hanna.

Applied Anatomy I

Physical Exam, and Diag I

Medical Gymnastics (i) II

Medical Gymnastics (2) II

Instructor Dr. Ruwok.

Emergencies I

Anatomy (2) I

Instructors Fauver, Miss Wickwire, and Miss May.

Theory of Play and Games II

Zooldgy

Professor A. A. Wright, Associate Professor
L. Jones, and Assistant Baird.

I. Elementary (credit : 4 hours) I

3. Elementary (credit: 4 hours) II

Assistant Baird.

6. Ornithology (credit: 2 hours) II

LI4

R 3

LX2

R 3

L 8

R 2

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Statistics of Instruction and Attendance — (Continued)

INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Old Testament

Professor Fullerton.

Special Intro, to Old Testament I

Hebrew a I

a II

b I

b II

History of Israel II

Elements of Hebrew I

Elements of Hebrew II

New Testament

Professor Bosworth.

Special Introduction I I

New Testament a *. I

a II

d I

e II

Teachings of Jesus II

Theology

President King.

Systematic I

Systematic II

Church History

Professor Swing.

General Hist, of Church I

General Hist, of Church II

History of Dogma I

History of Dogma II

Early Christian Literature I

Early Christian Literature II

Modern German Theology I

Theology in America II

Hist, of Religious Toleration I

American Church II

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3
5
5
2

21
8
6
6

5
5

18
18

4
6

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Harmony of Science and Revelation

Professor G. F. Wright.

Inductive Reasoning II

Comparative Religion
Professor G. F. Wright.

Comparative Religion II

Homiletics
Professor Currier.

Theol. Encyclopedia I

Homiletics a I

Homiletics b II

Sermon Construction I

Sermon Construction II

Preaching Exercises I

Preaching Exercises II

Practical Theology a I

Practical Theology b II

Missions ^ I

Social Problems II

Sermon Criticism II

Oratory
Professor Caskev.

Elocution a I

Elocution b II

Slavic Department
Professor Miskovsky.

Bohemian I

Bohemian II

English I

English II

Logic I

" II

" I

" II

Church History I

General History II

Theology I

Theology II

New Testament Greek II

Psychology II

X-2

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Bible
Professor Peck.

Senior Fall

" Winter

" Spring

Instructor Adams.

Middle Fall

Winter

Spring

Associate Professor Shaw.

Junior Middle Fall

Winter

Spring

Instructor Jameson.

Junior Fall

Winter

" Spring

Instructor Miss Smithe.

Irregular Fall

" Winter

'* Spring

Botany-
Tutor Tracy.

Beginning (credit: 4 hours) Fall

Beginning (credit: 4 hours) Winter

Beginning (credit: 4 hours) Spring

Declamation

Instructor Jameson.

Declamation Fall

" Winter

" Spring

Fall

" Winter

" Spring

■zl*

ll^l

L 3

R 5

L 4

R 5

L 4

R 5

30
32
30

60
43
55

33
30
34

29
3a

35
20

21
28

^4
29

^5
12
x8

XI
XX

5
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English

Instructor Miss Thompson.
English I (2 sec.)

II (2 sec.)....

III (2 sec.)....
English Grammar

Instructor Miss Brownback.

English IVa (2 sec.)

Va (2 sec.)

Via (2 sec.)

VII (3 sec.)

VIII (3 sec.)

IX (3 sec.)

X (2 sec.)

XI (2 sec.)

XII (2 sec.)

Instructor Mrs. Fargo.

English IVa

Via

IVb

VIb

Tutor Huntington.

English IVb (2 sec.)

Vb (2 sec.)

VIb (2 sec.)

XIII

XIV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX (2 sec.)

XX (2 sec.)

XXI (2 sec.)....

Fall

Winter

Spring

«3

Fall

* 10

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

«3

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

Fall

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Winter

Spring

Fall

Winter

Spring

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French

Tutor Mrs. Cowdery.

French I (a sec.) Fall

'* I Winter

" II (2 sec.) Winter

II Spring

" III (2 sec.) Spring

'* IV Fall

'* V Winter

" VI Spring

German

Tutor Mrs. Harroun.

German I (3 sec.) Fall

II (3 sec.) Winter

" III (3 sec.) Spring

Tutor Mrs. Swing.

German IV Fall

" V Winter

'* VI Spring

I Winter

II Spring

Greek

Professor Peck

Greek I Fall

" II Winter

" III Spring

" IV Fall

" V Winter

" VI Spring

History-
Tutor Wirkler.

History I Fall

II Winter

" III Spring

IV Fall

V Winter

VI Spring

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Latin

Associate Professor HoSFORD.

Latin I (2 sec.) Fall

** II (2 sec.) Winter

" III (2 sec.) Spring

" X (2 sec.) Fall

" XI (2 sec.) Winter

" XII (2 sec.) Spring

Instructor Miss Smith E.

Latin I (2 sec.) Fall

" I Winter

" I Spring

II Winter

" II Spring

" III Fall

" IV Winter

" V Spring

Associate Professor Shaw.

Latin IV (2 sec) Fall

" , V (2 sec.) Winter

" VI (2 sec) Spring

" Vila Fall

" Villa Winter

" IXa Spring

" Vllb Fall

" Vlllb Winter

«' IXb Spring

Mathematics

Tutor MoORE.

Algebra I (2 sec.) Fall

II ( 2 sec.) Winter

III (2 sec.) Spring

IV (2 sec.) Fall

V (2 sec.) Winter

" VI (2 sec.) Spring

Geometry III Fall

" I Winter

II Spring

Tutor Hill.

Geometry I (2 sec.) Fall

«5

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Statistics of Instruction and Attendance — (Continued)

Afiathematics (Continued)

Geometry II (2 sec.) Winter

" III (2 sec.) Spring

Algebra VII Fall

" VIII Winter

" IX Spring

Mechanical Drawing Fall

Winter

Spring

Tutor WiRKLER.

Arithmetic (2 sec.) Fall

(2 sec.) Winter

" (2 sec. ) Spring

Assistant Burr.

Algebra II Spring 5

Physics

Instructor Adams.

L12

Ph3rsics I (2 sec.) (credit: 4 hours) Fall R 8

Lx2

" II (2 sec) (credit: 4 hours) Winter R 8

L12
'* III (2 sec.) (credit: 4 hours) Spring R 8

Zoology

Tutor Tracy.

L 4

Zoology I (credit: 4 hours) Fall R 5

L 4

" II (credit: 4 hours) Winter R 5

L 4

" III (credit: 4 hours) Spring R 5

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Report of the Treasurer
1905

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Treasurer's Statement

To THB Board op Trustees of Oberlin College :—

The Treasurer of the College submits his Annual Statement for the

year ending August 31, 1905, as follows:
The funds separately invested are:

C. G. Finney Memorial Fund —

Principal Net

AofiTUBt 81. 1906 Income

Mortgages $77,500.00

Cash M93*49

$83,793.49 $4,827.11

Springer Fund —

Cleveland real estate 5,182.09 316.19

Foltz Fund —

Bonds 524.00 24.00

Totals $89,499.58 $5,167.31

The other funds are invested as a whole. A summary statement of

these investments with the net income thereof, is as follows:

Princiral
Augrust 31. 1906

Notes and Mortgages $433,040.87

Stocks and Bonds 411,142.25

Collateral loans 282,078.97

Real estate 231,604.44

Deposits (Savings and Trust Co.*s) 19,000.00

Sundry accounts 158,998.75

Loan to General Fund 10,950.89

Deposits subject to check and cash 34,394*58 ^^^

Income

Total of general investments $1,581,210.75 $81,147.23

Total of special investments 89,499.58

$1,670,71033

The above investments are stated in detail, beginning at page 224 of
this report.

The net income of general investments has been divided at the rate
of 4.8 per cent, among the funds to which they belong.

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An item of Advances to Museum, $1,213.85, which has been carried
for some years as an asset, was charged off in the expense account of the
College department. A small surplus in the Theological Seminary account,
$116.15, was applied to the reduction of the Advances to the Englisli
Course.

The excess of income over expense ($174.67) in the accounts of Uni-
versity, College, Academy and Theological Seminary, combined as usual,
was applied to the purchase of books for the Library, according to the
vote of the Trustees. The previous accumulated deficit of $10,950.89 re-
mains unchanged.

Gifts have been received during the year as follovos:

GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USB

From Charles H. Hulburd, $125.00 for purchase of gas engine for
the department of Physics.

From Tracy McGregor, $75.00 for aid to students.

From Irving W. Metcalf, $15.00 for care of trees.

From Homer H. Johnson, $25.00 for care of trees.

From "A Friend," $1,000 for care of trees.

From E. A. West, $50.00 for the Library.

From "A Friend," $275.00 for the Library.

From James B. Dill, $250.00 for additional equipment of Athletic
Park.

From Mrs. Orlando B. Potter, $25.00 for current expense.

From Merritt Starr, $20.00 for current expense.

From an anonymous donor, $50.00 for re-decorating dining room of
Park Hotel.

From the Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, $121.99 for aid to
students in the Theological Seminary.

From members of the Living Endowment Union, $1,110.80 for cur-
rent expense.

Sundry gifts for Women's Recreation Field, $139.00.

For the purchase of photographs to illustrate lectures on art and archi-
tecture from —

Mrs. Elbert B. Monroe. . ...$25.00 Mrs. D. V. Mays $ 2.00

Mrs. D. M. Phillips 7.00 Anonymous i6.on

For employment Fund for Seminary students from —

F. C. Wood $10.00 William Hofner $ laoo

Arthur T. Reed 7.00 Mrs. H. W. Woodford laoo

Miss L. C. Wattles 10.00 E. A. Paddock 10.00

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S. D. . Strong 20.00

B. V. Child 5.00

J. H. Palmer a.oo

Paul Fcwc 5.00

George W. Moore i.oo

O. S. Kriebel 5.00

Mrs. E. W. R. Lord 5.00

A. A. and Frank Healy. . . 100.00

Irving W. Metcalf 100.00

M. P. Jones a.oo

R. M. Webster i.oo

N. W. Bates 5.00

E. L. Pickard 100.00

Mrs. F. E. Tracy 25.00

George Gadsby 5.00

W. F. McMillen 4.00

A. E. Thompson 5.00

Charles W. Green i.oo

C. N. Pond 1.00

Henry K, Hawley 25.00

J. N. Smith 75.00

Mrs. Helen G. Coburn 650.00

Charles Nelson 5.00

Smith Norton z.oo

G. T. Nichols 5.00

J. R. Rogers 1.00

C. A. Coffin 50.00

A. Gillet 5.00

Congregational Church, Brownhelm 4.00

Congregational Church, Pittsfield 5.05

Congregational Church, North Columbus 8.32

Congregational Church, Ridgeville Comers 5.00

Washington Street Congregational Church and S. S., Toledo 20.0c

Pilgrim Church, Cleveland 75-oo

"A Friend" 100.00

For the support of the Slavic Department in the Theological Semi-
nary from —

J. W. Smith $ 75.00

H. C. Barnes 4.00

Irving W. Metcalf 50.00

Mrs. L. G. B. Hills 15.00

Mrs. J. A. Lane 25.00

"A Friend" 5.00

W. W. Thompson 5.00

A. G. Comings 5.00

E. J. Goodrich 5.00

O. P. Neilson 5.00

W. J. Park 3.00

F. C. Case 5.00

George Hall 5.00

W. H. C. Fowler 5.00

Miss Clara G. Strange. . . . 10.00

J. G. W. Cowles 15.00

A. O. Upson 25.00

H. Clark Ford 50.00

J. A. Kahout 5.00

Andrew Gavlik 8.00

J. S. Jarabek 500

Mrs. Rebecca Webb 25.00

E. L. Wertheim 2.50

"A Fnend" $

Mrs. F. Nicola

G. F. Wright

Mrs. N. Stone Scott

J. B. Hart

W. M. Mead

C. N. Pond

F. H. Angle

A. H. Currier

G. L. Case

Miss Imogen T. Fisher. . . .
M. L. Thomsen

B. S. Coggswell

G. B. Siddall

Mrs. L. R. Smith

J. G. Jennings

S. C. Smith

H. Veysey

Mrs. T. Y. Gardner

Miss Julia Hovey

Adolph Makowsl^

Miss H. W. Ely

George D. Wilder

15.00

20.00

5.00

15.00

3.00

5.00

3.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

25.00

50.00

I.oo

10.00

25.00

5.00

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F. F. Jcwett IO.OO W. K. Breckenridge 10.00

J. B. Burroughs 5.00 A. S. Root 2.00

"Friends," McKecsport, Pa. 4.03 N. W. Rice 50.00

Congregational Church, Berlin Heights $ 6.00

Congregational Church, West Park 6.00

Congregational Church, Florence 3.05

Congregational Church, Vermilion 5.00

Congregational Church, Brecksville 39*2$

First Congregational Church, Oberlin I34*53

Second Congregational Church, Oberlin 24.75

Congregational Church, Berea 6.50

First Congregational Church, Lorain 7.15

Congregational Church, Wellington 19.60

East Congregational Church, Cleveland 50.00

Plymouth Church, Cleveland 3500

Congregational Church, Silver Lake, Minn laoo

Slovak Evangelical Congregational Church, Allegheny, Pa laoo

Congregational Church, Medina 72.00

Bethlehem Congregational Church and S. S., Cleveland 14.13

Slovak Bethlehem Congregational Church, Braddock, Pa 5.00

First Congregational Church, Bellevue j 28.40

Washington Street Congregational Church, Toledo 11.71

Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, Cleveland 10.00

Massachusetts W. H. M. A 5aoo

Congregational Education Society 250.00

South Dakota W. H. M. U 68.34

New York W. H. M. U aoaoo

Ohio W. H. M. U 306.16

The total amount of these gifts for immediate use is $6^73.26

This amount is distributed in the Statement of Income and Expense
among the following accounts:

University $ 688.70

College, special accounts 130.00

Theological Seminar}', special accounts 3,683.46

Library 545-00

Miscellaneous 1,826.10

$6,873.26

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GIFTS TO FORM NEW FUNDS OR INCREASE OLD ONES

Prom T. £. Burton, of Cleveland, $250.00 for endowment

From £. A. West, of ChicagO) $1,000.00 for endowment.

From Julius Garst, of New York, $5.00 for endowment

From the First Congregational Church of Buffalo, $13.00 for endow-
ment

From the estate of Charles H. Keith, of Chicago, $900.00; part of
his bequest to Oberlin College.

From Howard H. Russell, of New York, $1,000.00 to found the Julia
Clark Davis Scholarship.

Prom the estate of Sarah M. Hall, $500.00; her bequest to Oberlin
College.

From the estate of Mary B. Emerson, $550.00; balance of her be-
quest to found the Emerson Scholarship in the Theological Seminary.

From Mrs. Mary H. Johnson, of Akron, $2,000.00; a gift to Oberlin
College.

From the class of 1898, $123.10; payments on subscriptions to a new
Class fund.

Prom the estate of Henry Willard, $200.00 for endowment

From Miss Kora F. Barnes, of New York, $5,000.00 for art building.

From insurance policy on the life of William C. Chapin, deceased,
$7,150.00, for Theological Seminary endowment

From the estate of Lucy M. Thompson, $2,ooaoo to found the Lucy
M. Thompson Scholarships for women.

From Alumni, $1,665.67, part payments on subscriptions to the Class
Reunion Funds.

The total amount of these gifts to capital account is $22JS^-77t ^
is shown on page 222 of this report.

Endowments for current expenses now stand on the books as follows:

General or University Endowments $ 666,395.08

College Department Endowments 405*558.85

Academy

Theological Seminary 127,674.76

Conservatory of Music 30,419.50

Library 24,351.26

Total $x,a54»399-45

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The accounts hereinafter presented are:

First, a set of tables showing the current income and expenses of each
Department in detail, accounts of general interest being placed under the
heading "University."

Second, a list of all the Funds and Balances in care of the Treasurer,
showing their amounts at the beginning and end of the year.

Third, a classified list of the properties or assets in the hands of the
Treasurer,

Fourth, a list of buildings, grounds, apparatus, etc, in use for Col-
lege purposes, and not valued on the Treasurer's books.

JAMES R. SEVERANCE, Treasurer.

Oberun^ Nov. 22, 1905.

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REPORT OF THE TREASURER 215

Statement of Income and Expense for the Yecr

UNIVERSITY

INCOME

From invested funds $27456.47

From rent of houses and lands not valued 5i*57

Interest on subscriptions to endowment 48.00

Gifts for current expense 688.70

Total income $ 28,244.74

EXPENSE

Salaries — ^Administration $ 3,200.00

Treasurer's office 4,000.00

Library 3,050.00

Gymnasia 3,500.00

Secretary's office 2,200.00— $i5,95aoo

Clerks 1,628.81

Stationery, printing and postage 3»7oi.03

Advertising 883.54

Fuel and lights 1,846.95

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 4,714.82

Men's Gymnasium 1,838.67

Women's Gymnasium 857.25

Outside Representation 1^3-75

Library appropriation for books 1,174.67

Summer School Normal Courses 87.50

Sundry expense 479*20

Alumni dinner 642.1 5

Payments on Lord and Hinchman Funds (in excess

of income) 31-04

Quinquennial Catalogue i»936-25

Olney Art Collection 1,168.50

Agency 2458.38

Total expense $ 39,522.51

Special Accounts — Receipts,

Art School fees $ 1,288.25

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium .. . 561.00

Amount carried forward $ 1,649.23

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Amount brought forward $ 1,649.25

Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 96.00

Jones Loan Fund, loans returned 400.00

Scholarship Funds, from investments 1,861.94

Scholarship Loan Fund, loans returned 103.50

Skating Floor 1 16.00

$ 41426.69
Special Accounts — Payments

Art School $ 1,288.25

Teachers' Course^ Women's Gymnasium 600.47

Jones Loan Fund, loans made 168.50

To holders of scholarship orders 2,208.66

Scholarship loans 350.00

Advances to scholarships repaid 163.1X

Skating floor 83.73

$ 4,862 73

COLLEGE

INCOME

From invested funds $19,462.08

Term bills 47,268.37

Graduate fees 672.75

Total in(x>me % 67,403.20

EXPENSE

Salaries $42,782.22

Clerks 240.X0

Stationery, printing and postage 343*86

Outside representation i65-57

Fuel and lights 1,629.03

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 4,724.57

Diplomas 75*50

Sundry expense 43*6o

Advances to Museum repaid 1,213.85

Museum 400.00

Amount carried forward $51,6x8.30

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Amount brought forward $51,618.30

Herbarium i75*oo

Apparatus, Physical Laboratory 4oaoo

Apparatus, Psychology 196.97

Apparatus, Mathematics 390.09

Apparatus, Anatomy 1S.39

Trustee Scholarships 793*oo

Avery Scholarships : 339*oo

Oberlin College Scholarships 5S.50

Total expense $ 53,989.25

Special Accounts — Receipts

Chemical Laboratory fees $ 1,777.56

Botanical Laboratory fees 224.50

Zoological Laboratory fees $ 542.56

Zoological Laboratory gift 5.00— 547*56

Physical Laboratory fees $285.50

Physical Laboratory gift 125.00— 4x0.50

Archxology fees 130.00

Anatomy fees 22.00

Herbarium bal. appropriation 52*59

Scholarship funds from investments 1,176.00

$ 4,340.71
Special accounts — Payments

Chemical Laboratory $ 1,907.20

Botanical '* 357*50

Zoological " 371.54

Physical " 386.85

Archaeology 184.40

Anatomy 17.61

Museum 49*77

To holders of scholarship orders 1,086.00

Advances to scholarships repaid 21.00

$ 4,381.87

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ACADEMY

INCOME

Term bills $ 15,045.65

EXPENSE

Salaries $i4»377-63

Clerks 312.09

Stationery, printing and postage 476.99

Fuel and Lights 358.63

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 642.24

Advertising 261.60

Sundry expense 2.30

Diplomas 40.85

Appropriation for books 22.00

Trustee scholarships 687.50

Total expense $ 17,181.83

Special Accounts — Receipts

Physical Laboratory $ 129.00

Botanical and Zoological Laboratory 50.75

$ 179.75
Special Accounts — Payments

Physical Laboratory $ 110.17

Botanical and Zoological Laboratory 53.25

$ 1634a

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

INCOME

From invested funds $10,213.98

Term bills and rent of rooms i»73o.35

Diplomas 55-oo

Reserve, 1903-04 5*4-53

Total income $ 12,523.86

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BXPEN8B.

Salariw $ 9»433.34

Clerks 88.50

Stationery, printing and postage 259.05

Advertising 147.80

Fuel and lights 842.75

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 1,129.42

Reserve for expenses, 1905-06 3727X

Diplomas 5.75

Sundry expense 108.59

Outside representation 19.80

Advances to English Course repaid (part) X16.15

Total expense $ 12,523.86

Special Accounts — Receipts

Slavic Department —

Loan repaid $ 30.00

Gifts for current expense 2,058.10 — $ 2,088.10

Scholarship Funds —

From investments $ 959.61

Gifts 121.99

Loans repaid 194.50— 1,276.10

Student Employment Fund, gifts.- i»503.37

$ 4»867-57
Special Accounts — Payments

Slavic Department $ 2,194.39

To holders of scholarship orders 1,144.96

Student Employment Fund 1,301.56

$ 4,640.91

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CONSERVATORY

INCOMB

Term bills $57)Oi3.85

Interest on Reserve Fund 2,664.46

Recital tickets i>473*37

Diplomas 20.00

Rent of Williams house (net) 4a8o

Total income $ 61,2x249

EXPENSE

Salaries $39t350*95

Library 665.86

Stationery, printing and postage 581.84

Advertising 63ao3

Piano and organ tuning and repair 2489.43

Fuel and lights 1,65340

Clerks 86.65

Insurance >7779

Janitor and engineers X43aoo

Supplies and repairs 11,507.75

> Purchase of instruments 3>73^*i7

Artist recitals 2,400.00

Sundry expense 5^-59

Diplomas • 7.50

Total expense $ 64,769.96

Special Accounts — Receipts

Loan Fund, loans returned $ 361.19

Special Accounts — Payments

Loan Fund, loans made $ 6xa75

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UBRARY

INCOME

From invested funds $ i,io8.86

Dividend, G. F. Harvey Company 60.00

Term bills 1443.50

Private examinations 569.00

Fines 100.00

Registrar's fees 148.50

Books and supplies sold 7.09

Gifts for current expense and purchase of books.... 545-oo

Transfer from Botanical Laboratory 50.00

Transfer from Herbarium 82.31

Transfer from Teachers' Course in Physical Training 25.83

Transfer from Conservatory 600.00

Proceeds of Mock Convention 28.06

Trustee appropriation 1,174.67

Total income $ 5,942.81

EXPENSE

Librarian's assistants $ 1,467.47

Binding of books 35240

Express and postage 30.39

Case Library fee io.oo

Supplies, including cork carpet 889.21

Wilson Bulletins 35>oo

Purchase of books 2,659.60

Total expense $ 5444.07

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MISCELLANEOUS

RECEIPTS

Finney Memorial Fund, interest $ 4,827.1a

Foltz Tract Fund, interest $ 24.00

Foltz Tract Fund, sale of tracts 2.50— 26.50

Annuity Funds, income 7,289.43

Summer School, fees $2,078.00

Summer School, special appropriation.... 87.50 — 2,165.50

Profit sale of lands 4,308.63

Sundry receipts 10,988.02

Gifts for immediate use 1,826.10

Gifts to form new funds or increase old ones 22,356.77

Total receipts $53*788.07

PAYMENTS

Finney Memorial Fund $ 2,500.00

Foltz Tract Fund 25.00

Annuities 10,398.50

Summer School 2,165.50

To holders of orders on McGregor fund 75>oo

Sundry payments 2,633.55

Total payments $ 17,797.55

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Summary of the income and expense of the University, College, Academy,
and Theological Seminary

Income Expense Surplus Deficit

University $ 28,244-74 $ 39iS**-5i $ ",277-77

College 67403.20 53,989-25 $ 13,413-95

Academy 15,045.65 17,181.83 2,136.18

Sem. (Thcol.) .. 12,523.86 12,523.86

$123,2x7.45 $X23,ax7.45 $ 13,413-95 $ 13,413-95

Summary shovnng the increase of Funds and Balances in the care of the

Treasurer

University, special accounts $ 4,426.69 $ 4,862.7a

College, special accounts 4,340.71 4,38x.87

Academy, special accounts 179-75 16342

Theological Seminary, special accounts 4,867.57 4,64a9X

Conservatory, income and expense 61,2x2.49 64,769.96

Conservatory, special accounts 361.19 6x0.75

Library, income and expense 5,942.8 x 5444.07

Miscellaneous 53,788.07 '7,797-55

$X35,xx9.28 $102,671.25
xo2,67x.25
Total increase of funds and balances, ■
as is shov^n on page 229 of this report — $ 32,448.03

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Funds and Balances in the care of the Treasurer

UNIVERSITY

August 81. 1904 August 81. 1906

General Fund (so called)

1173,477.86 Endowment $173,495.86

17,514.89 Alumni Fund 17.614.89

24,475.00 E. I. Baldwin Fund 24,475.00

10,000.00 Henrietta Blasell Fund 10,000.00

81,429.41 Jamea H. Fairchlld Professor-
ship 31.429.41

15.275.00 Walworth Fund 15,275.00

38,000.00 DIcklnaon Fund 38.00(H)

4,846.10 Clarltaa M. Smith Fund 4,846.10

16,000.00 Ralph Plumb Fund 16.000.00

2,000.00 Truman P. Handy Fund 2.000.00

85.06 Shaw Fund 85.06

79.14 Latimer Fund 79.14

1,605.91 Butler Fund 1.605.91

158.45 Whipple Fund 168.45

340.25 Perry Fund 340.25

64.06 Ryder Fund 47.66

43,172.72 Reunion Fund of 1900 (part).. 44,838.39

38,500.00 William E. Oaborn Fund 38.500.00

6,000.00 John Sherman Fund 6.000.00

200,000.00 John D. Rockefeller Fund 200,000.00

10,000.00 E. A. and C. B. Shedd Fund.... 10,000.00

10,000.00 Marcus Lyon Fund 10.000.00

) 5,000.00 Warner Gymnasium Endowment 6,000.00

10,000.00 OIney Fund 10,000.00

1,903.97 Keith Fund 2,803.97

Kora F. Barnes Fund 5,000.00- 666,395.08

2,703.31 C. N. Pond Fund 2,711.67

6,964.55 Dutton Fund 6,818.85

2.927.43 Prunty Fund 2.917.94

259.99 Finney Fund 254.49

,645.54 Davis Fund 596.52

7.787.89 Dascomb Fund 7.586.70

Amounts carried forward $20.886.07— $666,395.08

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Amounts brought forward |20,886.07 — 1666,395.08

433.36 Warner Fund 424.16

68,510.75 C. V. Spear Fund 67,61».26

»73.97 Gillett Fund 900.72

6.341.63 R088 Fund 6,321.03

4,409.71 Gilchrist Fund 4,371,37

21,844.46 Marx Straus Fund 20,392.99

5,165.90 Mary A. Springer Fund 5,182.09

4.970.64 Collins Fund 4,959.23

6,469.33 Cooper Fund 6,469.86

2.023.09 Williams Fund 2,020.19

1,005.90 Hotchkiss Fund 994.18

9,866.40 Firestone Fund 9.839.98

971.11 Edward West Fund 977.72

813.50 McClelland Fund 807.55

1,000.00 Parker Fund 988.00

Johnson Fund 2,000.00 — 14S,154.40

1,000.00 Cowles Memorial Scholarship.. 1,000.00

1,100.00 Dr. A. D. Lord Scholarship 1,100.00

1,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth W. R. Lord

Scholarship 1,000.00

1,045.00 H Inchman Fund 1,045.00 — 4,145.00

6,000.00 Lydia Ann Warner Scholarship. 5,000.00

1,000.00 F. V. Hayden Scholarship 1,000.00

6,000.00 Avery Fund 6,000.00

1,250.00 Finney Scholarship 1,250.00

1,000.00 Howard Valentine Scholarship. 1,000.00

1,000.00 Caroline Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Talcott Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Metcalf Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Dodge Scholarship 1.000.00

1,000.00 Dascomb Scholarship 1.000.00

1,000.00 Blerce Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Graves Scholarship 1,000.00

750.00 Lewis Nelson Churchill Scholar- >

ship 750.0e

200.00 Ann Lincoln B^md 200.00

Amounts carried forward |22,200.00 — 1815,649.48

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Amounts brought forward $22,200.00 — $815,649.48

579.78 Jones Loan Fund 8U.28

1,250.00 Mary E. Wardle Scholarship... 1,250.00

6,500.00 Dr. Dudley Allen Fund 6,500.00

1,000.00 Henry N. Castle Scholarship... 1,000.00

1,025.00 Class of '58 Scholarship 1,025.00

815.50 Class of '69 Scholarship 815.50

1,000.00 Class of '98 Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Jean Woodward Irwin Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Howard Gardner Nichols Schol-
arship 1,000.00

1,000.00 May Moulton Memorial Fund.. 1,000.00
1,000.00 John Manning Barrows Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

Julia Clark Davis Scholarship.. 1,000.00

Lucy M. Thompson Scholarship 2,000.00

500.00 May Moulton Loan Fund 302.33

130.00 Trustee Scholarship Fund (part) 130.00
326.50 Scholarship Loan Fund (part) . 80.00 — |42,114.U
909.47 Unused income, above scholar-
ships 399.64

81,466.37 C. Q. Finney Memorial Fund. . . . 83,793.49

2,868.37 Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 2,964.37

510.12 Lewis Fund 509.6(^ 87.267.46

23,984.84 Balance credits, sundry accounts 39,114.43
COLLEGE

67,595.59 Endowment 67,595.59

19,634.41 Dascomb Professorship 19,634.41

50,000.00 Stone Professorship 50,000.00

55,881.37 Fredrlka B. Hull Professorship. 55,881.37

30,000.00 Graves Profeffsorship 30,000.00

30.000.00 Brooks Professorship 30,000.00

23,748.25 Monroe Professorship 23,748.25

25,000.00 James F. Clark Professorship.. 25,000.00

Amounts carried forward $302,223.62 — $984,590.12

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Amounts brought forward $302,223.62 — |984,590.1S

20,000.00 Perkins Fund 20,000.00

25,000.00 Avery Professorship 25,000.00

40,000.00 L. H. Severance Professorship.. 40,000.00
Adelia A. Field Johnston Pro-

12,039.23 fessorship 12,039.23

6,196.00 Severance Laboratory Fund 6,196.00

Henry Willard Fund 100.00 —405,558.8S

1.14 G. F. Wright Research Fund.. 1.14

1,000.00 Jennie M. Wiillame Scholarship 1,000.00
6,000.00 Eilen M. Whitcomb Scholarship 6,000.00
1,000.00 Flora L. Blackstone Scholarship 1,000.00

500.00 Tracy-Sturges Scholarship 500.00

1,500.00 E. A. West Fund 1,500.00

1,000.00 Harvey H. Spelman Scholarship 1,000.00
1,000.00 Lucy B. Spelman Scholarship.. 1,000.00
1,000.00 Janet Whitcomb Scholarship... 1,000.00
1,000.00 Mrs. F. E. Tracy Scholarship... 1,000.00
5,000.00 Frank Dickinson BaiHIett Schol-
arship 5.000.00

2,000.00 Andover Scholarships 2,000.00

1.000.00 J. C. Wilder Scholarship 1.000.00

2,500.00 The Comfort Starr Scholarship

B\ind 2,500.00

Sarah M. Hail Scholarships.... 500.00 ^$25,000.00
322.10 Unused income, above scholar-
ships 391.10

858.54 Balance credits, sundry accounts 748.38

ACADEMY
22.44 Balance credits, sundry accounts 38.77

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

34.281.88 Endowment 34.031.88

21,371.10 Finney Professorship 21.371.10

8.935.84 Morgan Professorship 8,935.84

Amounts carried forward $64.338.82 — 11,416.328.36

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Amounts brought forward |64,338.82 — $1,416,328.36

25,000.00 Holbrook Professorship 25,000.00

21,707.00 M ichigan Professorship 21,707.00

4,750.00 Place Fund 4,750.00

3,495.55 Burrell Fund 3,495.55

133.39 Hudson Fund 133.39

1,000.00 Joshua W. Weston Fund 1,000.00

Wnib C. Chapin Fund 7,150.00

Henry Wlllard Fund 100.00—127,674.76

3,790.07 West Fund 3.621.99

5,000.00 Lemuel Brooks Scholarship 5,000.00

1,500.00 Jennie M. Rosseter Scholarship 1,500.00

1,000.00 McCord-Glbson Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 John Morgan Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Palnesvllle Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Oberlln First Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Oberlln Second Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Anson G. Phelps Scholarship... 1,000.00

1.000.00 Butler Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Miami Conference Scholarship. 1,000.00

1,250.00 Tracy Scholarship 1,250.00

1,000.00 Sandusky Scholarship 1,000.00

1,250.00 Leroy H. Cowles Scholarship... 1,250.00

1,000.00 Charles E. Fowler Scholarship. 1,000.00

700.00 Emerson Scholarship 1,250.00

291.95 Suean S. Button Fund 291.95 —20,541.95

964.85 Unused income,a bove scholar-
ships 1,095.99

655.75 Balance credits, sundry accounts 599.45

CONSERVATORY

80,419.50 Fenelon B. Rice Professorship. 30,419.50

25,090.16 Reserve Fund 21,532.69

383.25 Loan Fund 133.69 — 52,0S5.SS

Amount carried forward |1,621»948.38

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Amount brought forward 11,621,948.38

UBRARY

I 21.00 Library Fund $ 21.00

827.00 Class of '85 Fund 827.00

600.00 Cochran Fund 500.00

500.00 Grant Fund 600.00

500.00 Hall Fund 500.00

100.00 Henderson Fund 100.00

11,176.63 Holbrook Fund 11,176.63

500.00 Keep-Clark Fund 500.00

1,000.00 Plumb Fund 1,000.00

5,724.13 E. K. Alden Fund 5,724.13

100.00 Andrews Fund 100.00

2.152.50 Faculty Fund 2,152.50

E. A. West Fund 1,000.00

T. E. Burton Fund 250.00—$ 24,351.26

1,442.89 Balance credits, sundry ac-
counts ' * 1,941.63

SPECIAL
522.50 Foltz Tract Fund 524.00

11,616,317.24 Total funds and balances $1,648,765.27

Total Increase of funds and
balances $32,448.03

Liabilities
18,094.47 Deposits and personal accounts 21,945.06

$1,634,411.71 $1,670,710.33

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The foregoing Funds and Balances are invested in the following
properties:

NOTES AND MORTGAGES dirtributcd as follows:

Cleveland $29,268.86

Akron 23,600.00

Oberlin ^. . . . 43,0x7.37

Columbus 10,600.00

Lorain 60,700.00

Tallmadge z,ooo.oo

Wellington 300.00

Elyria 4,250.00

Collinwood 6,000.00

Farm lands in Ohio 70,465.00

Total in Ohio $249,201.23

Topeka 2oaoo

Eureka 500.00

Hutchinson 5,3oaoo

Wabaunsee 350.00

Farm lands in Kansas 20,283.00

Total in Kansas 26,633.00

Matthews 7,3x5.00

Farm lands in Indiana 3i975-oo

Total in Indiana xx,29aoo

Grand Rapids xx,6oo.oo

Farm lands in Michigan 27,9x5.00

Total in Michigan 39>5i5-oo

Chicago 1x7,000.00

Duluth 12,700.00

Des Moines 940.00

Davenport 20,000.00

Farm lands in Iowa xx,ooo.oo

Total in Iowa 31,940.00

Farm lands in Nebraska 400.00

Total notes and mortgages.... $488,679^3

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Amount brought forward $488,679.33

STOCKS AND BONDS—

$10,00000 Aurora, Elgin k Chicago Ry. Co. bonds. .$ 91556.25

aOfOoaoo Cleveland k Eastern Ry. Ca bonds 18,000.00

za,ooo.oo. .Elyria Building Ca bonds 12,000.00

z,ooaoo Euclid Heights Realty Co. bond x,ooaoo

z,ooaoo First Nat. Bank, Wellington stock.... 1,250.00
25,ooaoo Gilchrist Transportation Co. bonds. . . . 23,041.00
25,000.00 Great Lakes k St. Lawrence Transpor-
tation Co. bonds 23,181.50

30,000.00 Home Riverside Coal Mining Co. bonds 25,000.00

10,000.00 Lake Shore Electric Ry. Co. bonds 8,25000

10,000.00 Maple Leaf Land Co. bonds 9,500.00

4,000.00 New Orleans & Great Northern Ry. bonds 4,000.00

30,00000 Northampton Portland Cement Co. bonds 30,000.00

10,00000 Northern Ohio Traction Co. bonds 10,00000

13,50000 Oberlin Gas k Electric Co. bonds 13,500.00

25,000.00 Ontario Power Co. bonds 23,875.00

25,000.00 Roby Coal Co. bonds 25,000.00

25,000.00 Steel Steamship Co. bonds 24,75000

30,00000 Syracuse Rapid Transit Co. bonds 27,000.00

5,50000 Tuscarawas Ry. Co. bonds 5,50000

20,00000 United States Coal Co. bonds 19,200.00

z6,ooooo United States Telephone Co. bonds. . . 13,225.00

5,000.00 Cuyahoga Telephone Co. bonds 4,012.50

10,000.00 Wcllraan-Scavcr-Morgan Engineering Co.

bonds 10,00000

20,000.00 Western Ohio Ry. Co. bonds 15,825.00

30,000.00 Wheeling Traction Co. bonds 30,00000

25,000.00 Youngstown Iron, Sheet k Tube Co.

bonds 25,000.00

Total stocks and bonds ^$411,666.25

COLLATERAL LOANS $282,078.97
REAL ESTATE—

Ashtabula (city property) $ 834.00

Oberlin (cit>' property) 134,252.73

Amounts carried forward $135,086.73 $1,18242445

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Amounts brought forward $x35t086.73 $1,183,434^.5

Cleveland (city property) 7,600.00

Akron (city property) 12,000.00

Toledo (city property) z,ooaoo

Elyria (city property) 136.00

Total in Ohio $155,823.73

Grand Rapids (city property) 11,149.00

Farm lands in Michigan 10,578.00

Total in Michigan 21,727.00

Topeka- (city property) 20,219.62

Farm lands in Kansas 21,812.70

Total in Kansas 42,032.32

Fargo (city property) $ 3,6oaoo

Chicago (city property) 10,000.00

St. Paul (city property) 1,319.10

Matthews (city property) 1,610.38

Farm lands in Florida 200.00

Farm lands in Washington 475.00

Total real estate 236,786.59

SUNDRIES—

Construttion acct. Baldwin Cottage (loan) $ 11,965.41

Construction acct. Talcott Hall (loan) 13,07546

Advances to Lord Cottage x,77i.89

Advances to Stewart Hall i,573.66

Advances to Keep Home 1,609.46

Advances to English Theological Course 1,088.74

Advances to Scholarships 130.13

Furnishings Park Hotel 4,588.08

Unexpired insurance 3,151.98

Time deposits (Savings & Trust Companies).. 19,000.00

Bills receivable 21,861.64

Sundry accounts 120,043.94

Loan to General Fund 10,950.89

2x0,811.38

Deposits subject to check and cash 40,688.07

$i,670,7ia33

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SUMMARY OF ASSETS

Notes and Mortgages $ 488,^79.23

Stocks and Bonds 411,666.25

Collateral Loans 282,078.97

Real Estate , 236,786.53

Sundries 2io,8ii.2S

Cash 40,688.07

$1,670,7x0.33
Buildings and Equipment (see page 234) . . .* 75if95o.oo

$2,422,660.33

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The following properties in use for College purposes are not entered
in the foregoing list of assets, and are not valued on the Treasurer's
Books* The values given are reasonable estimates based on their cost and
present condition:

Spear Libraiy $ 3o,ooaoo

French and Society Halls 14,00000

Peters Hall 75/xxxoo

Warner Hall 130,00000

Council Hall 75,000.00

Sturges Hall io,ooar>o

Talcott Hall and furniture 65,000.00

Baldwin Cottage and furniture 40,00000

Lord Cottage and furniture 24,000.00

Stewart Hall 4,00000

Keep Home 3,000.00

Other houses and College grounds 8,00000

Library 50,000.00

Woman's Gynmasium 8,000.00

Physical and Chemical Apparatus 15,00000

Museum 25,00000

Botanical Collection 7,50000

Musical Library 3,00000

Musical Instruments and Apparatus 46,0000c

Arboretum 2,ooono

Athletic Grounds 2,95000

Severance Chemical Laboratory 69,50000

Warner Gymnasium , 45,000.00

$75«.950-<»

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REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE 235

REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE FOR THE
YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1905

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College : —

Your G)mmittec have personally examined all bonds, notes,
mortgages, certificates of stock, deeds and other evidences of prop-
erty which were on hand at the beginning of the present year, and
also all securities held as collateral for loans.

We find that all are now in the hands of the Treasurer or are
fully accounted for, and all payments of principal endorsed on
any of the securities and all payments for real estate sold, have
been properly credited on the books of the College.

Your Committee also employed the services of Mr. A. J.
Horn, of Cleveland, an expert accountant and auditor, who made
a systematic audit of the books, as shown by the following report
submitted to us:

**Thc Cash Balance as shown by the Treasurer's cash account was
verified, (a) By actual count of money in safe,
(b) By reconciliation of bank balances.

"All disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash Books were check-
ed with vouchers and other voucher evidence.

"All receipts and disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash Books
were carefully refooted and extensions examined.

"All entries appearing on said Cash Books were found correctly post-
ed, as verified by the casting of balances in the Trial Balance, which
was carefully rechecked with Ledgers.

"All detailed sheets of investments and real estate were compared
with respective controlling accounts on Ledger."

The accounts and archives of the Treasurer's office are kept
with system and accuracy equal to that of the best business houses.

(Signed) Irving W. Metcalf^
E. J. Goodrich^

Auditing Committee.

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236 ACTIONS OF THE TRUSTEES

ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MEETING OF THE
TRUSTEES. NOVEMBER 22. 1905

There were present: President King, Messrs Allen, Coch-
ran, Cowles, Fitch, Gates, Goodrich, Hall, H. H. Johnson, Met-
calf, Ryder, Shedd, Strong, Tenney, and Troup.

The election of trustees resulted as follows:

Dr. Sydney D. Strong, Oak Park, III., reelected by the alumni, full
term.

Mr. H. Clark Ford, Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. Homer H. Johnson, Cleve-
land, Ohio; and Mr. James O. Troup, Bowling Green, Ohio, reelected
for the full term.

Mr. Charles Win f red Savage was appointed Associate Pro-
fessor of Physical Training and Director of Athletics for two
years, beginning September i, 1906.

The trustees present at the meeting subscribed $1,400 for the
addition of a third story at the Women's Gymnasium, the esti-
mated cost being $3,500, and the Assistant to the President was
directed to confer with the other members of the Board in an ef-
fort to secure the remainder of the necessary amount. It was
voted to proceed with the remodeling of the Gymnasium when the
entire amount is raised.

A recommendation from the Dean of College and Graduate
Women that the investment funds of the college be used for the
construction of additional dormitories for women was referred to
the Council, and to the Prudential and Investment Committees,
for investigation and report at the June meeting.

The members of the advisory committees, whose terms ex-
pire January i, 1906, were reelected.

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Ind

Academy, report of Principal, 45,175;
instruction in, 144,201 ; methods of
work, 175; athletics in, 175; board-
ing houses for, 176.

Administration Building, need of, ziz.

Administrative Offices, changes and
appointments, 31; reports of, 34.

Admission, of students, 115; and class-
ification, 117; to advanped stand-
ing, 118; as freshmen and college
specials, 119; subjects presented by
freshmen for, 124; credits of con-
servatory students for, 127, 173.

Advisory Committees, 12, 90.

Advisory Officer, report of, 4a.

Alumni, Committee for Supemsion of
Appeals to, 23, 89; deaths of, 85;
Quinquennial Record, 87; Living
Endowment Union, 88; closer re-
lations with, 88; Bureau of Ap-
pointments, 89; Alumni Record, 90;
Alumni Day, 89; vote for Alumni
Trustee, 134.

Alumni Magazine, 68.

Alumni Record, 90.

Alumni Trustee, vote for, 134,

Anatomy, instruction and attendance,
189.

Appointments, new, 60; Bureau of,
89.

Arboretum, improvements of, 48, 107,
187.

Archaeology, Classical, 191.

Artist Recitals, 45, 104, 173.

Art, History of, work of department,
79-

Assigning Officer, 44.

Assistant to the President, Appoint-
ment of, 17; report of, 34.

Astronomy, and Physics, work of de-
partment, 75,189.
Athletic Association, report of, 144.

Athletics, 94; report of Association,
144; academy, 175; men engaged,
in, 181.

Attendance, 91.

Auditing Committee, report of, 235.

Baldivin Cotage, burning of, 21, 160,
187.

Bequests, 26.

Beneficiary Funds, Secretary's report
on, 129.

Bible, English, work of department,
74, 187, 189.

Bibliography, 190.

Botany, work of department, 76, 190,
201.

Budget, 20.

Buildings and Grounds, report of
Superintendent, 48, 187; Campus^
24, 107, 187; Arboretum, 48, 96,
187; Heating Plant, 88; Finney
House, 188; Sturges Hall, 188;
Council Hall, 188; Spear Library,
188.

Bulletin of Oberlin College, publica-
tion, ZI2.

Bureau of Appointments, 89.

By-Laws, revision of, 16.

Campus, improvements of, 24, 107^
187.

Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, gifts of, 24.

Catalogue, 88, 103, 112.

Chapel, Finney Memorial, 22, 188;
use of First Church as, 23.

Charter and By-Laws, 16.

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INDEX

Chemistry, work of department, 76,
190.

Christian Evidences, 191,

Church History, 199.

Colleges, relations to other, 101.

Colored Students, number of, 139.

Committees, List of, for 1905-06, 6;
on Codification, 16,65; Trustee, 17;
Prudential, actions of, 21 ; on
Chapel, 22; on Supervision of Ap-
peals to Alumni, 23; on Placing
of Teachers, 65; Advisory, on Eco-
nomics, 80; Advisory, 12, 90; on
Failure in Scholarship, 96; on Re-
ligious Work, 98; on Secondary
Schools, loi.

Codification, Committee on, z6.

Comparative Religions, 20a

Concerts, Lectures and, 104.

Conservatory, Financial relation to the
college, 20; admission credits of
students in, 127; report of Direc-
tor, 44, 171; Faculty changes, 171;
organ, 171 ; orchestra, 172 ; new
courses, 172; Artist Recitals, 173;
students in, 173; instruction in,

174.
Constituency, breadth of, 92.

Correspondence, with students, Z15.

Council Hall, repair of, 39, 155, 188.

Dean of College and Graduate Men,
report of, 39, 156.

Dean of College and Graduate Wo-
men, report of, 40, 160.

Dean of the Theological Seminary, re-
port of, 38, 154.

Deaths, of Professor A. A. Wright, 52 ;
Dr. Kelsey, 54; Judge Steele, 54;
other deaths, 85.

Debate, Oratory and, 73; in Academy,
175-

Declamation, 201.

Degrees, Honorary, 21; requirements,
for, 68; conferred, 136, 166.

Departments of Instruction, compara-
tive enrolment in, 84, 141.

Director of Conservatory of Music,
report of, 44, 171.

Directory, of Faculty and studeats,
103, 114.

Discipline, 95, 156, 160.

Donors, 23.

Dormitories, residence limited in, 2a»
160; need of additional, 161, 236.

Dravnng and Painting, work of de-
partment, 74.

Economics and Sociology, work of de-
partment, 80, Z91.

Electives, 42, 84, 168.

Endowment, Half-Million Fund, 23;
of new Library, 24, 38; other giftt
to, 27; increase in, 36; Summaiy
of, 213.

English, work of department, 73, 191,
192, 202.

Enrolment, increase in, 91; college^
116; analysis of, 116; classifica-
tion of, 117; general, 137; Fall of
Z905, Z40; in Conservatory, 173.

Entrance Credits, requirements, 123.

Equipment, Material, 106; contribu-
tion of the College to the town,
107 > gains, 108.

Examination Week, 68.

Faculty, deaths, 52; resignations, 55;
leave of absence, 55; promodona,
57; re-appointments, 59; new ap-
pointments, 60; organization, 65;
important official actions, 66; re-
ports, 69; methods, 84; publica-
tions, 49, 69, 72, 73, 74, 79, 8a.

French, 192, 203.

Funds, beneficiary, 129; loan, 132;
for student employment in Semi-
nary, 154.

Gains, in material equipment, 108;
in enrolment of students, 141.

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239

Geology, work of department, 78, 82,
193.

German Language and Literature,
work of department, 71, 193, 203.

Gifts, reported by the treasurer, 26;
other, 27.

Graduates, age of, 93.

Greek, and Greek Archaeology, work

of department, 70, 194, 203.
Gymnasia:

Men's Gymnasium, report of Di-
rector, 47, 179; finances, 179;
use oiF, 180; work of, z8o; in-
struction in, 181; needs of, 47,
182; Teacher's Course in Phys-
ical Training, z8a; out-door,
182.
Women's Gymnasium, report of
Director, 47, 183; use of, 184;
needs of, 184; Gymnasium and
Field Association, 185; Teach-
er's Course in Physical Train-
ing, 185; courses in, 186; addi-
tion to, 236.

Gymnasium and Field Association,
185.

Half-Million Fund, 23, 109.

Harmony of Science and Revelation,
work of department, 82, 200.

Health, of students, 94; of women,
160.

Heating Plant, Central, 188.

High Schools, sending students to
Oberlin, 119.

History, work of department, 79, 194,
203; of Art, 79.

Homiletics, work of department, 74,
200.

Influence, Outside, 103; College pub-
lications, 103; Faculty publications,
104; lectures and concerts, 104;
outside work and lectures, zo6.

Instruction, statistics of, 141, 166 189;
Departments of, 84, 141 ; in Acad-
emy, 144, 201 ; in Conservatory,
174; in Seminary, 199.

Instruction Units, 84, 141.

Kelsey, Rev, F, D., death of, 54; gifts,
from, 28.

Languages, instruction in, 69-75; He-
brew, 69; Greek, 69; Latin, 70;
German, 71; English, 72.

Latin Language and Literature, work
of department, 70, 194, 204.

Leave of Absence, 55.

Lectures, and Concerts, Z04; and out-
side work, 106; Summer School,
177.

Librarian, report of 37, 146.

Library, Patton k Miller, Architects,
for new Carnegie Library, ai;
hours open, 87; condition of, 146;
growth of, 146; additions to, 147;
work of the year, 150; gains of
the year, X51.

Living Endowment Union, 88.

Loan Funds, Secretarjr's report on,
129.

Material Equipment, 106; contribu-
tions to town by College, 107;
gains, 108; needs, 108.

Mathematics, work of department, 75,
190, 195, 204.

Men, proportion of, report of Tnit-
tee Committee on, z8; Secretary's
report on, 137; Dean's report 00,
157-

Mineralogy, 195.

Museum, removal of, 77; gifts to, a8,
29.

Music, 196.

Necrology, 85.

Needs, 108.

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INDEX

Nev) Testament Language and Liter-
ature, work of department, 69,
199.

Ohio, students from, 139.

Old Testament Language and Litera-
ture, work of department, 69, 154,
199.

Olney Collection, 21.
Oratory and Rhetoric, work of depart-
ment 73, 196, 200.
Outside Work and Lectures, 34, 49,

69» 70» 73» 74, 75, 7^, 79, 82, ^3,
89, X06, 185.

Painting, Drawing and, 74.

Pedagogy, work of department, 81,
196.

Phi Beta Kappa, 67.

Philosophy and Psychology, work of
department, 80,82,196.

Political Science, recommendation of
Advisory Committee, 19; of Pro-
fessor Carver, 80, 197.

Psychology, Philosophy, and, 80, 82,

X96
Physical Training, Physiology and,

78, 197; Teacher's Course, for

men, 18, 182, 198; for women,

185, 198.
Physics and Astronomy, work of de-
partment, 75, 197, 205.
Physiology and Physical Training,

work of department, 78, 197.
President, report of, 15-110; work of,

48; Luncheon to Faculty.
Professional and Technical Schools,

relation to, 103.
Promotions, 57.
Prudential Committee, 11; important

actions of, 21.
Publications, College, 85, 87, 103, 112;

Faculty, 49, 69, 73, 74, 79, 82, 172;

students, 103.
Quinquennial Record, 87.

Re-appointments, 59.

Records, official and statistics, 134.

Registrar, report of, 43, 166; statistics
of Class of 1905, x66; non-return
of students, 167; special students,
168; electives, 168; work of, 169.

Relations, to other education, and oth-
er educational institutions, zoi;
secondary schools, loi ; profession-
al and technical schools, 103.

Religious life, 98.

Reports, see Contents, 3; first semes-
ter, for freshmen, 126.

Resignations, 55.

Reunion Fund, igoo, 26.

Rhetoric, Oratory and, 73.

Romance Languages and Literatures,
work of department, 71, 192, 198,
203.

Savage, Mr, C. W,, appointment of,
236.

Scholarship, failure in, 96, 169.

Scholarships, gp-aduate, 97; Secretary's
report on, 129.

Secondary Schools, relation to, loi.

Secretary, report of, 111-145.

Shop work, 19.

Slavic Department, work of depart-
ment, 82, 154, 2oa

Social Life, 97.

Sociology, Economics and, 80, 191.

Spanish, 198.

Specials, college, 119, 168.

Statistics, official records and, 134; of
instruction, 141; of enrolment, 137^
166; of Class of 1905, 166; of in-
struction and attendance, 141, 189.

Students, attendance, 91; breadth of
constituency, 92; proportion of wo-
men, 92; age of graduates, 93;
health, 94; athletics, 94; discipline,
95; scholarship, 96; graduate
scholarships, 97; social life, 97;
religious life, 98; admission of.

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241

115; classificatioii of, 117; admit-
ted to advanced standing, 1x8; ad-
mitted as freshmen and college
specials, 119; non-return of, 129,
167; general enrolment, 137; from
Ohio, 139; number of colored, 139;
employment fund for, in Seminary,
154; in Conservatory, 173; in Sum-
mer School, 178.

Subjects, presented by freshmen for
admission, 124.

Summer School, report of Chairman,
177; courses in, 177; students in,
177; finances of, 177; lectures be-
fore, 177.

Teacher's Course, in Physical Train-
ing, 18, 182, 185, 197, 198.

Technical Schools, relation to, 103.

Theological Seminary, report of Dean,
38, 154; Old Testament Depart-
ment, 154; Slavic Department, 154;
student employment fund, 154; at-
tendance, 154; growth, 155; con-
stituency, 155; repair of Council
Hall, 39, 155; gifts to, 27, 155; in-
struction in, Z99.

Theology, work of department, 82,
199.

Town, contribution to by the College,
107.

Treasurer, report of, 36, 207.

Treasurer's Statement, gifts, 210; in-
vestment of funds, 230; income
and expense for the year, 215-223;
funds and balances, 224; summary
of assets, 233 ; buildings and equip-
ment, 234.

Trustees, list of, 5 ; resignations of,
15; election of, 15; work of, 16;
official actions, 17; vote for Alum-
ni Trustee, 134; actions, Novem-
ber 22, 1905; 236.

H^arner Hall, enlargement of, 171.

IVilliams, Mr. C. W,, appointment of,
17; report of, 34; work of, 154.

Women, proportion of, 92.

Women's Board, 11, 165.

Women's Department, report of, 40,
160; report of gymnasium, 47; en-
rolment in, 160; health of women,
160 ; discipline, 160; dormitories
for, 160; general exercises, 165;
Women's Board, 11, 165.

Wright, Professor A. A., death of, 22,
52; memorial pamphlet, 22; gifts
frohi, 29.

y. M, C. A., 99.

y. W. C. A., 99.

Zoology, work of department, 77, 198,
205.

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OBERLIN COLLEGE

ANNUAL REPORTS

OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE

TREASURER OF OBERLIN

COLLEGE FOR 1905-06

PRESENTED TO THE BOABD
OF TRUSTEES AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING, DECEMBER 5, 190C

OBERLIN, OHIO
PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE

December 15, 1006

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CONTENTS

Calendar ......

▼-vi

The Board of Trustees

▼ii

The College Admmislration, 1906-07

viii-ziii

Advisory Coroinittees .....

znr-zv

President's Report

1-116

I. Trustees ......

Death of Reverend Judson Smith

Ejection of Members ....

The Work of the Trustees

Important Official Actions ....

Prudential Committee Actions

II. Donors

The New Half Milfion Fund

Donors to Library Endowment

Gifts Reported by the Treasurer

Other Gifts

III. Administrative Officers ....

Reporto ......

The Work of the President

IV. Faculty ......

Resignations .....

Leave of Absence .....

Promotions .....

Reappointments .....

New Appomtments ...

Organization .....

Important Official Actions

Reports ......

Bibliography, Language, Literature, and Art

Mathematics and Sciences

History and Elconomics

Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Theology

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The Slavic Department

History and Criticism of Music .

Instruction Units.

V. Alumni .....

VI. Advisory Committees

VII. Students

VIII. Relations to Other Education and Educational

Institutions

106

IX. Outside Influence

107

X. Material Equipment

114

XL Needs

114

Reports of Oflficers.

117-219

Secretary .....

119

Librarian

16!

Dean of the Theological Seminary .

17!

Dean of College Men ....

174

Women's Department

!80

Dean of College Women .

182

Dean of Conservatory Women

184

Dean of Academy Women

187

Registrar . , . . .

188

Director of the Conservatoiy of Music .

193

Principal of the Academy .

200

Chairman of the Summer School

202

Director of the Men's Gymnasium

207

Director of Athletics ...

211

Director of the Women's Gymnasium

213

218

Statistics of Instruction and Attendance .

221-241

Treasurer's Report ....

. 243-270

Report of the Auditmg Committee

27!

Actions Taken at the Meeting of the Trustees, Dec. 5,

1906. 272

Charter and By-Laws ....

273-309

Alunmi Associations ....

. 311-313

Index

315-319

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CALENDAR

In the CoUeflre and Seminary departments the year is divided into, two semegUrw;
in the Academy, Conservatory, and Art departments the year is divided into three
Urnu.

College Yeab of 1006-07

1907
Thursday, January 3,

Thursday, January 24,

January 28-February 2,

Saturday,

February 2, noon,

Tuesday,

February 5,

Wednesday,

March 27, noon,

Wednesday,

Aprii 3,

Thursday,

May 9,

June 10-June 15,

Sunday,

June 16,

Monday,

June 17,

Tuesday,

June 18,

Wednesday,

June 19,

Thursday,

June 20,

Friday,

August 9,

Winter term begins.

Day of Prayer for Ck)lleges.

Final Examinations, First Se-
mester.

First semester ends.

Second semester begins.

Winter term ends.

Spring term begins.

Commencement, Theological Sem-
inary.

Final Examinations, Second Se-
mester.

Baccalaureate Sermon.

Semi-Annual Meeting of the
Board of Trustees.

Alumni Day.

Seventy-fourth
mencement

Annual Com-

Summer vacation l)eglns; Sum-
mer Session begins.

Summer Session ends.

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CALENDAR.

OoLLBOE Yeab of 1007-08
1907
Tuesday, September 17,

Wednesday, September 18,

1908
Wednesday, December 18, noon,
Wednesday, January 8,
Thursday, January 30,
February 3-February 8

Saturday, February 8, noon,

Tuesday, February 11,

Thursday, April 1, noon,

Wednesday, April 8,

Thursday, May 13,

June 20-25~Celebratioii of Seventy-

Thursday, June 25,

Registration of students begins.

Registration of students; First
semester begins; Fall term be-
gins.

Fall term ends.

Winter term begins.

Day of Prayer for Colleges.

Final Examinations, First
mester.

Se-

First semester ends.

Second semester begins.

Winter term ends.

Spring term begins.

Ck>mmencement, Theological Sem-
inary.

•fifth Anniversary

Seventy-flfth Annual Commence-
ment

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rev. henry CHURCHILL KING» DJD., Pbesident
TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1, 1907

Fbbdebick N. Finney, 8t. Louis, Mo.

Edwabo J. Goodrich Ol)erHnt O.

Louis H. Sevebance, yew York City.

LuciEN C. Wabneb,* LL.D., .... Neto York City.

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1908

William C. Cochban, Cincinnati, O.

Ret. Fbanklin S. Fitoh, D.D., . . . Buffalo, N. Y.

IBTINO W. Metgalf, Oherlin, O.

Mebbitt Stabb,^ Chicago, IlL

TERM EXPIRES JANUARA 1. 1909

Amzi L. Babbeb, Neto York City.

Chables F. Cox, New York City.

WiLLLAM N. Gates, Elyria, O.

Rev. Dan F. Bbadlet,' D.D., .... Cleveland, O.

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1910

Dudley P. Allen,* Cleveland, O.

John G. W. Cowles, LL.D., .... Cleveland, O.

Rev. Chables S. Mills, D.D., . . . . 8t. Louis, Mo.

Rev. Henby M. Tenney, D.D. , . . . . Olerlin, O.

TERM expires JANUARY 1. 1911

Hon. Theodobe E. Bubton,* LL.D., . . . Cleveland, O.

Rev. Chables J. Rydeb, D.D., .... New York City.

Chables B. Shedd Chicago, III.

Chables M. Hall, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1. 1912

H. Clabk Fobd, ...... Cleveland, O.

HoMEB H. Johnson, Cleveland, O.

Rev. Sidney D. Strong,* D.D Oak Park, III.

James O. Tboup, Bowling Qreen, O.

* Elected by the Alumni.

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THE COLLEGE ADMINISTE^TION- 1906-07
The Tbustees : Officebs and Ck)MMiTTEES

President, Henby Chubchill Kino

Assistant to the President, Chables W. Williams

Treasurer, James R. Sevebance

Secretary, Geobge M. Jones

Appointments: — Tenney, Allen, Ck)wles, Hall.

Auditing: — Troup, Tenney.

Honorary Degrees:— King, Ck>x, Fitch.

Investment: — King, Ford, Gates, H. 11. Johnson, J. R. Severance, L.
H. Severance.

Nomination of Trustees: — Warner, Cochran, Metcalf.
Prudential: — King, Doollttle, E. P. Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, G. M.
Jones, Morrison, Root, J. R. Severance, St. John, Swing, Williams.

JOINT COMMITTEES OF TBUSTEES AND FACULTT

AdminiRtration Building: — King, L. IT. Severance, Doollttle, G. M.
Jones, Peck. J. R. Severance, Miss Wolcott.

Art Building:— K\uir, D. P. Allen, W. N. Gates, C. S. Mills, L. H. Sev-
erance, Mrs. Johnston, Martin, St. John.

Biniof/irul Ficiciice Btfilding: — King, D. P. Allen, C. J. Ryder, Grover,
L. Jones, Leonard.

Cl.aprl: — Khm, H. IL Johnson, L. II. Severance, Doollttle, J. R. Sev-
erance. Morrison. Swing.

Ubi a ry:— Kins, I. W. Metcalf, Bosworth, Root, St. John.

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The Council : Officers and OoMMirrEES

GENERAL COUNCIL

Chairman, Kino
Vice-Chairman, Root
Clerk, G. M. Jones
Appointment of Instructors and Adjustment of Work: — King, Bos-
worth, Ck>le, Morrison, Peck, St John.
Budget: — Root, Bosworth, Jewett, King, Peck, St John.

COLLEGE COUNCIL

Chairman, King
Vice-Chairman, St. John
Clerk, G. M. Jones
Appointments: — King, Jewett, Root, St John. Wager.
Budget: — St John, Anderegg, Root

CONSERVATORY COUNCIL

Chairman, King
V ice-Chairman, Morrison
Secretary, Lehmann
Appointments: — Morrison,, Andrews, Carter, Sweet, Miss Wattles.
Budget: — Morrison, Heacox.

The Faculty : Officers and Committees

general faculty

President and Chairman — King

Vice-Chairman, Root

Clerk, G. M. Jones

Art Exhihition: — Martin, Cole, Mrs. Johnston, Lord, St John.

Athletics: — r^eonard. Miller, St John, Savage. [See also Regulations

of Athletic Sports.]
Care of Buildings: — See Committee of Prudential Committee.
Catalogue: — G. M. Jones, Bosworth, Peck, St John, Miss Wattles.
Chapel Seating:— MlUer, Mrs. Fargo, Miss Fitch, Fuilerton, Peck, Miss
Wolcott Mrs. Woodford,

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Commencement and Other Public Occasions:
i. General Arrangements — St John, Bosworth, Cowderyt Miss

Fitch, Grover, G..M. Jones, King, Leonard, Morrison, Pe<dc,

Root, Wager, Williams.
2, Entertainment of Guests — Morrison, Burr, Mrs. Fargo, Swing,
S. Processions and Seating — Wager, Cole, Hastings, Lord.
4» Alumni Dinner — Ck)wdery, Branson, Caskey, Jameson, Lnckey,

Manning, Mosher.

5. Decoration — Grover, Barry, Ghapin, Kimball, Miss Cakes, Miss

Thompson.

6. Distribution of Tickets — Leonard.

Conference on Professional or Technical Study: — St John, Fullerton,

Leonard, Wolfe.
Discipline: — Miller, Caskey, King, Morrison, Peck, St John, Wager.
General Art Interests: — Grover, Barry, Dickinson, Kimball, Miss

Cakes.
(Graduate Study and Degrees in Course:— Andereggt Cole, Fullerton,

Hall, MacLennan, Wolfe.
Gymnasium: — Men, Leonard, Miller, St John, Savage. Women, Miss

Hanna, Miss Abbott, Miss Hosford, Miss Monroe, Miss Wattles.
Honorary Degrees: — King, Bosworth, Root St John, Wager, Wright
Intercollegiate Debate: — Caskey, Hall, Root Wager, Wolfe.
Lectures and Entertainments: — Hall, MacLennan, Morrison, Mosher,

Swing, Wightman.
Library: — Root Bosworth, Dickinson, Grover, Hall, St John, Shaw,

Wager, Wightman, Wolfe.
Monthly Lectures: — King, Bosworth, St John.
Musical Interests: — G. M. Jones, Bosworth, Lord, Morrison, Peck.
Nominations: — King, Bosworth, Jewett St John.
Outside Representation and Newspaper Correspondence: — G. M. Jones,

Cole, Currier, Lord, Wager.
Petitions and Requests from Students: — ^Jewett Miss Fitch, L. Jones,

Miller, Morrison.
Printing and Clerk Hire: — G. M. Jones, Caskey, Miller, Peck, Miss

Wolcott
Regulation of Athletic Sports: — Faculty, St John, Miller, Savage;

Alumni, R. C. Bartholomew, *05 ; A. G. Comings, *77 ; G. C. Jame-
son; Students, J. L. Breckenrldge, '08; T. H. Harvey, '09; H. W.

Spiers, *07.

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Religious TForA;:— Bosworth, Andrews, Cole, Gowderjt Heacox, Miss
Hosford, Lnckey, Shaw, Sweet, Wright

Requests far Work with Private Teachers .'—Fetk, Miss Fitch, Mrs.
Fargo, Miller, Mrs. Woodford.

Secondary Schools: — ^Miller, G. M. Jones, MacLennan, Peck, St John.

Situations for (Graduates .'—Miller, Bohn, Miss Fitch, 6. M. Jones, Wa-
ger, Williams.

Social Occasions: — Grover, Miss Abbott Armstrong, Gowdery, Mrs.
Fargo, Miss Fitch, Jameson, Kimball, Myers, Shaw, Wightman.

Student Conferences: — King, Bosworth, Miller, Morrison, St John,
Wager.

Student Publications and Exercises: — Jewett, Gaskey, Wager.

Summer School: — ^MacLennan, Anderegg, Gole, Hall, Miller, Wolfe.

Supervision of Appeals to Alumni: — King, Bosworth, Dr. G. G. Jame-
son, G. M. Jones, Lord, Morrison, Root St John, Williams.

OOLLBOE FACULTT

President and Chairman, Kino

Dean and Vice-Chairman, St. Johk

Clerkj G. M. Jones

Dean of College and Graduate Men, Milleb

Dean of College and Graduate Women, Miss FncH

Assigning Officer, Gasket

Advisory Officer, Waoeb

Registrar, Miss Wolcott

Additional Work and Substitutions:— Ck)\e, Miss Abbott Anderegg,

Gowdery, Miss Fitch, Miss Hanna, Jewett Lord, Miller, Wager,

Miss Wolcott

Admission: — G. M. Jones, Miss Abbott Anderegg, Gole, Grover, Hall,

L. Jones, Lord, St John, Wager, Wightman, Miss Wolcott
Class Prayer-Meeting Leaders: — Seniors, Bosworth; Juniors, Hall;

Sophomores, Root ; Freshmen, King, Miss Fitch.
Course of Study: — Miller, MacLennan, Wager.
Failure in Scholarship :— Miller, Branson, Gole, Gowdery, Miss Fitch,

Miss Wolcott
Free Tuition and Beneficiary Aid: — Men, G. M. Jones, Anderegg, Jew-
ett Miller, Wightman. Women, Miss Hosford, Miss Abbott Mrs.
Fargo, Miss Fitch, Miss Hanna.
Nominations: — King, Anderegg, Jewett St John, Wager.
Schedules: — Gaskey, Anderegg, Grover, Lord, Wager.

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THEX)LOGICAL FACULTY

President and Chairman, Kma
Dean and Vice-Chairman, Bosworth
Secretary and Registrar, Fullebton

Advertising, Newspaper Correspondence, and Printing: — ^Bosworth,
Fullerton, Miskovsky.

Catalogue: — Fullerton, Bosworth.

Commencement: — Swing, Caskey, Currier, Miskoysky.

Council Hall: — Fullerton, Bosworth, Mlskovsky.

Curriculum: — Bosworth, Fullerton, Swing.

Endowment: — ^Bosworth, King, Currier, Swing.

Finance and Budget: — Bosworth, King, Swing.

Outside Representation and Lectures: — Swing, Fullerton, Wright

Pulpit Supplies: — Currier, Fullerton, Bosworth.

Scholarships and Loans: — Currier, King, Swing.

Slavic Department: — Miskovsky, Bosworth, Currier, Swing.

Student Employment Fund: — Currier, Bosworth, Wright

CONSEBVATOBY FACULTY

President and Chairman, Kino

Director and Vice-Chairman, Mobbison

Secretary, Lehmann

Dean of Conservatory Women, Mbs. Woodfobd

Artists* Recitals: — Morrison, Adams, Breckenrldge.

Graduation: — Morrison, Dickinson. Heacox, Mrs. Woodford, and other

teachers of candidate in question.

ACADEMY FACULTY

President and Chairman, Kino
Principal and Vice-Chairman, Peck

Secretary, Miss Hosfobd
Dean of Academy Women, Mbs. Fabgo
Appointments and Budget: — Peck, Miss Brownback, Miss Hosford,
Shaw, Miss Sniithe, Miss Thompson.

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Pbttdential Ck)MMrmx : Officebs and Committees

Chairman, Kinq

Secretary, G. M. Jones

Advertising: — G. M. Jones, Severance.

Arl)oretum: — Grover, Williams.

Boarding Balls: — ^Root, Jolinson, St John.

Budget:— ^oot, St Jolin, Swing.

Buildings and Grounds :—C. P. Doollttle, King, Morrison.

Janitors: — Botanical Lab,, Severance Lah., Geological Lab,, French,
Peters, Society, Spear, Sturges, C. P. Doolittle ; Men's Gymnasium,
Leonard ; Warner, Morrison ; Women's Gymnasium, Miss Hanna ;
Council, Boswortli.

Rented Buildings: — Doolittle, Morrison, Severance.

Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds: — C. P. Doolittle.

Use of Peters Hall:— St Jolin.

Use of Sturges Hall:—M\sa Fitch.

Use of Warner Gymnasium: — Leonard.

Use of Women's Chjmnasium: — Miss Hanna.

Use of Other Buildings:— C, P. Doolittle.

The Women's Boabd or Managers
Dean of College and Graduate Women: — Miss Florence M. Fitch.
Dean of Conservatory Women: — Mrs. Harmonia W. Woodford.
. Dean of Academy Women: — Mrs. Edith C. Fargo.
Term Expires 1907— Miss Arietta M. Abbott Mrs. M. J. P. Hatch.
Term Expires 1908 : — Mrs. Kate W. Morrison, Mrs. Alice M. Swing.
Term Expires 1909 : — Miss Frances J. Hosford, Miss Delphine Hanna.

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ADVISORY COMMITTBES

SBICINABT

Frank S. Fitch,* D.D., *70, 46 Lexington Ave., Bnffalo, N. Y., Cbair-

n^an.
Edward T.Harper,* '81, 730 West Adams St, Chicago, III
Casper W. Hiatt,* D.D., t *86, 820 Logan Ave., Cleveland, O.

ACADEMY

Merrltt Starr,' '75, 016 Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111., Chairman.
Oscar S. Kriebel,* *80, Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsbnrg, Pa.
Rovlllos R. Rogers,* '76, 627 East 6th St, Jamestown, N. Y.

CONSKBVATOBT

Lnclen C. Warner,* '65, 634 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Chairman.
Mrs. Helen Tnpper-Kinder ■ (Mrs. W. H.), c. '85, 824 Washington Ave.

Findlay, O.
George B. Siddall/ '01, 1015 Garfield Building, Cleveland, O.

DBAWINO AKD PAINTING

Irving W. Metcalf,' *78, Oberlin, O., Chairman.

Arthur S. Kimball," Oberlin, O.

Alfred V. Churchill,' h. '08, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

LIBBABT

Charles S. Mills,* D.D., h. '01, 5130 Westminster Place, St Louis, Mo.,

Chairman.
Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild* (Mrs. E. M.), 20 S. Pine Ave., Albany,

N. Y.
Charles P. Treat,* '70, 80 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

ANCIENT LANGUAGES

Dan F. Bradley,* DJD., '82, 2005 Fourteenth St, S. W., Cleveland, O.,

Chairman.
Sydney D. Strong,* D.D., '81, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Seattle.

Wash., Chairman.
A. B. Bragdon,' Monroe, Mich.

MODEBN LANGUAGES

Sydney D. Strong,* D.D., '81, Pilgrim Church, Seattle, Wash., CJhalr-

man.
William I. Thomas,* University of Chicago, Chicago 111.
Henry T. West," '01, Kenyon College, Gambler, O.

' Term expires January 1. 1908. * Term expires January 1. 1909.

* Term expires January 1, 1910.

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PHILOSOPHT

Henry M. Tenney,* D.D., Oberlin, O., Chairman.
Pitt G. Knowlton,* W, Fargo Ck)llege, Fargo, N. D.
Raymond H. Stetson,* '93, Beloit Ck)llege, Belolt, Wis.

HISTOBT

James O. Troup,* *70, Bowling Green, O., Chairman.
John R. Commons,* '88, 812 W. Jolinson St, Madison, Wis.
George B. Heazelton,' '79, Hayward Building, San Francisco, Cal.

MATHEMATICS

Homer H. Johnson,* '85, 1009 American Trust Building, Cleyeland, O.,

Chairman.
Walter N. Crafts," '92, Oberlln, O.
Albert M. Johnson," 2735 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.

THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dudley P. Alien,* '75, 260 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O., Chairman.
Charles J. Chamberlain,* '88, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.
Charles A. Kofoid,» '90, University of California, Berlceley, Cal.

THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

H. Clark Ford,* 917-921 Williamson Building, Cleveland, O., Chairman.
Charles M. Hall,* '85, 136 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Robert A. Mlllikau,* '91, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.

ATHLETICS, GYMNASIUM, AND PHYSICAL TBAININO FOB MEN

William C. Cochran,* 69, 313 Johnston Bldg., Cincinnati, O., Chairman.
Thomas D. Wood," '88, 500 W. 121st St, New York, N. Y.
James B. Dili,* 27-29 Pine St, New York, N. Y.

ATHLETICS, GYMNASITTM, AND PHYSICAL TBAININO FOB WOMEN

Charles F. Cox,* '69, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y., Chair-
man.

Miss Harriet L. Keeler,* '70, 93 Olive St, Cleveland, O.

Mrs. Agnes Warner Mastick* (Mrs. S. C), '92, 35 Mount Morris Park,
W., New York, N. Y.

ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND SOCIOLOGY

Hon. Theodore E. Burton,* '72, 709 Society for Savings Building,

Cleveland, O., Chairman.
Thomas N. Carver,* Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
E. Dana Durand,' '93, 3325 Holmead Place, Washington, D. C.

* Term expires January 1, 1908. • Term expires January 1, 1909.

' Term expires January 1. 1910.

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Annual Report for 1905-06

Presented by the President to the Trustees at the Annual
Meeting, December 5, 1906

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College:

Gentlemen : As President of the College I have the
honor to submit the following report, for the academic year
1905-06,

I. TRUSTEES

Death of Reverend Judson Smith, D,D,

It is once more necessary to begin this report with the
record of the death of one of the trustees.

Dr. Smith was born in Middlefield, Massachusetts, June
28, 1837, and died, after an illness of several weeks, from the
rupture of a blood vessel of the brain, at his home in Roxbury,
Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in the
class of 1859, and later received from his Alma Mater the
degrees of Master of Arts and of Doctor of Divinity. He
was a graduate of Oberlin Theological Seminary in the class of
1863. With the exception of two years, spent in teaching at
Williston Seminary, 1864-66, Dr. Smith's entire service as a
teacher was spent at Oberlin College. He served the College
in diflferent departments for a period of twenty years : as tutor
in Latin and Greek from 1862 to 1864; as Professor of the
Latin language and literature from 1866 to 1870 ; as Professor
of Church History in the Theological Seminary from 1870 to
1884, and at the same time — from 1872 to 1884 — as Lecturer on
General History in the College Department.

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In the year 1884, Dr. Smith resigned his professorship at
Oberlin to take an appointment as Secretary for the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and he con-
tinued in that important work up to the time of his death. He
did valuable service in visiting the missions of the Board in
Turkey in 1888, and the missions in Japan and China in 1898 ;
and he was chairman of the General Committee of the remark-
able Ecumenical Missionary Conference held in New York in
1900.

In 1891 he was elected by the alumni as one of their
representatives on the Board of Trustees and remained an alum-
ni Trustee to the time of his death — a period of fifteen years.
Dr. Smith was ordained to the ministry in the year 1866.

One. is not likely to overestimate what it means to an
institution, that there should be given to it thirty-five years of
the best service of such a man as Dr. Smith — twenty years as
an instructor, and fifteen years as a trustee. With high
standards of classical scholarship, Dr. Smith was an almost
ideal teacher of Latin. He was as well a stimulating lecturer
on history; and he brought to all his work in the College a
personality naturally strong and commanding. A man of
broad vision, he came to his work as Foreign Missionary
Secretary with marked historical feeling, and so always saw the
work of missions as a great world-wide movement. Always
the courteous Christian gentleman, clear, definite and pro-
nounced in his views, with extended experience in large affairs,
taking with serious consideration his duties as a trustee, he
could not fail to be an exceedingly valuable member of the
Board of Trustees, and he leaves a vacancv not easily to be
filled.

No one who came into contact with Dr. Smith could
fail to be impressed — to use the terms of his pastor. Dr.
Albert H. Plumb — with his courageous, exuberant, and ex-

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ultant spirit. And what he had to give personally in intimate
relations has been beautifully expressed in Dr. Plumb's tribute.
"It was an experience/* he says, "enlightening and exalting to
know him in the world of his home life. His face told the
story there, that classic face, glowing in every line with
thoughtful regard for each and all, lighting with sparkling
humor, with brilliant flashes of poetic sentiment, interpreting
his heart, as all found refreshment, solace, and cheer from the
ready utterance of his kind and wise lips."

There is appended for permanent record here the minute
which I have asked Dr. Tenney to prepare upon the death of
Dr. Smith for the Trustee records:

The death of the Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., which occurred at
his home in Boston, Mass., June 29, 1906, removes from the member-
ship of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College a man of rare cul-
ture and consecration, an honored and beloved co-worker, and a de-
voted friend of this Institution.

Dr. Smith's connection with Oberlin dates from the year 1859,
when, having recently completed his collegiate studies in Amherst
College, he entered the Oberlin Theological Seminary, from which he
was graduated with the Class of '63. During his Seminary course
and for a year thereafter he served as Tutor of Latin and Greek in
the College. In 1866 he was appointed to the Chair of Latin in the
College, which position he filled until 1870, when he was made Pro-
fessor of Church History and Positive Institutions in the Seminary.
After fourteen years of distinguished service in the Chair he was
called in 1884 to become Secretary for Foreign Correspondence of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In this ser-
vice he completed his life work, and at the time of his death stood as
one of the most conspicuous figures in the foreign missionary world.

Dr. Smith became a member of this Board in 1891, and during
the fifteen years of his connection with us has rarely been absent
from our meetings, has served upon our most important committees,
has been a wise and far-seeing counsellor, and has given unstintedly
of his best for the welfare of this Institution. While serving with
us, Dr. Smith has also been a Trustee of Wllllston Seminary, in which

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eK*booi he received his preparatory training, and of Mount Holyoke
College.

A man of commanding presence, of persuasive speech, of strong
and clear intellect and deep convictions, an honored and successful
teacher and Christian statesman of the highest type, a valued com-
panion and fellow laborer, the members of this Board express their
sense of the seriousness of his loss to the College, the Church, and
the world, and offer this tribute to his memory.

Election of Members

At the last annual meeting of the Board Mr. H. Clark
Ford, Mr. Homer H. Johnson, Dr. Sidney D. Strong, and
Mr. James O. Troup, were elected to succeed themselves for
the term ending January 1, 1912, Dr. Sidney D. Strong being
elected by the alumni as their representative for this term.

The terms of office of Mr. Frederick N. Finney, Mr.
Edward J. Goodrich, Mr. Louis H. Severance, and Dr. Lucien
C. Warner expire January 1, 1907. A successor to Dr. Lucien
C. Warner as Alumni Trustee for this term has already been
elected by vote of the alumni, and will be reported for the first
time, according to custom, at this meeting of the Board. The
Alumni Trusteeship for the term expiring Januuary 1, 1909,
was also made vacant by the death of Dr. Judson Smith. This
vacancy, too, has been filled by the election of the alumni. There
should be noted here the service which the Alumni Magazine is
rendering in its articles, in the October number, on the candi-
dates for Alumni Trustee. The alumni certainly ought to be
able to vote more intelligently in the light of these careful
articles. The successors of Mr. Finney, Mr. Goodrich and Mr.
Severance should be elected by the Trustees at the coming
meeting.

The Work of the Trustees

The Coftstitution and By-Laws as finally revised by the
Trustees at their last meeting, have now been put into print and

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appear as one of the documents included in these annual
reports. The College, thus, for the first time, has generally
accessible a full printed copy of the constitution and by-laws
under which its work is conducted. Last year, this report com-
mented on the importance of this codification, and expressed,
• as I wish once more to do, the indebtedness of us all to those
who have labored to bring this codification to successful
completion.

The past year has given renew|ed evidence of the interest
of the Trustees, and of the vigor of their services, in the in-
dispensable help rendered by them in bringing to successful
completion by July 1, 1^06, the new half-million fund. The
President and the Assistant to the President both wish to
recognize the invaluable contribution made, at the critical
point, by the confidence, en'' .tsiasm, resourcefulness and per-
sonal help of the members oi the Board. The College is to be
warmly congratulated that so large a movement could be suc-
cessfully carried through, without a campaign that should burn
the ground over and make almost impossible any further
financial effort for some time.

It is impossible for one to review the list of the Trustees
and to note the important and many-sided interests and en-
terprises in which they are engaged, and not get a fresh
appreciation of what it means to the College to have the benefit
of their time and thought and effort. They stand for the Col-
lege in a peculiarly authoritative and representative way.

The various Trustee committees call for considerable time
from the Trustees, but the College is particularly indebted to
those Trustees who serve so unstintedly through the year in
guarding the interests of the College in their work as members
of the Investment Committee.

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Important Official Actions

Especially for the benefit of the alumni and friends of the
College, there is here brought together a brief summary of the
more important actions of the Trustees during the year covered
by this report. Aside from the election of the members of the
Board, already given, and the appointments, a full list of which
will be found in a later section of the report, under the head-
ing Faculty, these actions may be summarized as follows :

At the Annual Meeting, November 22, 1905

Perhaps the most important single action of the Trustees
at this meeting was the vote to apply the income of $100,000
from the Boston donor, when that should become available,
towiard increasing the salaries of full professors to the extent
of $200 each. This action was taken upon the personal recom-
mendation of the President, and with the approval of the
Boston donor.

The $100,000 from the Boston donor came in during the
summer, and, in accordance with this action of the Trustees,
the Prudential Committee voted, August 4, that twenty-four full
professors have their salaries increased $200 per annum, begin-
ning September 1, 1906. In line with this increase of the
salaries of full professors in the other departments, and to re-
tain, as far as possible, the equality of the salaries of teachers
of the same rank in different departments, the Prudential Com-
mittee voted, October 18, upon the recommendation of the
Director of the Conservatory of Music, that the salaries of
full professors in the Conservatory should be $1600 per year
for the first five years of service as full professors, $1800 for
the next five years of service, and $2000 thereafter. In ac-
cordance with this action, the salaries of five professors in the
Conservatory of Music were increased by $200, these increases

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to take effect with the year beginning September 1, 1906. A
similar action was taken concerning the salary of the Director
of the Conservatory. In connection with the increase of the sal-
aries of professors, it should be noted that at the Semi- Annual
meeting of the Trustees it was also voted to adopt the general
policy that the salaries of college instructors be $800 for two
years, $900 for the next two years, and then $1000. This in-
volves an ultimate increase of $200 in the salaries of instructors.

1 am sure that few more important actions than this in-
creasing of salaries have been taken by the Trustees in recent
years. The Trustees have themselves long recognised the need
of such increase of salaries ; and, while it is true that the ad-
vance now made does not at all keep pace with the increase in
the cost of living, the action does register an important step
in the right direction. It should be clearly recognized, however
that there is great need that the salaries already advanced
should be still further increased, and that the salaries of other
teachers be brought up in proportion, if the health, efficiency,
and breadth of work and interest of the Faculty are to be
maintained at their best. I suppose that it is literally true to
say, that it is decidedly more difficult for the College professor
of today to meet the inevitable financial demands upon him,
than it was for the College professor of twienty-five years ago
to meet his similar demands. It is impossible at present for
the members of the Faculty to meet their general social obliga-
tions, and to get the facilities for work and the time for rest
and for growth that are essential to their widest usefulness.

An important step in the development of the dej>artment
of Physical Training was taken by the Trustees in the appoint-
ment of Mr. Charles Winfred Savage as Associate Professor
of Physical Training and Director of Athletics. This appoint-
ment looks to the bringing of the entire physical life of the men
under skilled supervision. Its full significance is pointed out

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in the report of Dr. Fred E. Leonard, Director of the Men's
Gymnasium.

Action was also taken looking to the remodeling and the
enlargement of the Women's Gymnasium, to meet the insistent
demands of the Course in Physical Training for Women, and
of the greatly increased numbers of women enrolled in the
College. The plan first presented to the Board of Trustees
was later changed by the Prudential Committee, under date of
May 21, to include, with Mr. Rockefeller's consent, the re-
modeling of the skating floor. This change provided greatly
increased facilities for a comparatively small increase of ex-
pense, and w/ill enable the College to meet, really very well, the
pressing needs of the women in this direction.

Upon the recommendation of the principal of the Academy
it was voted to approve, for a trial period of two years, a yearly
athletic fee of two dollars, to be collected, along with the regu-
lar term bills, from all the young men in the Academy. The
Academy Faculty believe that this is the best way in which the
difficult problem of Academy athletics can be effectively han-
dled under adequate supervision.

At the Semi- Annual Meeting, June 18, 1906

Besides passing upon the entire list of appointments for
the year, receiving reports from various standing committees
and approving the Faculty recommendations as to degrees
and diplomas, the Trustees, at the semi-annual meeting in June,
took action also upon the following important points :

It was voted that hereafter all reports and recommendations
that are to be presented to the Trustees, including the minutes
of the Board of Trustees and of the Prudential Committee, be
sent to each Trustee before the meeting at which they are to
be presented, and that these reports contain enough detail to
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connection with the preceding vote, the officers of the Col-
lege were directed to do everything in their power to reduce the
amount of time necessary to be devoted, in the Trustee meeting,
to routine business. Much of what is contemplated in this
motion, it should be said, has been already done ; but this action
represents a final step in the determination, shared by all the
officers of the College, that there should be put at the disposal
of the Trustees the fullest information possible in preparation
for their regular meetings, so that all actions of the Trustees
may be taken with full intelligence, and so that the exceeding-
ly valuable time of the regular meetings may be devoted as
fully as possible to measures looking to the further improve-
ment and development of the work of the College. .

It was voted that the date of the annual meeting hereafter
be the first Wednesday in December. This change was made
to avoid the date of the annual meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach-
ing, of which the President is a member.

In line with a like policy already adopted for the young
men, it was voted, upon the recommendation of the Faculty,
and in view of the greatly enlarged facilities of the remodeled
gymnasium, that a gymnasium fee of two dollars per year be
charged hereafter, for all young women of the institution.

In view of the result of the careful inquiry of the Pru-
dential Committee, and by their recommendation, it was voted
that the Trustees do not think it wise at the present time to use
the investment funds of the College for the erection of ad-
ditional dormitories for women.

It was voted that the g^fts from Miss Anne Walworth of
Cleveland for the Slavic Department, consisting of property es-
timated at $75,000 and $10,000 by bequest, be combined with
the previously existing Walworth Fund of $15,275, now

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listed in the University Endowment, the whole to form a new
fund to be known as the Anne Walworth Fund.

The President made a report upon the Carnegie Founda-
tion for the Advancement of Teaching, and presented for the
approval of the Board the following resolution required of insti-
tutions benefitting by the Foundation : '^Resolved, that no de-
nominational test is imposed in the choice of trustees, officers,
or teachers, or in the admission of students ; nor are distinctly
denominational tenets or doctrines taught to the students/' It
was voted to adopt this resolution in the form presented, and
the Secretary was directed to send a certified copy of this action
to the President of the Carnegie Foundation. The great value
to the College of the retiring allowances, so made possible, is
beyond all doubt.

A committee, consisting of Messrs. Allen and Tenney and
the President, was appointed to consider the question of the
age limit for the retirement of teachers who should receive the
retiring allowance under the terms of the Carnegie Foundation.

It wias voted to approve of the celebration, in June, 1908,
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College,
and the officers of the College were directed to go forward
with the necessary arrangements for this celebration.

It was voted to adopt the report of the special committee,
consisting of Dr. Warner, Dr. Tenney and Mr. Root, upon the
question of the financial relation of the Conservatory to the en-
tire institution, thus revising Section V, Article IV, of the By-
Laws.

The Trustees expressed their unwillingness to go on with
plans for the chapel that should provide for a seating capacity
of only fifteen hundred.

The budget for the college year following is always
adopted at the semi-annual meeting in June, and there is pre-*

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sented, therefore, at this point an outline of the budget for the
college year 1906-07.

Budget (or 1906-07
Income

University $ 27,339.00

College 67,050.00

Theological Seminary 12,720.00

Slavic Department 3,600.00

Academy 15,000.00

$125,709.00
Expenses

University $ 37,300.00

College 54,276.00

Seminary 13,023.00

Slavic Department 3,600.00

Academy 17,350.00

Total , $125,699.00

College Surplus 12,824.00

Deficit

University $ 9,961.00

Seminary 503.00

Academy 2,350.00

Total $ 12,814.00

Net Surplus 10.00

The Conservatory of Music

Income 65,165.00

Expenses 63,050.50

Conservatory Surplus $2,115.00

The budget, as adopted by the Trustees, goes into full de-
tail ; and it is worth saying once more, that by the vote of the
Trustees, January 23, 1902, the budget as adopted is to be

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"considered as appropriations, and the amount for various ex-
penses shall not be exceeded without the special authorization
of the Prudential Committee."

No honorary degrees were voted by the Trustees at this
meeting.

It should, however, be specially mentioned that the de-
gree of Bachelor of Music was conferred upon seventy-one per-
sons who graduated from the Conservatory previous to 190G.
These cases had all been carefully investigated by the Conser-
vatory Faculty, and were recommended as fully meeting the
requirements of the degree as now given.

Important Prudential Committee Actions

As the Prudential Committee is empowered by the Trustees
to act for them in interim, it is appropriate that a brief sum-
mary of the more important actions of that Committee, net
elsewhere covered in this report, should find record here,
since these actions become Trustee actions upon their approval
by the Trustees.

On December 14, 1905, in view of the gift of Miss Anne
Walworth for the Slavic Department, a committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the committee of the so-called Sialic
Department (for which the Trustees had hitherto assumed no
financial responsibility) to recommend the regular adoption of
the Slavic Department into the organization of the College,
and the precise financial relation that should exist between the
Department and the College. That committee reported April
2G, and the report of the committee was adopted. This im-
portant report is here given entire : —

Whereas, Miss Anne Walworth, of Cleveland, has recently given
to Oberlln College a sum estimated at $85,000.00, with the request
that the income be devoted to the Slavic Department, while such
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present time, and for the immediate future, seems especially needed ;
therefore

Voted, that we recommend to the trustees that the Slavic I>e-
partment, heretofore carried on by outside financial support, be as-
sumed as part of the work of Oberlin College, subject to the follow-
ing provisions: —

1. The said Slavic Department, so long as it shall exist, shall
be whoHy sustained from the Walworth endowment, and from such
other sums as may be given for this specific object

2. The income available for the Slavic Department shall be held
liable :

1st For direct expenses of the Department including instruction,
management, including traveling expenses; support of students; li-
brary and other equipment

2nd. For indirect expenses of the Department, including, —
charge for each student to cover his share of the general University
expenses; a charge for incidentals in the Theological Seminary, and
for room rent and use of Ck)uncll Hall by students or by the Depart-
ment ; a charge for all Instruction given to students of the Slavic De-
partment in the College, the Academy, or the Conservatory.

3. All income of the Walworth Fund not required to meet such
expenses is to be at the disposal of the Board of Trustees, in accord-
ance with the proviso of Miss Walworth's gift, which reads : "If the
whole amount of the income derived from the property is not required
for that department it is my wish that the Income derived from the
property may go to the different departments of the college in need
of it

4. The Slavic Department shall submit, each year, through the
Theological and General Councils, a budget which, when approved
by the Trustees, shall be the basis of expenditure for the year follow-
ing. No expenditure In excess of the budget shall be made, except
by the authority of the Tnistees, or their Prudential Committee.

5. The Slavic Department shall be In charge of a Head, to be
called the Principal of the Slavic Department, who shall have charge
of the Instruction and management of the Department, and shall is-
sue orders on the Treasurer of the College for expenses Incurred un-
der the budget, or by other authority from the Trustees.

6. For the present, the Department shall be connected with the
Theological Seminary and the determination of its different lines of

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work, and its policy shall be a part of the work of the Faculty of the
Theological Seminary.

In line with this report, Mr. L. F. Miskovsky, who had so
long served as Principal of the Department before its regular
incorporation in the College, was duly recognized as Princij>al
of the Slavic Department and Professor of the Bohemian Lan-
guage, with the salary of a full professor.

On January 11, 1906, the following important recommen-
dations from the Faculty with reference to the Summer School
were adopted:

(1) That for the various plans now in vogue of paying for in-
struction In the diflPerent kinds of courses there be substituted the
uniform plan of paying for all courses — College, Academy, Normal or
Training — a fixed salary without prospect of dividend from surplus
earnings; for the present year the salaries to be at the rate, for a
five-hour course, of $70 for a professor, $60 for an associate professor,
and $50 for an instructor.

(2) That in view of these changes, the Prudential Committee be
asked to sanction the use of the fund already granted by the Trus-
tees as a guarantee for the normal courses, as a guarantee on like
terms for the entire expense of the school; with the understand I us:
that any surplus shall then be the property of the College.

(3) That it be the policy of the Faculty, with the continued
growth of the Summer School, that the salaries of teachers shall ad-
vance to the ratio of $100 for a professor, $80 for an associate pro-
fessor, and $60 for an instructor.

The President thinks there can be no doubt that the policy
thus laid down for the Summer School is a distinct gain over
the various plans hitherto in vogue.

On March 8, it was voted to approve of carrying out the
general recommendations of Mr. J. H. Morgan, State Inspector
of Shops and Factories, with reference to fire-escapes and other
fire protection for college buildings.

In accordance with the recommendations of Professor-
elect Maynard M. Metcalf, it was also voted to approve of the

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necessary changes required for fitting Spear Library Building,
when it should be released by the Library, to meet the needs of
the Department of Zoology, the cost being estimated at about
$5,000.

The committee on the new library building were author-
ized to secure complete plans for the building from Patton &
Miller. In connection with this vote, it may be added that on
October 18, in view of the fact that none of the bids on the
library building came within the sum designated for the build-
ing, $125,000, it was voted to reject all bids and readvertise
for bids early in December.

At various times during the year three different plans for
the new chapel building were considered by the committee. The
bids for the most satisfactory plans were considerably beyond
$100,000, the sum available for the building; and the other
plans proposed either affected so much the convenience of the
building, or so cut down the seating accommodations that, in
view* of the judgment of the Trustees, it seemed impossible to
proceed.

The President may perhaps express his personal judg-
ment that the experience with the bids, both on the chapel and
on the library building, indicate that it is highly improbable
that, with anything like the present cost of materials, it will be
possible to erect, within an expense of $100,000, a chapel build-
ing at all satisfactory architecturally, that shall seat at the same
time as many as two thousand persons. It is his growing con-
viction that, in the end, it will probably be more satisfactory to
erect a separate inexpensive concert hall and not attempt to
seat so many in the chapel building.

There seems grave danger of not getting quite what is
wanted for either purpose in the attempt to combine the two
ideas of concert hall and chapel. And a building that would
accommodate somewhat more than two thousand — the largest

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number we could possibly hope to provide for in the chapel
building — seems in itself desirable for the musical interests.
Such a building is called for not only by our holiday and com-
mencement concerts, but by the May festival concerts, by all
orchestra concerts and by a number of others in the Artist Re-
citals course. We are now in the rather curious position of en-
deavoring to develop in the community and vicinity a musical
constituency, most of whom, for lack of room, we aire obliged
to shut out from much of the best music. An inxepensive con-
cert hall, built in an inconspicuous place, would meet this
need and enable us to do a musical service for the people of the
vicinity not now possible.

The President is strongly convinced also that, for the best
results from the chapel exercises, the audience cannot well go
regularly beyond about sixteen hundred. It is a question of the
effectiveness of the services, not simply a question of the num-
ber who can barely be brought within hearing of the speaker or
leader. If a limit is not to be set to the number of students to
be received, the student body in any case at the present rate of
increase will soon outgrow any chapel building we could erect.
We must look, then, before long, to some division of the stu-
dent body ; and for the sake of the Academy itself, the provision
for a separate Academy chapel exercise would often be advan-
tageous ; it would make possible the presentation of many mat-
ters needed by students of Academy rank, that must now be
largely neglected.

If this separation of the concert feature, and this limitation
of numbers could be agreed on, it seems as if it might be pos-
sible to go forward promptly .to a satisfactory solution of the
chapel problem.

It might also be noted in this connection that the officers of
the First Church have expressed to the College their official de-
sire that the First Church be not used, after the present year,

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for chapel purposes. It seems very important, therefore, that
some prompt action should be taken to provide for the chapel
exercises.

On April 5, in accordance with the recommendation from
the Faculty, it was voted to approve the installation during the
summer of a system of electric gongs in all the recitation
buildings, to be operated from a central clock, the expense
being estimated at $200. It may be added that the installation
of the gongs shows that they have distinctly contributed to the
prompt carrying out of the schedule of classes.

On June 15, on account of the increased cost of living
and because the boarding halls at present prices were not really
meeting the charges legitimately to be referred to them, the
committee voted to make the following increases in the prices
to be charged at the various halls :

Baldwin Cottage — increase in room rent twenty-five cents per
week; increase In board twenty-five cents per week (former price of
board, $3.00) ; Talcott Hall — increase In room rent fifteen cents per
week; increase in lx)ard ten cents per week (former price of board,
$2.75) ; Lord Cottage — increase in room rent fifteen cents per week ;
increase In board twenty cents per week (former price of board,
$2.40) ; Stewart Hall — increase In ix)ard ten cents per week (former
price of board, $2.25).

On August 4, it was voted to authorize the expenditure
by the Secretary of the sum of $1000, during the year 1906-07,
to make a beginning upon the general catalogue of all former
students, this amount to be charged to the expense account
of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of 1908. A beginning has
thus been made upon this very important work, already inform-
ally approved by the Trustees. The President believes that
such a general catalogue of all former students, though its
preparation must be a very large task, will nevertheless richly
repay the College in many ways, and it seems especially ap-

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propriate that it should be planned that the catalc^^e should
appear in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary.

Three interesting votes by the committee, October 18,
may well find place here, though strictly falling outside the
year covered by this report:

The vote to remodel the Squire House for the use of the
Geological I>epartment, and to furnish three additional recita-
tion rooms for college classes; the vote to allow $250 from
the College Budget toward the expense of the running of Coun-
cil Hall, on account of the large use of that building now made
for general college purposes; the vote to provide toilet fa-
cilities at Talcott Hall, Baldwin Cottage, and Lord Cottage,
for the convenience of the men who take their meals at those
dormitories.

The extensive use of Council Hall for general college pur-
poses and the conversion of the Squire House into a recita-
tion and laboratory building are compelled by the pressure of
additional numbers and classes. The College is at present
using apparently every available resource to meet the demand
for recitation rooms. Even the use of Sturges Hall, of the
Academy buildings, of Council Hall, and of the remodeled
Squire House will barely meet immediate needs. The uses
of Council Hall for general college purposes are indicated in
the following statement from Professor Bosworth:

First, four college classes now meet regularly in Council Hall,
with an aggregate attendance of 446 each week. Second, Council Hall
is used for after-chapel meetings, particularly meetings of entire
classes. Many weeks probably an aggregate of from 500 to 1000 stu-
dents attend these meetings. Third, Council Hall is used for many
special meetings of college students, e.g., Bible classes, mission study
classes, student volunteers, foot ball coach and team, committee meet-
ings of college student organizations, etc.. etc. Fourth, the College
rents a room in Council Hall as an office for the Secretary of the
Young Men's Christian Association. This makes the building head-

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quarters for the Young Men*s Christian Association and brings large
numbers of students into the building each week.

In view of this large use of the Hall it seemed only ap-
propriate that the expense of its maintenance should be partly
borne by the College Department.

The remodeling of the Squire House will give very good
accommodations to the Geological Department, and with this
change each one of the sciences of Chemistry, Zoology, Botany,
and Geology will have a separate building.

II. DONORS

The Nczv Half Million Fund

The great achievement of the year, on the financial side,
has been, of course, the completion of the new Half Million
Fund. The completion of such a fund for endowment and
equipment, within four years and a half after finishing the pre-
vious Half Million Endowment Fund, is certainly cause few-
congratulation on the part of all the alumni and friends of
Oberlin College. This achievement was begtun and really
made possible by the conditional offer from the anonymous
Boston donor of $100,000. And the College is greatly indebted
to this friend for the greatest consideration in extending the time
for the completion of the Fund, and for his interest in the
work of the College, shown in many ways. It would hardly be
possible for any donor to show a more considerate helpfulness.

The Half Million Fund, as completed June 30, 1906, con-
tained a total of $501,608. This was divided under the fol-
lowing funds: $125,000 for a new library building given by
Mr. Andrew Carnegie ; $100,000 for library endowment ; $100,-
000 from the anonymous donor in Boston for the increase of
salaries of teachers in the College and Seminary ; $25,000 for
an art building and its endowment, including, besides the orig-

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inal Olney $10,000 endowment, $10,000 frcwn Miss Kora F.
Barnes of New York, and $5,000 from an anonymous New York
donor; $5,000 from Miss Grace Sherwood of Chicago for the
Barrows Memorial Building for Men ; and $146,608 for mis-
cellaneous purposes.

The gift of the Boston donor has enabled the Trustees,
as already noted, to increase by $200 the salaries of twenty-
four full professors. The amount of the $146,608 is devotee
to the following objects: $85,000 given by Miss Anne Wal-
worth for the endowment of the Slavic Department; $15,000
pledged by Mr. Frederick N. Finney as an addition to the Fin-
ney Memorial Chapel fund; $21,558 for equipment and endow-
ment in various departments ; and $25,000 for new scholarships
and loan funds. Of this $10,000 is in scholarships for self-sup-
porting women, and $10,000 is in the Gilchrist Banking Fund,
the income of which may be used as temporary loans to stu-
dents. This fund was a bequest from Mrs. Ella Gilchrist Pot-
ter of Alpena, Mich. Miss Walworth's most generous gift of
$85,000 for the Slavic Department comes most opportunely to
assist a very needy and most important work.

The largest single gift toward the library endowment was
the bequest of Dr. C. N. Lyman of Wadsworth. This amount-
ed to $34,000. The remaining $66,000 was given by fifty-
five donors in sums ranging from $10,000 to $25.

The full list of subscribers to the Library Endowment
Fund follows:

Donors to the Carnegie Library Endotcment Fund

D. P. Allen $ 1,000

Anonymous 100

Anonymous 1,000

J. H. Bellows 200

Mrs. Frederick Billings 200

William A. Brown 100

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Dan H. Bradley $ 50

C. E. Briggs 500

Dwight R. Burrell 500

Theodore E. Burton 550

Mrs. F. E. Case 100

Mrs. Mary T. Castle 100

Mrs. Elizabeth Keep Clark 500

Mrs. H. G. Coburn 500

Bequest of Mrs. H. G. Coburn 10,000

Charles F. Cox 1,000

J. D. Cox 1,000

J. G. W. Cowles 500

Zenas Crane JOO

Frank A. Day 100

W. H. Day 100

Miss Grace Dodge 1,000

Frederick N. Finney 2,000

H. Clark Ford 500

William N. Gates 500

G. M. B. Grigsby 1,000

Alexander Hadden 50

Charles M. Hall 0,000

Thomas A. Hall 2,500

George B. Harris 200

D. Willis James 10,000

J. G. Jennings 25

Albert M. Johnson 100

H. H. Johnson 1,000

Mrs. Abbie R. Kendall 475

Herbert D. Laflferty 1,000

Estate of Dr. Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio 34,000

Matured Annuities:

Davis Fund $550

Whipple Fund 158

Perry Fund 340

Ryder Ii\ind 48

1,096

IiTing W. Metcalf 1.000

C. S. Mills 25

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Mrs. E. B. Monroe $ 50

L. H. Severance 5,000

E. A. & C. B. Shedd 5,000

F. R. Simmons 50

S. C. Smith 500

Merrltt Starr 100

Williams H. TIbballs 500

F. H. Tracy 100

F. K. Tracy 25

J. O. Troup 500

Mrs. Lawson Valentine 500

L. C. Warner 1,000

E. A. West 2,000

G. H. Whitcomb 500

L. H. Severance, D. P. Allen, H. H. Johnson (Additional) 504

$100,000

In addition, during the four years and a half since the
Boston donor's conditional offer, there have been received a
number of other gifts which have not been included in the
Half Million Fund. Among these are the Olney Art Collec-
tion which has a value of about $200,000 ; the gift of Mr. An-
drew Carnegie to relieve the students who suffered through the
failure of the Citizens National Bank; $29,700 in annuities;
and $7,537 in small amounts for the assistance of the Slavic
Department and the aid of students in the Seminary. $1,065
was given for the care of the trees on the College Campus, and
other gifts to the amount of $9,445 have also been received,
making a total of funds not included in the Half Million Fund
or in the Olney Collection of $62,747.

The completion of this special Fund does not, of course,
mean that there will be any cessation in the financial work of
the College. There are many other needs quite as pressing
as those that have been now met, and gratified as we must all
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success of the past a fresh argument for pressing forward with
courage to the meeting of the large needs that remain.

It will be remembered, of course, that the gifts mentioned
above do not belong simply to this year, but cover, as indicated,
a period of four years and a half, though the gift of Miss Wal-
worth for the Slavic Department, and almost the entire amount
of the library endowment, do belong to the record of the year
just closed. The President desires, in addition to the personal
letter of thanks sent to each donor, to express once again in this
annual report, on behalf of the College, his deep sense of g^'ati-
tude for these generous gifts, that have helped the College to
meet various pressing needs, and especially have made possible
noteworthy increases in salaries of professors, a new library
building, great growth for the library, which effects every col-
lege interest, and the endowment of the Slavic Department.

Of the miscellaneous gifts counting toward the Half Mil-
lion Fund, nearly all belong to previous years. So far as they
are to be credited to the present year, they appear itemized in the
Treasurer's report.

Gifts Reported by the Treasurer

Attention is called especially to the two headings in the
Treasurer's report : gifts for immediate use, and gifts to form
new funds or increase old ones. The gifts for immediate use,
amount, as will be seen, altogether to $6,192.63— almost exactly
the same as last year. The gifts to form new funds or in-
crease old ones, however, on account of the completion of the
special Half Million Fund, are very greatly in excess of the
amount reported last year, and reach a total of $316,223.68.
Mr Carnegie's gift of $125,000, for the new library building,
of course does not appear in the Treasurer's report, as that
money is paid out from time to time as need requires in the
process of the building, and there are as well other payments

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on the Half Million Fund still to be made. It will be noticed
that the gifts for immediate use include several considerable
sums for improvements in the women's gymnasium and for the
women's recreation field, for the Slavic Department, and for the
Employment Fund for Seminary students, as well as a good
sum from members of the Living Endowment Union. The
hearty thanks of the College are due all these friends for the
gifts thus recorded.

Other Gifts

The Librarian's report contains a detailed account of an
unusually large number of special and interesting gifts from a
long list of friends of the College, the number of additions by
gift again exceeding the number by purchase. The President
joins with the Librarian in expressing his warm gratitude to
these numerous donors for their contributions to the Library.
It is hard to select, out of so many gifts of value, any for special
mention; but attention may be called to the gift of $500 from
Mr. Charles M. Hall to purchase a complete set of Crelle's
Journal of Mathematics; the special gift of $200 from Mr.
Thomas A. Hall for the Department of History; and the gift
from Mr. Charles Finney Cox of the very valuable copy of the
Latin Bible, published by Anthony Koburger in the year 1478.
Some valuable contributions to the Geological Museum have
been made by Dr. Branson, as there have been some noteworthy
further finds, during this last summer, of the fossil fishes, for
which this region has become noteworthy all over the world.

The parting gift of the class of ipo6 was presented on the
morning of their graduation day, June 20, at nine o'clock, and
received by the President on behalf of the Trustees and Faculty.
The gift consisted of a handsome sun-dial, placed in the midst
of tlie oixMi lawn between Peters Hall, Warner Hall, and War-
ner Gymnasium. The standard for the dial was designed by a

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member of the class. This adds another to the many interest-
ing gifts made to the College by outgoing classes, and the
President wishes here gratefully to acknowledge this gift of
the class of 1906.

III. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS

No changes have occurred during the year in the adminis-
trative forces. The work of administration has gone steadily
and successfully forward, and with the present careful organ-
ization, the years certainly ought to register clear progress.

The President believes that the time has come when the
one further natural step in the development of the administra-
tion of the College, referred to in last year's report, may wisely
be taken. He is ready, therefore, to recommend, through
the Council to the Trustees, the appointment of a Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. The President believes that such
an appointment would be a real gain to the work of the entire
institution. The Department of Arts and Sciences is at present
the only department of the institution without its own recog-
nized head. As the central department of the College, it must, of
course, always have much attention from the President ; but it
deserves and needs more special study of its particular problems
than the President is able to give it. The President has not in-
tended to neglect his duties as Dean of the College. A number
of definite steps in the development of the department, looking
well into the future, are already clear to him and will be outlined
at a later point in this report. But the prevailing practice in
other institutions, as well as the clear gains that have been made
in other departments in our own College, through the appoint-
ment of recognized heads, indicate the wisdom of completing
our organization by the definite appointment of a Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. There is the further consideration
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to cut down his work at some point ; and this appointment, while
not entailing large additional expense, would give real relief,
at the same time that it would add distinct strength to the ad-
ministration. It may be added that it is perhaps only fair, too,
that the department which has the largest surplus in its budget,
should have the advantage of the study and growth which
should come from this appointment.

Reports

The plan lying back of the work of the Assistant to the
President was so fully explained in the report of last year that
little further needs to be said about it at this time. The Presi-
dent contents himself, therefore, with simply incorporating a
considerable part of the report of the Assistant to the President
at this point, adding that it is only fair to emphasize the state-
ment of the report, that the greatest value of the work will,
in the long run, be underneath the surface :

The activities of the year just closed are almost entirely grouped
about the new Half Millioh Fund.

In the obtaining of this result it was, of course, inevitable that
effort was considerably withdrawn from some of the more general
features of the Assistant's work. The Alumni meetings were attended
In Pittsburg, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Lincoln, Nebraska,
new Associations being formed at the last two for Southern Califor-
nia and for the state of Nebraska, respectively.

Toward stimulation of Alumni Association life the careful study
0/ the problems involved Is beginning, I think, to show results. The
"Idea Exchange" mentioned In last year's report as contemplated — ^by
which the most successful results of the experience of individual Asso-
ciations Is put into the hands of all the organizations, — has been gen-
erally appreciated and has proved a real help. It seems not at all too
much to say that the various almunl groups have never before been
so interested and active as now.

The Living Endowment canvass has been carried on by securing
contributions from the graduating and the reunion classes of '96, *86
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subscriptions. The pledges payable July 1st, 1906, were $2,205; for
July 1st, 1907, $2,721 ; a gain of $516, and of 198 members.

A very important step in connection with the Living Endow-
ment Fund was the making, in June, of an agreement by which
members of the Living Endowment Union, contributing $1.75
or more yearly without designation of expenditure, are sent the
Alumni Magazine free. The arrangement is based on the payment of
a club rate by the Association and diminishes the net income tem-
porarily, but it is believed that it will not fall to prove a very im-
portant movement toward bringing the Alumni and Alma Mater closer
together. And Just as it has made Living Endowment membership
more valuable, both to members and to college, so the short ex-
perience thus far permitted shows that the plan has made such
membership immensely more attractive. With the help of this
agreement — which, though in contract form for one year only, will no
doubt be continued indefinitely — and by the following of the plan of
canvass found successful last June, the outlook would seem good for
an annual gross increase of $500 in Living Endowment subscriptions
for several years to come.

In general it seems certain that, owing to the efficiency of all
agencies now at work — such as the Bureau of Appointments, the
Alumni Magazine, the Annual Reports, the Supervision of Appeals,
the active Associations, the Living Endowment Union, — ^the alumni
have never l)efore been in such close touch with the institution as
now. One of the signs of this has been the unusual interest exhib-
ited this year in the election of the alumni trustees.

The work of coming Into closer relation with the old friends and
the widening of the circle of the Ck>llege's new friends has, like alumni
matters, been subordinated to the Half Million Fund movement,
though there have been some really valuable gains here.

In the matter of the direct financial returns of the second
year of the assistantship, there is to be reported the following list
of items:

For Library endowment $20,725.00 (All paid in, or In

Annuity Fund 1,050.00 5% notes.)

For the Y. M. C. A. project. . . . 10,000.00 ($5,000 paid in.)
Women*s Gymnasium Field... 100.00

$31,875.00

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For current expense $ 516.00 (Increase In Living:

Seminary Employment Fund. . 200.00 Endowment li\ind* )

General Expense 25.00

Scholarship Loans 125.00

$ 850.00

This makes a total of $32,725 in direct returns for the year —
for increase of the permanent endowment of $21,875, of the equipment
$10,000, and of the Temporary Endowment, counting the Living En-
dowment Fund, scholarships, and other current expense gains, $17,-
000, making a total of $25 less than $49,000. As against last year, the
amount of money actually received or pledged is $32,725. against
$13,300, and the totals for the two years can he expressed as fol-
lows:

Increase in Permanent Endowment $22,950.00

Increase in Equipment 20,150.00

Increase in Long Endowment through Living En-
dowment Fund 34,000.00

Increase in Temi)orary Endowment (during As-
sistant's incumbency) 21,000.00

$98,100.00

Of course, there are other direct gains in which the assist-
antship has been an influence, though not the decisive one. No
doubt the greatest value of the work will, in the long run, be under-
neath the surface. It seems quite certain, for Instance, that the ac-
tivities of the year were influential in the establishment of some be-
quests of considerable value.

The two years* work has given an opportunity of gaining ac-
quaintance with the whole field, and further work will be done with
the advantage of this experience. One of the results of this exper-
ience is a great gratitude for the splendid co-operation of the trus-
tees, whose loyalty in the final canvass for the Half Million Fund was
a thing of Joy and an inspiration. I should like also to emphasize
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my thanks to those who will find it possible In the year to come to
give the helpfulness of their continued personal suggestions and di-
rection.

The work for the year to come will have as its purpose :

1. To secure a Men's Building;

2. To secure a home for the Olney Collection ;

3. To secure partial or complete technical equipment;

4. To make an attempt, with the co-operation of the college
Secretary, the Principal of the Academy, and the Secretary of the
Bureau of Appointments, to increase the interest and the feeling of
responsibility in Oberlin on the part of all Ohioans, and especially the
residents of the towns and cities in the northern part of the state.
Those institutions that are now growing fastest, it will be found, are
those that have developed a strong feeling of state and city responsi-
bility ; and it ought to be the purpose of Oberlin to arouse, if possible
such a feeling in at least the northern part of Ohio. Such a plan
would, I believe, best begin in an active canvass for Academy and
Ck)llege students among the high schools, so that I should like to
recommend the sending out of an Academy canvasser who would not
only be able to help the Academy, by the securing of students, but
would be able to increase Oberlin's prestige in such a way as to make
financial work more fruitful. With his activities, there could wisely
be co-operation on the part of the Bureau of Appointments and of a
more informal bureau of lectures, and, of course, of the President's
Assistant An active man in the field, enjoying such co-operation,
ought to make possible valuable results along all lines within five
years.

The report speaks for itself. The year of further exper-
ience with this office has certainly not lessened the President's
confidence in the wisdom of the creation of the office and of the
appointment of Mr. Williams to it. The President recognizes
with special pleasure the large help and the great relief brought
to him personally through the appointment.

The Treasurer's report shows an increase of about $330,000
over the preceding report in the entire amount of funds cared
for, this amount for the first time making a total of over $2,000,-
000. There is a corresponding increase in the Endowment

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Fund over last year of about $190,000, the Endowment Fund
for the first time considerably exceeding a million and a half
of dollars. Both these sums, it should be noticed, will be consid-
erably increased when all the present subscriptions are paid in.
The summary of the assets of the College, including a conser-
vative estimate of buildings and equipment, now exceeds, it will
be noticed, two and three-quarter millions, and when the pres-
ent subscriptions are all in will be well toward three millions.
The general expenses charged under the head, University, are
slightly less than last year.

The Treasurer and the Investment Committee have been
so successful in their work that it has been possible again to
divide the net income of the general investments at the rate of
4.8 per cent, among the different funds to which these invest-
ments belong; and at the same time, it is gratifying to see, to
charge off the advances to the gymnasium and to the English
course, ainounting to about $1500, and to reduce the ac-
cumulated deficit by nearly $6,000, leaving the total unpaid de-
ficit at $5,162.03 on August 31, 1906.

The term bills in the College Department show an in-
crease of over $1,000, as compared with last year's report. The
income from term bills in the Academy is almost exactly the
same. In the Conservatory there is an increase of about $4,800.
On the whole, the showing is most encouraging. It is especially
satisfactory that the report is able to show for the year a surplus
of $5,799.86. instead of a deficit of any amount.

The Secretary's report is once more a very suggestive and
illuminating document, covering very fully the wide range of
interests committed to that office. Reference will need to be
made to various points in this report in the discussion of later
topics. I may add here a few words upon the general topics
with which the Secretary introduces the main body of his report.

Emphasis should be given to the Secretary's insistence

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upon the need of a new administration building. With the
possible exception of the Treasurer, all the officers in the build-
ing are distinctly hampered for lack of room. Better work
could be done, with less danger to health and with much less
strain, if this need were met. It is difficult in the winter to
get equable conditions, and it is almost impossible during many
days of summer, in the upi>er rooms of the present building, to
work with any approach to comfort. We cannot shut our eyes,
either, to the perhaps even more important fact, that, especially
in the Secretary's office, a great deal of material that has cost a
large expenditure, both of time and money, is in great danger of
loss by fire in the present building. The President believes that
an administration building belongs distinctly in a list of our
three most needed buildings.

The largest piece of new work undertaken this year in the
Secretary's office is the preparation of a general catalogue of all
former students, to which the Secretary makes detailed refer-
ence.

It IS certainly to be hoped that, in spite of the pressing
nature of other work, the two items of deferred work to which
the Secretary refers — the systematic filing of many old docu-
ments of historical value now stored in the Secretary's vaults,
and the completion of the index of the first volume of trustee
records — may be finished in time for use at the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary. The new card catalogue now being prepared in
the Secretary's office cannot fail to be very helpful.

It seems possible the coming year, though the Secretary to
the President, who is also in charge of the Bureau of Appoint-
ments, to jnake at least a tentative beginning of the work of
Academy Canvasser, of which the Secretary speaks. The
effectiveness of the Bureau of Appointments itself could be so
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the Assistant to the President. Real gain, I have no doubt,
would be registered in bringing more closely together thus in
the outside work the efforts of the Secretary's office, of the
Assistant to the President, of the Principal of the Academy,
and of the Bureau of Appointments. The President believes
that his Secretary is thoroughly competent to undertake this
work, and he thinks that he might release him to such an extent
that he could give some time each week to this outside work.
The statistics submitted by the Secretary make it plain why
he feels impelled to urge that "the most important question
which is at present before the friends of Oberlin is the question
of how to make Oberlin attractive for men." It is not that there
are not more men in the College than hitherto. In the College
I>epartment there has been a gratifying increase iri the abso-
lute number of men — in the last five years, an increase of 35%
in the total number of men enrolled ; but, as the Secretary indi-
cates, there has been a steady decrease at the same time in the
relative number of men. It was at first thought that the year
1906-07 was going to show a gain in the proportion of the men,
but the final figures for the first semester and the Fall term indi-
cate rather a less in the percentage. The President's belief is
that, unless the proportion of women is arbitrarily limited, the
only way in which the relative number of men can be decidedly
increased is by undertaking the full work of a technical school,
though gains, no doubt, could be made through the introduction
of shopwork of the first two years of the technical course, and
through the presence of an attractive men's building. Both
these things, in any case, are in themselves greatly to be desired,
and it will be noted from the report of the Assistant to the Pres-
ident that they are clearly in the mind, both of the President
and of his Assistant, as ends to be gained, if in any way possi-
ble, during the present year. The introduction of a fully or-

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ganized technical school would, of course, introduce questions
of grave importance, and it needs hardly to be said that such
a school is not to be thought of without the gift of a very large
sum of money for its special enowment.

It cannot escape the notice of any thoughtful reader of the
Secretary's report that a very large service is being rendered by
that office in its oversight of the various publications issued by
the College. The expense for printing is, of course, much
larger than it was formerly, but I think there can be no
doubt that the present careful and discriminating, even if some-
what free, use of printed material is making its full contribu-
tion to the progress of the Qjllege. A special piece of work be-
longing to this year was the printing of the souvenir prog^m
for the American Missionary Association. This program was
mailed, it will be noticed, to all the more important Congrega-
tional ministers in the country.

The wide range from which our students come is clearly
indicated by the long list of schools and colleges given in the
Secretary's report.

May I call attention also to the fact that the fitting schools
seem to be appreciating the reports sent them of the first semes-
ter's work of the students whom they have sent to us. The
making of this report has been of value, both to the College
and to the schools, and is particularly gratifying to the schools
and to the parents as evidence that we are not forgetting the in-
dividual in our plans.

It is also a pleasure to see that fewer students, who might
ideally be expected to go on with their work, are being lost to
the College than hitherto. A certain amount of such loss must,
of course, be expected, and holds always for all institutions ; and
yet it would seem as if this were a point where still greater
gains might be made. It seems unfortunate that we should
lose for the later years of their course students who have once

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been interested enough to come to us. Attention will be fur-
ther called to this matter at a later point in the report.

The Secretary also presents, in accordance with the re-
• quest of the Trustees, a very careful report — the fullest, I think,
in the history of the College, — of scholarship funds and bene-
ficiary aid. !• believe that we are accomplishing really extra-
ordinary results in the use of these funds, considering the com-
paratively small amount of money available for these purposes.
As compared with many other colleges, the average amount
granted to each student in the way of aid for the year is very
small, and I second most heartily the plea of the Secretary for
much larger funds for this purpose. We are very glad also to
have the loan funds for students increased, for there can be no
doubt that this is one of the most desirable ways of helping,
without injury, self-supporting students.

The general statistics show gains at every point. The
complete list of officers and teachers has gone up this year, as
compared with last year, from 110 to 124. The number of de-
grees conferred, not including the seventy-one special degrees
of the Conservatory of Music elsewhere mentioned, was 171, as
compared with 15G last year, and registers the largest number
in the history of the College. The entire enrolment in the in-
stitution also shows a similar increase from 1715 to 1771, and
in the College Department from 670 to 714. It may be added
that the present attendance of the College indicates a still larger
gain this year over last, and seems to show that the entire en-
rolment of the College will probably nearly reach 1900 the
present year, and the enrolment in the College proper more
than 800. The present enrolment also shows, for the first time
in the history of the College, more than three hundred men in
the College Department. The gain in the College Department
has been seventy-five per cent, in six years, a notable showing.
Attention has already been called to the large number of

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gifts made to the College library during the past year. The
Librarian's report shows that over 5000 bound volumes have
been added to the library during the year just passed, and that
the number of catalogued bound .volumes in the College library,
not duplicates, is now 72,560. With the 14,203 bound volumes
of the U. L. A. Library, the libraries accessible to our students
now contain over 86,000 bound volumes. To this is to be add-
ed a large amount of valuable material contained in more than
40,000 unbound volumes, also catalogued. The Librarian also
makes clear how great is the need of the new building. We
are using, to the very limit of capacity, every part of the old
building. It will be a great relief to be able to transfer the li-
brary and the library force to the commodious quarters of the
new building for which we are so eagerly looking. All the
friends of the College will be especially interested in the Libra-
rian's careful description of the plans of the new Carnegie
Library.

Hardly second in importance to the new building, as con-
cerns the interests of the library, is the completion of the $100,-
000 for library endowment, and even the full income from this
additional endowment will not meet the real needs of the libra-
ry for growth. It is e:^ceedingly desirable, as indicated in last
year's report, that the library should have for immediate ex-
penditure some considerable sums of money that might enable
it to bring up to date its various departments. We cannot af-
ford to rest satisfied with the endowment already secured, great
as is the gain so made, for the library, it needs to be remem-
bered, touches every single department of study in the College,
and neither teachers nor students can do the work they ought
to do without generous equipment at this point. The friends of
the College are all to be congratulated upon the efficiency of its
library staff.

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the steadily satisfactory work now being done in that depart-
ment. It is very gratifying to see that, in spite of an unusually
large graduating class last year, the enrolment for the Semi-
nary is a little more than maintained the present year. It is
pleasant also to notice that the largest enrolment is to be
found in the Senior class. This attendance, it is to be noted,
is maintained, too, without any extraordinary grants of aid to
the students. Students come to us repeatedly in the face of
larger offers of aid elsewhere. The great financial gain con-
nected with the department for the year is, of course, the en-
dowment of the Slavic work already referred to. The most
gratifying thing, probably, in connection with the Seminary is
the manifest enthusiasm and loyalty of the student body itself
in which the personal influence of the Dean is so large a factor ;
no agency is so effective as this in promoting attendance in a
professional department.

The report of the Dean of College Men shows for the year
1905-06 a total of 297 men. Attention is especially called to
the careful study of the cases of the men who have left Oberlin
after a year or more of residence here. The larger number of
these men are classed as special students and as Freshmen.
Losses in the later years of the college course, one is glad to
see, are not large. At the same time, it seems especially unfor-
tunate that the College should lose men who have once been in-
terested sufficiently to come to the College. In a number of
cases it is, of course, true that the men were looking to techni-
cal courses from the beginning, and came with the distinct in-
tention of staying only one or two years in Oberlin. The loss
in these cases, therefore, was to be anticipated. But I am glad
to direct special attention to that section of the Dean's report
in which he comments upon this loss and upon the ways in
which it may be, in part at least, remedied. May I ask the
friends of the College also to note the Dean's personal testi-

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mony that, during twenty-four years of acquaintance with the
College, he believes that "there has never been a time during
these years when there has been a more wholesome, healthy
spirit, a more serious attention to college work, or higher
ideals among the men, than now prevails." This is in line, I
may add, also with the judgment of the Dean of the Theolog-
ical Seminary and with my own judgment. The President re-
joices especially in the thought of the steadily increasing per-
sonal knowledge on the part of the Dean, of all college men.
In the final analysis, nothing can do so much for the spirit of
the College as such acquaintance as this and its resulting mu-
tual understanding.

For the year just passed, the President has asked each of
the Deans of Women to prepare a full report upon the young
women under her immediate care. For the first time, therefore,
these three separate reports appear. So far as there are matters
of common interest to all the women of the institution, the Dean
of College and Graduate Women, in full consultation with the
other Deans, has been asked to report these matters of com-
mon interest in a separate report. This general report for all
women shows that there has been but slight improvement in
the number of good boarding houses open to the young women.
It also calls attention to one change in the regulations for the
young women, with the reasons for it. It is always difficult to
be sure just what regulations are wise as to the relations of the
men and women, but it is hoped that the change made may work
satisfactorily. This general report gives full information also
concerning a proposed reorganization of the House Govern-
ment Association, and a possible extension of its functions.
The degree of sympathy and co-operation between students and
faculty in these matters is particularly pleasing.

The report of the Dean of College and Graduate Women
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rection of making some real difference between the older col-
lege students and the students in lower classes and in other
departments. This gradual increase in liberty and responsibil-
ity seems to be in harmony with the soundest principles of gov-
ernment.

The report of the Dean of Conservatory Women shows
quite fully how the students' board of Conservatory Women,
in co-operation with a number of the older students of the de-
partment, have been working out more satisfactory results in
that department also. A second important point in this report
is the statement of the way in which the standard of the Con-
servatory is being gradually raised in two definite directions.
Both lines of effort, it can hardly be doubted, are thoroughly
justified. In connection with this large increase in the propor-
tion of students of college rank in the Conservatory, it should
be noted that this inevitably and rightly makes a larger demand
upon the College Department for courses that may be open to
Conservatory students. We can hardly urge the Conservatory
to insist more and more upon having students of college rank,
without making reasonable provision for these students in such
other courses as they wish to elect outside the Conservatory.
The President agrees that it is highly desirable that more work,
especially in College English, should be open to Conservatory
students, and the demand at this point within the College, as
well as from the Conservatory, seems plainly to call for at least
one additional instructor in the Department of English.

It will be seen from the report of the Dean of Academy
Women that two of our best boarding houses are now used as
special Academy houses, and this experiment of giving oppor-
tunity for segregating at least a part of the Academy young
women seems to be working satisfactorily.

One of the most valuable services rendered to the students
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those whom he directly associates with him, in conference with
the students concerning their courses of study. The method
and spirit of this work were quite fully set forth in the report of
last year, and there need only be added at once at this point
Professor Wager's own brief statement of the work done
during the year :

As Advisory Officer, it gives me pleasure to say that during the
past year upwards of a hundred students have consulted me about
the arrangement of their course as a whole, and that a very large
number have asked for assistance in detail. Without coercive meth-
ods, we could hardly expect more, and It seems to me clear that the
idea is making its way with the student body.

The report of the Registrar brings out, more strikingly
even than that of the Secretary or of the Dean of College Men,
the serious losses which occur during the course of a single
class, and emphasizes again the g^eat possible gain that might
be made through simply holding more fully than now the stu-
dents who have once registered with us. The percentage
finally graduating from the College is far too small compared
with the number entering. The intimate knowledge which the
Registrar has of the records of students for many years makes
all the more significant her judgment that the aim on the part
of the college "to secure fine, thorough, scholarly work is be-
ing met by the students with increasingly encouraging re-
sponse." The Committee on Failure in Scholarship is no doubt
helping to secure this result.

It is, of course, manifest that every increase in the number
of students adds directly to the work of the Registrar's office,
and naturally calls for somewhat more assistance. It is highly
desirable that the card catalogue of all existing records in that
office should be promptly finished.

The problem of registering with promptness and accuracy
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work of the Assigning OMcer, Professor William G. Caskey,
has still further reduced in various ways the necessary fatigue
of registration. His report, however, makes it plain that there
are still further gains that can and should be made, especially
in securing a more perfect adjustment of the work of the as-
signing office with that of the various committees upon whose
action the election of students depends. The entire expense of
the assigning office for the year 1905-06 was $173.90, not an
unreasonable expenditure when the considerable amount of
printing and clerk hire is taken into account.

The report of the Director of the Conservatory of Music
properly calls attention to the fact that the Conservatory is
constantly receiving "more calls for young men of character,
talent, and thorough musical education, as* teachers and di-
rectors of music in colleges" than it can possibly fill. The field
is one of such interest and importance that it may well attract
young men. Even with the present high standard of the Con-
servatory of Music, — and it certainly ought not to be lowered,
— the number of graduates from the Conservatory of Music
may reasonably be expected considerably to increase. The re-
port also indicates the large amount of study which is constant-
ly being done in Europe by different members of the Conserva-
tory Faculty. Attention should be directed also to the many
and varied outside activities of the Conservatory Faculty, of
which the director speaks. I have already indicated my agree-
ment with the Director in his sense of the need of a music hall.
The list of artists' recitals and similar concerts show how great
are the opportunities of this kind oj>en to Conservatory stu-
dents.

One of the most satisfactory showings in the report of the
College Secretary, as well as in the report of tlie Director of
the Conservatory, is the increase in the proportion of students

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of colkge rank in the Conservatory, and to the Secretary's fig-
ures may be added the statement of the Director, that the year
upon which we have now entered does show a much larger gain
than has been made in the year just passed. The proportion of
college students this year will reach nearly one-half. It seems
not unreasonable to hope that the time is close at hand when we
may expect to have in the Conservatory of Music a musical de-
partment, all of whose students shall be of college rank. That
would give the Conservatory still further distinction and an
almost, if not quite, unique place among the schools of music in
the country, and it seems probable that that result can be
reached, as the Director indicates, without any violent trans-
ition. This would not prevent reasonable provision for chil-
dren especially talented in music. It would only mean that
such cases would take the larger part of their work in the Acad-
emy and be classified in that department, while still doing some
musical work in the Conservatory, in the same way in which
some special students who are not of college rank are classified
in the Academy, while they are at the same time admitted to
certain courses in the College. The detailed figures from the
Conservatory also show an encouraging gain in regularity of
attendance through the year.

The report of the Principal of the Academy shows the
larger number who are interested in entirely completing the
course of study and receiving the diploma of the Academy.
The Principal calls attention also to the various agencies that
have been at work to promote an enthusiastic Academy spirit.
Considerable gains, I think, it must be recognized, have been
made in this direction. The President has no doubt that
the Principal of the Academy is entirely right in saying that
perhaps the greatest need of the Academy is an increase in
the salaries of at least a number of its teachers. The Trustee
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It seems plain that we can hardly hope to retain for any long
time strong men at the salaries paid to most of these teachers.
The Academy Faculty, with the hearty approval of the Presi-
dent, are recommending, through the Council, this year one im-
portant promotion that ought to do much for the future of the
Academy. Reference has already been made, in the discussion
of the Secretary's report, to a plan for carrying out, in part nt
least, the desire of the Principal of the Academy for an Academy
canvasser. The total enrolment in the Academy this fall, it
will be seen, is almost exactly the same as last fall.

The report of the Chairman of the Summer School, Pro-
fessor S. F. MacLennan, registers, I think, distinct gains in
the development of that part of our work. We ought, of
course, to expect steady improvement, and I believe that the
work of the Summer School was never more satisfactorily
done than in this year. The Summer School tends increasingly
as noted by the Chairman, to become like a regular term of the
college year. The quality of the courses has been exception-
ally high, and the school ought increasingly to attract the
more ambitious from our public school teachers of the vicinity,
as well as college students and alumni. The valuable finds
made by the class in Field Geology — a course offered for the
first time this year — should be noted. Such a course can hardly
be g^ven except in connection with the Summer School, and
yet it is of special importance to the development of the De-
partment of Geology. The President agrees with the Chair-
man of the School in recommending the continuance of the guar-
antee to the School. The guarantee is not a large one, but it
does make possible reasonable development in the School, and a
steadily increasing service on its part along all the lines of the
natural work of the College.

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gratifying to notice, is able to show a still further gain in the
percentage of men using the gymnasium, 90% of the under-
graduates in the College Department making use of its facili-
ties. The past year was the first year in which the Teachers'
Course in Physical Training was open to men ; and the diploma
of that course was granted to four men at the last Commence-
ment. Special attention is called to the Director's discussion
of the significance of the appointment of Mr. C. W. Savage.
The remarkable way in which the men are already responding
to the gymnasium opportunities open to them adds emphasis to
the Director's statement of the further needs of the Depart-
ment.

In connection with the report of the Director of the Men's
Gymnasium, attention should be called to the report of the new-
ly appointed Director of Athletics, which appears for the first
time in our Hst of reports. Mr. Savage has, of course, no re-
port to make upon last year, as he is just beginning his work.
His report, however, emphasizes, it will be noted, the plea al-
ready made by the Director of the Gymnasium for the comple-
tion of the gymnasium building and for the purchase of play-
grounds. It seems necessary to do something more in this di-
rection soon, if the purpose of the appointment of the Director
of Athletics is to be carried out ; for, as Mr. Savage says, "our
aim must be to achieve the general well-being of the greatest
number rather than the highest specialization of the feww" The
number of men participating regularly in out-of-door sports
ought certainly to be increased if the aims of the Department
of Physical Training are to be met.

In the report of the Director of the Women's Gymnasium,
the most noteworthy item, of course, is the statement of the
remodeling and enlarging of the skating floor that it might
serve as a gymnasium. This adds very greatly to the floor
space available for the women. There was, fortunately, a credit

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balance of the old Normal Course in Physical Training which
could be put at once into further apparatus. We are very for-
tunate in securing such an extensive enlargement of gymnasium
opportunities for women at so small a comparative cost. The
number of women participating in out-door sports, as shown by
the report is encouragingly large and emphasizes still further
the need of the recreation field, which it is hoped may soon
be secured. It is pleasant to feel that the gains made in this
[department during the last year do enable the G>llege pretty
fairly to meet the physical needs of the women.

The report of the Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds gives detailed information concerning the changes al-
ready mentioned in the Women's Gymnasium, in the provision
of fire-escapes, and in the remodeling of the Squire House for
the use of the Geological Department.

The Work of the President

The statement of the President's Work might properly
enough begin with the opening sentences of last year's report,
for it has continued during the year just past on essentially the
same lines as hitherto. It has necessarily involved teaching in
the two departments of Philosophy and Theology, organization
and administration, much outside representation, primary re-
sponsibility in shaping the aims and ideals of the College, finan-
cial work, and some writing for publication. To this should
be added the teaching, with Professor Bosworth, of the required
course for the College Seniors, and, for the year just opening,
the required course with the Freshman men. In the Philosoph-
ical course carried on in the College the President has had the
continued co-operation of Dr. Fitch, and in the course of The-
ology in the Seminary, help, in much routine work, from his
Secretary. The Secretary to the President has given indis-

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pensabk assistance as well at many other points, carrying
efficiently a wide variety of work, in relief of the President.

The President fears that the time has come when he must
have some relief, even beyond that afforded by the already
generous staff of assistants. The appointment of a Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences would bring some relief, but
whether that would more than offset the extra work entailed by
the course given to the Freshman men, and the partial loss of his
Secretary in the proposed outside work of Academy canvas-
ser, is rather doubtful. The continuance of the same office
staff during the last year has, of course, been distinctly helpful,
and the work of administration in all directions is made easier
by the more complete and careful organization. At the same
time, this completer organization must always mean that more
things are being done and more interests looked after, or, if the
number of interests has not increased, more is attempted
for them.

An earnest effort has been made to cut down the amount
of work of outside representation for the College ; but, though
for the most part only invitations of the first importance, or
such as, for peculiar reasons, could not well be refused, have
been taken on, the aggregate of work of this kind is, perhaps,
even more than in either of the two preceding years. Much of
this kind of work must be done ; how much can be refused it is
exceedingly difficult to determine. This outside work, com-
bined with the pressure of the regular routine duties, has made
it impossible for the President to visit individual classes, and
study as thoroughly the home needs, as he had hoped this year
to do. It looks as if he would be obliged to give up a part of
his teaching. In the face of this entire situation, it may seem
paradoxical enough that the President should still have at-
tempted to take on, with Professor Bosworth, the two-hour
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class. This was done simply because the President felt that he
could not do for the College Department what he ought without
some opportunity to meet the college men early in their course :
and the class offers peculiar advantages to this end.

As last year, the outside work of the President, up to the
beginning of the present college year, has been divided among
Alumni gatherings, universities and colleges, high schools, ed-
ucational meetings, and important church gatherings, and has
involved besides numerous addresses, lectures, and sermons.

The President has attended alumni gatherings at New
York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Omaha and Lin-
coln, Nebraska; besides presenting the regular review of the
year at the general alumni meeting at Commencement. The
most important of these outside engagements were perhaps two
courses of lectures during the first term of the summer quarter
of the University of Chicago on Theological Reconstruction
and the Psychology of Conduct; four lectures on The Lcm/s of
Friendship — Human and Divine in the series of Haverford
College Library Lectures ; three sermons as university preacher
at the University of Chicago; sermons and addresses before
five other universities or colleges ; addresses before the educa-
tional conference in connection with the installation of President
James of the University of Illinois ; before the Ohio College As-
sociation ; before the Music Teachers' National Association ; and
sermons in New York, Brooklyn, Exeter (New Hampshire),
Montreal (Canada), Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Chicago,
Grand Rapids, and Lawrence (Kansas), addresses before nine
high schools; addresses before the Congregational Clubs of
Milwaukee, Central Illinois, Mansfield and vicinity, and Mon-
treal (Canada) ; addresses before the Inter-church Conference
on Federation; four address on the Sermon on the Mount, be-
fore the Men's Club of the Euclid Avenue Congregational
Church of Cleveland ; and addresses before the men's clubs of

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four other churches ; four addresses before the Minnesota State
Y. M. C. A. Convention ; an address at the Nashville Student
Volunteer Convention ; the annual address as President of the
Congregational Home Missionary Society at Chicago; five ad-
dresses before the Ohio Christian Missionary Society, the state
organization of the Disciples of Christ ; six addresses on Mark,
at the Congregational Summer Assembly at Frankfort (Michi-
gan) ; two addresses before the Reformed Church Assembly of
Pennsylvania.

The main publication for the year by the President is the
volume entitled, Letters to Sunday School Teachers, On the
Great Truths of Our Cliristian Faith, This book is a re-publi-
cation of the series of letters appearing, at the request of the
editor of the Pilgrim Teacher, during the last calendar year in
that magazine. The probability is that the sub-title of the book
should have been made the main title; for though Sunday
School teachers were especially in mind in the writing, the book
has nothing to say concerning Sunday School methods, but is
directed wholly to the attempt to state as simply and directly as
possible the great fundamental truths. While intending to be
thus simple and direct, the letters deal with those lines of
thought that have seemed to the writer to be of prime import-
ance in the consideration of these great truths. A second edi-
tion is likely to be issued under some such title as The Great-
ness and Simplicity of the Faith. Work has also been con-
tinued during the year in the department in the Congregational-
ist called the Professor's Chair, This department has given an
opportunity for theological teaching not unlike that offered by
the work of university extension, and has brought many pleas-
ant relations. The Haverford College Library lectures, g^ven
during the year, by the terms of the lectureship, are required
to be published. That manuscript has been partly prepared for
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»
of other work. A few other articles have been published during
the year, but it has seemed possible to do but a comparatively
small share of the amount of work of this kind that is requested.
The President has felt justified, however, let it be once more
said, in giving a certain amount of time to this Hterary work,
in the belief not merely that it was almost necessary to pre-
vent his own intellectual deterioration, but also because a cer-
tain amount of such work seemed important for the sake of the
College.

On account of the efficient work of the Assistant to the
President, no large amount of time has been devoted to direct
financial work during the past year, though the President has
shared in the endeavors to complete the Half Million Fund, and
has had the pleasure of receiving the knowledge of large and
important proposed bequests.

That part of the President's work, which has to do with
stimulating and directing college sentiment and ideals, grows
rather than lessens as the years go on ; for it may well be be-
lieved, the highest responsibility of the President is to be found
just here. To this part of his work belong the regular Sunday
Bible Class, the opening address of the year, numerous chapel
addresses during the year, the entire work with the Senior
class and with the men of the Freshman class, and much else.
And back of all these more public and formal methods there
must, of course, always lie the subtler and deeper methods of
personal influence and personal conference, in which the Presi-
dent simply shares in the very valuable contribution continually
made by the Faculty to the students, and by the students to one
another. It was a spvecial pleasure to the President to find op-
portunity, during the year just passed, to meet at luncheon in
groups of two or three all the men of the last Senior class. It
is to be hoped that the President's house has continued to be
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large New Year's reception to both college and community, the
annual luncheon to the Faculty — this year given in two parts,
at one time to all the women and wives of the Faculty, and the
other to the men of the Faculty, with the Trustees — the. special
reception for the Senior class of the Theological Seminary and
of the College, a special luncheon to the young women of the
Senior class, besides various gatherings in honor of distin-
guished guests from abroad; these may be taken as illustra-
tions of the way in which it is hoped that the President's house
may increasingly serve the College.

IV. FACULTY

Resignations

The resignations of the following persons were presented
and accepted, with a single exception, at the end of the college
year:

College

Dr. Thomas Maynard Taylor, after five years of teaching as In-
structor in Chemistry, to accept a similar position with the Carnegie
Technical School at Pittsburg.

Miss Lila Julia Wickwire, after six years of service as In-
structor in Physical Training, to accept the position of Director of
Physical Training at Knox College, Galesburg, 111.

Mr. Fritz Hagens, after one year of service as Instructor in Ger-
man. After brief study abroad, he is continuing his teaching in New
York City.

Mr. William Cleland Clancy, after two years of service (part
time) as teacher in the Men's Gymnasium, to give his entire time to
business.

Mr. Walter Wyatt McKay, after one year's service (part time)
as teacher in the Men's Gymnasium, to take up the study of medicine
in Columbia University.

Miss Alma Gracey Stokey, after two years* service as Assistant
in the Department of Botany, to take up further study in the Univer-
sity of Chicago.

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Mr. Herbert Arthur Sturges, after one year of service as Assist-
ant In Psychology, to take up further study abroad.

Miss Lora Douglas Fowler, after one year's service as Assistant
in Physical Training, to become Director of the Y. W. C. A. Gymna-
sium at South Bend, Ind.

Miss Mary Timbs, after three years' service as Stenographer In
the President's office, to be married.

Conservatory of Music
Mr. Richard Jose Ferrer, after a partial year's service as In-
structor in Violin.

Academy
Mr. Alexander Dick, after two years' service as Tutor in English,
to enter business in Chicago.

The President recognizes gratefully the efficient service
rendered by those whose resignations are here announced, and
the best wishes of the College attend them in all their future
plans.

Leave of Absence

In addition to these resignations, by vote of the Trustees at
the Semi- Annual meeting on June 18, 1906, leave of absence for
the year 1906-07 was granted to the following persons :

College

Mrs. Adella A. Field Johnston, Professor of Medlseval History,
for travel abroad.

Charles Beebe Martin, Professor of Greek Literature and Greek
Archaeology, for study abroad.

Conservatory of Music
Howard Handel Carter, Professor of Pianoforte! for study
abroad.

Miss Lucretia Celestia Wattles, Professor of Pianoforte, for study
abroad.

Academy
Miss Clara Louise Smithe, Instructor in Latin, to regain her
health.

Miss E. Louise Brownback, Instructor in English, for one year.

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Libraxy
Miss Eoline Spaulding, Head Cataloguer, from June 1 to Sep-
tember 20.

For the year 1905-06, leave of absence for one year was
granted to Lyman Bronson Hall, A.M., Professor of History;
Albert Temple Swing, D.D., Professor of Church History;
Frederick Giraud Doolittle, Professor of Violin ; William De-
Weese Cairns, A. M., Associate Professor of Mathematics ; Her-
bert Harroun, A.B., Instructor in Singing ; Earl Foote Adams,
A. M., Instructor in Physics ; William Eugene Mosher, Ph. D.,
Instructor in German ; Mrs. Alice E. Mead Swing, A.B., Tutor
in German. Professor Hall, Professor Swing, Professor Doo-
little, Dr. Mosher, and Mrs. Swing, have all returned to take
up their former lines of teaching. Mr. Cairns and Mr. Har-
roun are continuing their study abroad, and Mr. Adams is
studying at Harvard University. Besides these absences dur-
ing the college year, Professor John Taylor Shaw was abroad
for travel for the entire vacation, acting as an instructor and
leader under the Bureau of University Travel.

Dr. Charles E. St. John received the degree of Master in
Pedagogy from the Michigan State Normal College at their
Commencement; was elected to membership in the SocieU
Francaise de Physique; and, with Dr. Fred Eugene Leonard,
spent the summer in Yellowstone Park for scientific observation.
Professor E. A. Miller received the degree of Master of Arts
from the University of Chicago. Professor F. O. Grover was
elected a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advance-
ment of Science.

Promotions

The following well-deserved promotions were made by the
Trustees at the Semi- Annual meeting, June 18, 1906 :

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Theological Seminaiy
Kemper Fullerton, A.M., to be permanent Professor of Old Testa-
ment Language and Literature.

CoU«ge

Miss Florence Mary Fitch, Ph. D., to be Dean of College and
Graduate women and permanent Professor of Philosophy.

William Eugene Mosher, Ph. D., to be Associate Professor of the
German Language and Literature, for two years.

G>iuervatory of Musk

John Arthur Demuth, to be Professor of Pianoforte.

Charles King Barry, Mus.B.., to be Professor of Pianoforte.

William Treat Upton, Mus.B., to be Professor of Pianoforte.

William Jasper Homer, Mus. B., to be permanent Instructor in
Singing.

Orville Alvin Llndquist, Mus.B., to be permanent Instructor
in Pianoforte.

Academy

Mrs. Edith Cole Fargo, Ph.B., to be Dean of Academy Women,
Permanent appointment.

Edward James Moore, A.M., to be Tutor in Mathmatics for one
year, with increase of salary.

Joseph Roy Ellis, A. B., Tutor in Declamation and Athletic Coach,
to be given two divisions of History of the English Literature in Col-
lege.

Libraiy
Miss Antoinette Putnam Metcalf, A. B., to be permanent Refer-
ence Librarian.

Women's Gymnasium
Miss Frances Elizabeth Jones, to be Assistant in Physical Train-
ing, partial work for one year.

The Theological Seminary is to be congratulated on having
secured so thoughtful a scholar and so stimulating a teacher as
Professor Fullerton. The permanent appointments of Dr.
Fitch, Mrs. Fargo and Miss Metcalf, and the promotions of Dr.
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quist, have followed in due course and in simple recognition of
the high quality of the work done by these instructors. In the
case of Mr. Moore and Mr. Ellis somewhat more advanced
work was given, as well as increase of salary. Miss Jones had
already proved her efficiency as an assistant in the gymnasium.

Reappointments

The list of reappointments for the year, as voted by the
Trustees at their Semi- Annual meeting, follows :

General

Winiam Frederick Bohn, D.B., as Secretary to the President, for
one year.

College

Russell Parsons Jameson, A.M., as Instructor in the French Lan-
guage and Literature and Instructor in Physical Training, for one
year.

Edwin B. Branson, Ph. D., as Instructor In Geology, for one year.

James Seymour Luckey, A.M., as Instructor in Mathematics and
Physics, for one year.

Paul Griswold Iluston, A. M., as Instructor in English Ck)mpo-
sition, for one year.

Gilbert Lee Penock, A.M., as Instructor in English Ck>mposition,
for one year.

Gordon Nelson Armstrong, A.M., as Instructor in Mathematics,
for one year.

Walter R. Myers, Ph. B., as Instructor in German, for one year.

Miss Anna M. Starr. A. B., as First Assistant in the Botanical
Laboratory, for one year.

William Garfield Mallory, A. B., as Assistant in the Physical
Laboratory, for one year.

G>iiMnratory of Mutk

Mrs. Charles W. Williams, as Instructor in Violin, for one year.

Miss Lucile Reed, A.B., as Teacher of Public School Music, for
one year.

Mrs. Bertha Miller, as Teacher of Ear Training, for one year.

Miss Ada Morris. Mus. B., as Instructor in Pianoforte, for one
year.

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Academy

Mrs. Alice E. Mead Swing, A.B., as Tutor in German, for one
year. Partial work.

Mrs. Mary T. C!owdery, Ph.B., as Tutor in French, for one year.

Miss Alice Cbipman McDauiels, A.B., as Tutor in Grerman, for
one year.

Roy Vernon Hill, A.B., as Tutor in Mathmatics, for one year.

John El>enezer Wirkler, A. M., as Tutor in History, for one year.

Charles Hulburd Burr, A. M., as Tutor in Physics, for one year.

Clark Harold Sackett, A.B., as Tutor in Botany and Zoology, for
one year.

Library

William Wirt Foote, as Assistant in the College Library, for one
year.

Miss Hattle Maude Henderson, A.B., as Assistant in the College
Library for one year.

Miss Mary Jean Frazer, as Assistant in the College Library for
one year.

Men's Gymnatiiun

Homer Waldo Spiers, as Teacher in the Men's Gymnasium, par-
tial work, for one year.

All these reappointments are of tested workers and call for
no special comment.

New AppoinUnents

The list of new appointments, made by the Trustees at the
Semi-Annual meeting, is as follows :

College

Mr. R. A. Budington, A.M., as Associate Professor of Zoology,
for one year, looking to permanency. The appointment to begin in the
fall of 1907.

Miss E. M. Kitch, A.B., as Assistant in Psychology, for one year,
to take the place left vacant by the resignation of Mr. Sturges.

Mr. G. D. Allen, as Assistant in the Zoological Laboratory, for
one year.

Mr. C. B. Wilson, A.B., as Second Assistant in the Botanical Lab-
oratory, for one year.

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CoDsenratory of Mutic

Mr. Walter Peck Stanley, as Instructor In Pianoforte, begin-
ning January 3, 1906, for the remainder of the college year, and for
the college year of 1906-07.

Mr. Edward B. Manning, as Instructor In Violin and Ck>mpo-
sitlon, beginning January 3, 1906, for the remainder of the college
year, and for the college year 1906-07.

Mr. John Ross Frampton, Mus.B., as Instructor In Organ, for one
year.

Mr. George Carl Hastings, Mus.B., as Instructor In Pianoforte,
for one year.

Mrs. Eileen 0*Moore, as Instructor In Violin, for one year.

Aeademy

Ernest Barrett Chamberlain, A.M., as Tutor in English, for one
year.

Miss Florence Westlake, A.B., as Tutor in English, for one year,
to take the work laid down by Mr. Dick.

Men's Gymnasium
Mr. K. B. Ullman and Mr. E. L. Wertheim, as student teachers
in the Men's Gymnasium.

Women's Gjrmnasium
Miss Maud A. Monroe, as Instructor in Physical Training, for
one year, to take the work laid down by Miss Wickwlre.

Aside from these appointments, made by the vote of the
Trustees, the following extra appointments have been made by
action of the Prudential Committee: On February 5, it was
voted to appoint Mr- Harry Haslup Doering as assistant in
the Department of Botany, for the second semester of 1905-06 ;
during the summer Mr. Clarence A. Morrow was appointed
Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, for the college year
1906-07, in place of Mr. W. H. Chapin, resigned, and Mr. W.
H. Chapin was appointed Instructor in Chemistry, in place of
Dr. Thomas Maynard Taylor, resigned; Miss May E. Allen
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college year 1906-07, in place of Miss M. E. Brownback, absent
on leave. For the present year the Prudential Committee has
also approved of an extra section in first year French, to be
taken by Mr. R. P. Jameson, and an additional section in second
year German, to be taught by Fraulein Marie Grebe, and
another laboratory section in Freshman Botany, under the care
of Mr. C. B. Wilson.

The appointment of Mr. R. A. Budington, as Associate
Professor of Zoology, is made upon the suggestion of Profes-
sor-elect Maynard M. Metcalf, with whom he is to be asso-
ciated as soon as the present library building can be taken for
the Department of Zoology. The postponement of the new
library building will defer the coming of both Mr. Metcalf and
Mr. Budington for another year, as the enlarged work in the
I>epartment of Zoology can hardly be undertaken without more
room than is now available.

Mr. Budington is a graduate of Mount Hermon School in
the class of 1892, and of Williams College in the class of 1896.
From 1896 to 1898 he was a sub-master and teacher of Math-
ematics and Sciences in Dow Academy, Franconia, New
Hampshire ; for the year 1898-99, Assistant in Biology in Wil-
liams College, taking his master's degree at the end of this
year. For the year 1899-1900 he was a graduate student in
zoology, psycholog)', and botany at Columbia University. For
the years 1900-02, demonstrator of Physiology in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. His interest
in his own early school led him to accept the position as teacher
of zoology and physiology at Mount Hermon School for the
years 1902-05. Last year and this he has been Instructor in
Biology in Wesleyan University, in charge of the work of
zoology, and during frequent absences of the head of the de-
partment conducting work in general biology, physiology, and
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at different times, in biology at the Marine Biological Labora-
tory at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, and has done valuable re-
search work.

The laboratory assistants in the College are, of course,
appointed upon the recommendation of the heads of the de-
partments concerned, and are thoroughly competent for the
work they undertake.

In the Conservatory of Music the appointments of Mr.
Stanley and Mr. Manning follow naturally upon the thoroughly
satisfactory work of the year 1905-06. Mr. Hastings and Mr.
Frampton are graduates of the Conservatory of Music in 1900
and 1904 respectively, and are tested both in teaching and in
study here and elsewhere. Mr. Frampton is also a graduate
of the College of the class of 1901, and has been teaching in
the muiscal department of Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa; and
Mr. Hastings has just returned from three years' study abroad.
During the last year he has been doing some teaching in Leipsic
as well as study. Mrs. O'Moore brings to her work, not only
extraordinary ability as a violinist, but very careful preparation
for teaching.

In the Academy, Mr. Chamberlain is one of our own
graduates of the class of 1904, has had successful experience in
teaching, and has done graduate work chiefly along English
lines. Miss Westlake is a graduate of Oberlin of the class of
1902, and comes from successful teaching at Collinwood. Miss
Monroe is also one of our own graduates of the class of 1903,
taking the Physical Training Diploma in connection with her
degree. She has been teaching at Mount Holyoke, and comes
to us with warm recommendations.

Organization

The constitution of the College Faculty remains essentially
as last year. Two or three committees have been somewhat

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enlarged and the Committee on Student Conferences is likely
to become one of increasing importance, with, the development
of the Men's Student Senate and the corresponding organiza-
tion contemplated by the young women. The full list of com-
mittees is published in the earlier pages of this report. The
more careful organization of the work of the Committee on
Commencement once more justified itself in the increasing
smoothness and satisfactoriness with which the arrangements
for Commencement were carried through. In order that the
work and organization of the Faculty n^y be kept thoroughly
democratic, the President has recently addressed a letter to all
the members of the Faculty, asking them especially to note the
responsibility and privilege which they have in connection with
the various department faculties and the general faculty, and
urging the need of care as well in attendance upon the chapel
exercises, if the unity of the College is everywhere to be pre-
served. With the growth of the College, and with the work
organized as apparently it must be organized, there is prac-
tically no single place in which the whole institution comes
together unless the chapel exercises can be made that place. It
seems important to the President that all members of the Fac-
ulty, as well as all students, should be in attendance upon the
common worship of the College, if real unity of spirit is to be
preserved. This is not intended to indicate any spirit of dis-
sension in the Faculty, for that certainly does not exist, but
only the desire on the part of the President to secure still more
completely the marked spirit of co-operation that has hitherto
prevailed.

The work of the Faculty was still further helped by
the publication during the year of the memoranda for the
convenience of the Faculty, containing full data upon the
constitution of the Faculties and Councils", the general actions
adopted at various times for the guidance of the Faculty,

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and the full statement of the present schedule of bills and
fees for late registration and private examinations.

The Faculty have been brought together at various social
occasions during the year, including the President's luncheon,
given this year in two parts, as elsewhere noted.

Importofit Official Actions

Several of the more important actions of the Faculty have
already been recorded in the votes taken by the Trustees or
by the Prudential Committee, but a number of other items de-
serve mention.

March 14, 1906, the following changes In the schedule were
adopted :

1. That in the Ck)llege, Seminary, and Conservatory there be
four one-hour morning periods, as at present, but beginning at 8
o'clock instead of 7 :30, and that chapel come at 12 :00, and that there
be only a single afternoon recitation period.

2. That in the College halls, dinner be served at 5:30 o'clock,
study hour beginning at 7 :30 through the year, and the hour of even
ing entertainments remain as at present (Literary societies will
meet at 6 :30 on Mondays. )

May 1, it was voted to authorize printing in the College publica-
tions the names of the ten Freshmen who, during the first semester,
attained the highest standing.

This vote was taken that a recognition might be given to
scholarship, somewhat similar to that given to distinction in
athletics, oratory, etc. The College has never favored stimu-
lating scholarship by prizes, but it does not wish to put attain-
ment in scholarship at a distinct disadvantage, as compared
with attainment in other directions.

To avoid virtual repetition of work on the part of some
students, the following action concerning the Sophomore re-
quirements in science was taken :

That two classes in Chemistry be offered : a course In beginning
Chemistry, to be known as Chemistry la, and another course to be
known as Chemistry lb.

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That Chemistry la shall not be open to students who have of-
fered Chemistry and received entrance credit for it

That those who receive entrance credit for Chemistry must take
Chemistry lb or Physics 1 as their Sophomore science.

This action makes certain that each Sophomore shall be
carrying one strong course in Science.

Three votes of the Faculty taken since the beginning of
the present college year, though falling strictly outside the
limits of this report, may still be appropriately discussed in
connection with student discipline in a later section of the re-
port. These votes were to remove the rule forbidding young
men and young women from walking together after dinner
before 7 :30 p. m. ; to revoke the rule requiring attendance
upon the Sunday morning church service for the College,
Conservatory, and Seminary students ; and to approve of the
constitution of the Student Senate of the Men of Oberlin
College.

Reports

As last year, the reports of the Faculty are classified into
four large groups: Bibliography, Language, Literature, and
Art; Mathematics and the Sciences; History and Economics;
Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Theology. The pub-
lications and outside work of the Faculty will be grouped else-
where.

Bibliography. Language, Literature, and Aft

Professor A. S. Root presents the following interesting
report for the work in Bibliography:

The numbers electing these courses continue very large, when
one considers the nature of the courses, and the relatively small
number of students to whom they are likely to appeal. The large
numbers I consider due, in part, to the attractiveness of some of the
courses, but chiefly to the fact that there is an increasing number
of young women who are looking forward to library work as a pos-
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fits which they are likely to bring in the library field. The equip-
ment available for use in the courses is slowly increasing, and
the gift of Mr. Charles Finney C!ox, of the Latin Bible published by
Anthony Koburger, of Nuremberg, in 1478, Is a most welcome addi-
tion for the use of the class in the History of Printing. I think It
ratlier remarkable that in a library ot limited means as ours, we
should have something like fifteen or twenty incunabula, and a very
large number of sixteenth century books. I wish some man inter-
ested in collecting examples of printing, particularly the fine printing
of the* present day, such as the Kelmscott Press, and other private
presses, could be interested to give his collection to the College. With
such help as this, the work of giving instruction in the History of
Printing would be comparatively easy. The course in the Use of the
Library, which is usually taken by twenty to twenty-five Freshmen
and Sophmores, is I am sure, a very valuable course, and I should be
glad if more would take It, and yet I do not see how I could handle
many more without making another section, since there Is very much
work to be reported on each day in the actual handling of the books
referred to, and the course, unless this were done, would be of com-
paratively little value. For the course In Book Illustration, there is
great need of better facilities than we have. Some kinds of illustra-
tions, as copper engravings, etchings, mezzo-tint*?, photogravures, and
half tones can be readily Illustrated from the material In the library,
but dry points, aqua tints, soft ground etchings, and some other kinds
of illustration, are seldom found In lKX)ks. and it is almost Impossible
for me to illustrate and to familiarize the pupils with these kinds
of prints, without forming something of a collection of prints. If
you could suggest in your report the value which would come to this
course from having a collection of prints In the possession of the
College, it might result In leading some collector of prints to add to
our limited equipment.

The work of Dean Bosworth, as Professor of the Kew
Testmnent Language and Literature, has continued along the
same lines followed last year.

In the Department of the Old Testament Language and
Literature, Professor Kemper Fullerton notes that the class in
the History of Israel continues exceptionally large.

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Professor Charles Beebe Martin, reporting for the De-
partment of Greek and Greek Archeology, calls especial atten-
tion to the need of still further provision for the Library and
for archaeological material, but gratefully recognizes at the
same time the help that has already been granted through the
increase in the library appropriation. He expresses also his
renewed conviction of the value of the course in beginning
Greek. It is interesting to notice that that course, carried as
hitherto by Mr. Louis E. Lord, is this year 26, larger than it
has ever been before. As Mr. Lord says :

The course forms a valuable feeder for the Freshman Greek
and affords an opportunity for Freshmen to study Greek who have
been unable to study that language in the schools from which they
came.

Mr. Lord emphasizes two needs of the Department, of
which the President will later speak : the need of more courses
in Ancient History, and of courses in Greek and Roman Lit-
erature for English readers.

Dr. Charles Nelson Cole, Professor of the Latin Language
and Literature, reports that the experience of last year and the
opening of the present year indicate that the Latin Department
is "likely to need not less than twenty-nine hours of instruction
all the time," and would even then "be unable to give such de-
sirable courses as a history of the Latin Literature illustrated
in English would be, or to take over the course in Roman
History." Dr. Cole adds :

I am constrained, therefore, to urge that the time has fully
come when the Instructor in Latin should give his full time to this
department, and to point out that suitable expansion of the work In
Greek, Latin, and related subjects will soon require the appointment
of still another teacher for the two departments. Indeed, I am not
able now to see what disposition is to be made of the elementary
Greek course next year, if the Latin instructor should be withdrawn
from that course.

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The following suggestive report from Miss Frances J.
Hosford, Associate Professor of Latin in the Academy, may
here be added :

Since these reports are wanted largely for the work of correla-
tion, it may not be out of place to speak of entrance requirements,
from the view-point of the secondary teacher. The small amount of
required language and the system of balancing conditions make it
possible to admit to the Freshman class students who have had
none of the training which comes from continuity in language study
— whose language work is still so very elementary that they cannot
be said to have proved their ability to carry any language into the
stage of applying first principles to work of any difficulty, or of any
literary significance. In this connection, I am sure that the over-
grown demand for beginning French and German in College shows a
lack of wisdom in the student's elections before and upon entrance.
I mean that some should have givea more time to language in the
secondary school, and that others should continue the language which
they have carried to the point of profiting by college methods, instead
of repeating their elementary work upon a new one.

Miss Arietta M. Abbott, Professor of the German Lan-
guage and Literature, reports as follows :

The establishment of a second instructorship in German has put
the department on a basis much desired. The work of the year was
carried on by the professor in charge and Instructors Hagens and
Myers. The German Club was organized for the first time as a for-
mal student body, with the prime object of cultivating facility in
German conversation. It had an average attendance of eighty mem-
bers. At the end of the year the Club gave, under the special di-
rection of Mr. Myers, Lessing*s Minna von Bamhelm, so far as I
know the first classic German drama to be put on the stage in Oberlin.

To this report of Miss Abbott may be added the follow-
ing paragraphs from the report of Associate Professor William
E. Mosher:

It is the hope of Miss Abbott and myself that the students may
have Increasingly more opportunities of hearing German and learn-
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more real to them by means of the German Club, lectures by Germans
and Americans, stereoptlcon slides, etc. We recognize these expe-
dients only as means to an end. The aim is that the students, after
having overcome the language difficulty as such, may be able to inter-
pret and appreciate German Literature as literature without the
medium of translation. It is also our plan to develop in the advance
courses the seminar method, as far as many be, so that an independent
critical interest may be aroused among the students.

There has been so much added election in the Department
of the Romance Languages and Literatures that Professor J.
R. Wightman's statement of the work of that department for
the year is given in full :

During the past year the work of the Romance Department
was carried on by Mr. Cowdery, Mr. R. P. Jameson and your profes-
sor, who taught respectively, 17, 5, and 16 hours. Of these 38 hours,
34 were in French and 4 in Italian. Mr. Jameson's appointment had
been rendered neoesgary by the large size of two of the French
classes ; the first year or beginner's class, and the second year in Com-
position. He had spent the preceding summer in careful and suc-
cessful study in Paris, and pursuing his work along the same lines
during the year he was awarded at its close the degree of A. M. in
the department of Modern Languages in our college.

This present semester the number of students beginning the study
of French in college has shown a still greater increase — from 130 to
nearly 170 — and this has necessitated the forming of two new divis-
ions, a fifth and a sixth. These have been given to Mr. Jameson,
whose teaching now comprises 13 hours of class- work. The three-
hour course in Second year French numl)ers at present nearly 80
students, instead of from 50 to 55 as heretofore. The instructors are
doing their best to handle these in two divisions, but evidently it can-
not be efficiently done. As this class promises to be even larger next
year it seems very necessary that a third division should be provided
for. This would call for the full services — viz., 10 hours of teaching
— of a third man in the department for next year, and we would
recommend that Mr. Jameson be appointed Instructor in French.

Outside of the work of the class-room, the teachers of French con-
ducted the French Circle, which is a branch of the "Alliance Fran-
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As had been the case during the past two years the French De-
partment invited the lecturer of the Alliance to visit Oberlin and we
are glad that he was able to do so. M. Julien Tiersot, Librarian of
the Paris Conservatory of Music and a leading authority on the
Folk-song, was our visitor this year. He lectured in French on
**The French Popular Songs," and greatly pleased us not only by his
lecture but by the sympathy and expression with which he rendered
many of the songs. We wish we could bring here each year the dis-
tinguished French savant who comes to this country. But such a lec-
turer, though his lecture be most helpful and stimulating, must nec-
essarily appeal to but a comparative few. The audience that listened
to M. Tiersot, niunbering perhaps some 125, was probably larger than
could be secured in most towns and colleges of this size, and yet
it was quite insufficient to meet the expenses. It may thus be impos-
sible for us, without some outside help, to be one of the three or four
places in our state to invite these lecturers. It seems exceedingly de-
sirable that there should be a fund — not necessarily a very large one
— to establish for us a series of Departmental lectures, and that would
secure for us visits from distinguished savants of our own or foreign
universities. Other lectures — besides the one already mentioned of
M. Tiersot — of special interest to the French Department, were, one
by the head of the department on the Alhambra, lectures by Mr.
Cowdery on Paris and the Cathedral of Chartres, and a lecture in
French by M. Michelon, of Paris. All of these lectures were copiously
illustrated by stereopticon views.

Early in the year it was decided to attempt the rendering of a
French play by our students. It was felt that the plan would involve
the expenditure of no little time and effort on the part of both the
instructors and the actors participating, but hopes were cherished
that the results to be obtained would be a full compensation. And
such proved to be the case. The play chosen was Moliere's "Les Pre-
cieuses Ridicules," a short and bright comedy. It was given in ap-
propriate costumes and before a good audience. The acting and
enunciation were most creditable, and the entertainment was a
source of enjoyment to all, and no little help to students of French.

Professor Cowdery of the same department also calls at-
tention to the need of a fund for special lectures. The Presi-
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very much to help out the work of all the departments of study
by bringing, for occasional lectures, men of distinction in these
different subjects.

The need of some increase of teaching force in the De-
partment of English is made clear by the report of Professor
Charles H. A. Wager, some paragraphs of which are here
given:

In estimating the work of the Department of English for the
past year, two things become evident : One is, the need of more ad-
vanced courses in literature and composition, and this I pointed out
in my last report One new elective course in literature has been
added this year.

The other point Is one upon which my conviction Is daily
strengthening. It is that our present methods and resources, in
our work In composition are wholly inadequate. Instructors who
teach twelve hours a week have, of course, little opportunity for
theme-reading. This throws the greater part of this theme-correction,
which, I need not say, Is quite the most important part of the teaching
of composition, upon student assistants, or other outside help. Even
under the most favorable conditions, that is, when it Is possible to
secure and pay for expert theme-correction, the student does not then
come into vital and helpful relations with the instructors, whom, for
the most part, he meets only In the lecture-room. There seems to me
only one remedy, and that a heroic one: to provide a corps of In-
structors large enough so that each teacher may be responsible for a
limited number of students, say fifty or seventy-five. Then, I would
so reduce the required hours of lecturing that the Instructors might
do, all their own theme-reading, and hold frequent conferences with
students. I am aware that this is a counsel of perfection, but it de-
scribes a condition which prevails in more than one American col-
lege and to which, I am sure, we shall more and more approximate.

Meanwhile, I should recommend that we Increase the force of
instruction as fast as possible, and that we make definite provision
to enable instructors to do their theme-reading and hold conferences
with students. I see no one way in which time can be gained for this
except by reducing the required number of lectures. And the fact is
that two lectures a week. In such a subject as English Composition,
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or once In two weeks, would, I believe, suffice. The advantage of
having a student attend two classes a week in this subject Is almost
wholly a mechanical one. It palpably justifies his two hours of
credit on the registrar's books. And this I hold to be true, quite ir-
respective of the quality of the teaching. The best that a man has
to give can be given in direct personal intercourse, and many an able
man will succeed in this way who is totally unequal to the impossible
task of lecturing twice a week for a year on more or less elementary
composition. I should like to see a beginning made in this direction
next year. Only so, shall we do anything like justice to our students
in this most important subject. One thing is clear: at any cost, un-
skilled theme-reading must go.

These suggestions of Professor Wager are further sec-
onded by other instructors in the department.

Professor William G. Caskey of the Department of
Oratory and Rhetoric comments with satisfaction upon the new
plans for debate and the growing interest in Oratory.

The work In Oratory and Debate continues to gain ground in
the field of student interest. Since my last report one round of de-
bates has been held under the new arrangement. The essential feat-
ure of the new arrangement gives each institution one debate at home
and one away from home; both occurring on the same night. The
plan, after a trial year, gives good satisfaction. In the reorganiza-
tion of the League, we have secured an agreement to make the de-
bates strictly undergraduate contests. This, we hope, will not only
stimulate an interest in debate at the right place in a student's
preparation, but will give zest to the contest itself.

The annual contest of The Northern Oratorical Association was held
in Oberlin last May. The opportunity of hearing the best product of
the oratory of the various institutions in the Association seemed to
l)e appreciated by the students. The loyal support of this department
of student interest was attested by the attendance at the contest At
no other place of holding the contest has so large an audience greeted
the contestants. The visitors mentioned with unusual appreciation
the treatment accorded by Oberlin students, and I am sure that the
promotion of good fellowship between the various institutions Is no
small part of such annual meetings.

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The report of Professor Albert H. Currier is for the
twenty-fifth year of his service as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric
and Practical Theology, and indicates the steady interest with
which his work has been carried on. A single paragraph is
added from this report :

My continued interest has been fed and maintained, of course, by
keeping up my studies in tlie branches I teach. During the last year
I hiave greatly extended the range of my acquaintance with Homiletic
writers and preachers, explored new fields In the extensive literature
of Foreign Missions, which is becoming very rich and attractive, and
read much concerning the Social Problems of our day, and the
various means — some of them old and well tested and some recently
adopted and promising much good — that are employed for their solu-
tion. The greater part of my summer vacation was given to these
studies.

The report of Miss Eva M. Oakes, Instructor in Drawing
and Painting, calls especial attention to the Art Loan Exhibit
held this year :

During the month of May I had the good fortune to secure the
loan of more than a hundred original drawings and paintings by Mr.
B. H. Blashfield, and Mr. Kenyon Cox, of New York. These artists are
of first rank as mural painters, and the exhibition consisted of prelim-
inary drawings and paintings, which had been used in the decoration
of some of the most prominent public buildings in the United States.
This was the first exhibition of original work ever shown in Oberlin.
and it afforded my students and others an opportunity of seeing the
work of artists seldom seen outside the large cities.

The following account of the Art Exhibition, submitted
by Professor Charles N. Cole, should find a place at this point :

In the absence of both Professor Martin and Professor John-
ston it seems to devolve upon me to report the chief items of inter-
est regarding the Art Exhibition given from March 26 to April 6, 1906.

The Exhibition was in Itself undoubtedly the most attractive and
valuable yet held. Its range, because of limitations of space avail-
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exhibitions, but its content and arrangement of material were super-
ior to anything that had preceded. From the college collections there
was little on exhibition that had been shown before, and the loans
were much more varied and interesting than in previous years. Es-
pecially noteworthy as novel features of this Exhibition were the
Keppel collection of original engravings, the Japanese wood engrav-
ings In color, the illustrations of the Sidon sarcophagi loaned by
Western Reserve University, the autotype reproductions of modem
French art, loaned by the Chicago Art Institute, and, perhaps the
most striking of all, the collection of casts gathered from the Col-
lege possessions and loaned by friends. For aid in securing the
loans, the Committee Is indebted to a number of friends, most of all
to Dr. Dudley Allen for the Keppel engravings and Professor Grover
for the Japanese color prints. Cordial acknowledgments are due also
the students of the classical departments for the gift to the College,
with special reference to its use in this exhibition, of a beautiful cast
of the Aphrodite of Melos.

As in former years, a course of lectures on art and archaeolog-
ical subjects was given in connection- with the Exhibition, with the
use of the stereopticon to illustrate the evening lectures. Here again
the committee is under obligations to those outside its numbers who
kindly consented to help In this way. (The full list of lectures ap-
pears elsewhere in this report.)

The Art Reference Library of three hundred volumes proved, as
it did two years ago, a very profitable supplement to the display of
pictures and casts.

In financial returns also the Exhibition surpasesd those of pre-
vious years. After much discussion and with some misgivings, the
price of season tickets was raised from fifty cents to a dollar, and of
single admissions from fifteen to twenty-five cents ; a student's ticket,
good only on those days of the Exhibition on which the College was
in session, was also sold at a reduced rate. The results seem to have
justified the Innovations, though some complaints were heard be-
cause the course tickets were not transferable, at least within the
limits of a family. The gross receipts were $879.98; the expenses,
unusually heavy this year, amounted to $347.66; there was left
$532.32 as the net proceeds, as against $400 two years before. The
proceeds were divided equally between the departments of Modem
Art and of Greek and Roman Archceology.

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Advantage may be taken of Professor Martin's absence to com-
ment briefly upon the extent to which the success of the Exhibition
depends upon the exertions of the Chairman of the committee. The
trying nature of the worlt required in preparation for the occasion
and the weight of the inevitable responsibility throughout its contin-
uance can hardly be appreciated even by those who have done their
best to assist in the work. The Ck>mmittee as a whole is inclined to
question whether the results of the Exhibition are commensurate
with the heavy lalx)r involved. Should Professor Martin himself
take the position that they are not, it seems to me personally that
prompt acquiescence in that view would be much more fitting than
insistence upon continuing the custom of a biennial exhibition. It
also seema to me that there should be a different method of dis-
tributing the proceeds, if the exhibitions do continue, so as to give
the department of Greek Archaeology a larger proportion than it re-
ceives at present

Dr. Florence M. Fitch makes the following report for the
course offered in English Bible :

The division of the Freshman Bible Class, the increasing numl)er
of advanced students electing this course, after having completed the
requirement in it, and the larger enrolment in the purely elective
course during the last two years, should perhaps be mentioned. There
seems to be a growing recognition of the importance and value of
curriculum work in Bible study ; and the question may well be
raised whether Oberlin is appreciating its opportunity and obligation
in this line. Some adequate normal course seems the urgent need
of this department

To this report the President may simply add that the very
large numbers in the Freshman class seemed to make it exceed-
ingly desirable that the class should in some way be divided.
The number was quite too large to be handled with any com-
fort by any single instructor, and it was felt that, both for the
sake of giving the Dean of Women closer connection with the
young women of the entering class and of giving the President
and the Dean of the Theological Seminary a similar earlier
acquaintance and contact with the men of the Freshmen class,

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the class might well be divided in that way, Dean Fitch taking
all the young women and Dean Bosworth, with the President,
taking the men. The experience of the present semester indi-
cates that the plan is giving us a clear gain.

Mathematics and Sdences

The report of Professor Frederick Anderegg calls atten-
tion to the pressure for increased teaching in this department as
well.

The situation in the Department of Matliematics is alx)ut the
same as a year ago. In Professor Caims's absence his work is being
done with good success by Mr. Armstrong. The demand for courses
in Surveying and Mechanical Drawing has increased so much in the
last few years, that it seems necessary for the future to give courses
annually in both subjects, instead of in alternate years, as has been
our practice for some time. That means that at least one section
of Freshman mathematics now being taught by Mr. Armstrong will
have to be taken by some one else. The sections are again becoming
large. If we had class-rooms available, it would be better to form
more sections, and probably to employ an instructor to give his time
to Freshman mathematics.

Mr. Armstrong is giving an elective course in College Algebra, and
I am giving elective courses to undergraduate students in Analytic
Geometry, Calculus, and Theoretical Mechanics, and a course in
Modern Methods in Analytical Geometry to a class of graduates.

It seems to me that the interest on the part of the students is very
satisfactory, and that the quality of the work done by sudents and
teachers is high.

The value of the mathematical library has been greatly enhanced
since my last report, by the purchase of "Crelle's Journal filr Reine
and Angenwandte Mathematik," which was made possible by the gen-
erous gift of $500 by our trustee, Charles M. Hall.

To this report of Professor Anderegg may be added the
following sentences from Instructor G. N. Armstrong, who has
charge of the courses in Mechanical Drawing and Surveying.

It seems to me that the courses in Mechanical Drawing and Sur-
veying are attracting a sufficient number of students, now, to justify
the equipment of a room especially for them. It is quite probable

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that the same teacher will have charge of both courses for some time
to come, and a combination room might well be fitted up. I believe
that courses having fewer students have far better facilities.

The need of further facilities at this point is unmistakable.

The report of Dr. Charles E. St. John for the Department
of Physics and Astronomy shows not only the increase in that
department, but calls attention to the still larger demands that
are likely to be made for shop work, if that is to be undertaken
at all.

The number of students In this department was larger than in
any previous year and the condition emphasized again the need for
more, and more suitable room for the work of the department. We
in Peters Hall, found the crowding of classes was in evidence more
than ever before, and the condition raises the question of providing
more recitation and lecture rooms, particularly in view of the fact
that increasing numbers of students will make necessary an increase
in teaching force without rooms for the additional classes unless
something is done to relieve the situation. A new recitation hall
seems at present out of reach, but the adaptation of some dwelling
owned by the college to such uses would offer temporary solution of
what promises to be a very serious condition.

In my capacity as advisor to the men looking forward to technical
courses I was more and more impressed with the wisdom and from
some points of view the necessity of providing more work In Oberlin
College tliat would appeal to such men. The increasing number of
men in the Mechanical Drawing and Surveying courses shows the
drift of the men in that direction. It seems as if the time would
soon come when both these courses should be given each year Instead
of on alternate years, as at present This raises the question of
suitable rooms for these courses. I am becoming more and more of
the opinion that it would not be wise to install shop work in Peters
Hall. It would in a very short time prove inadequate, if not already so,
in view of the increased enrolment. Our experience shows that young
men from the Oberlin constituency will come to Oberlin of prefer-
ence, if tliey can find there what they want Perhaps the wisest
course now would be to build an inexpensive building in such a sit-
uation that it would be near the future Physics building and near

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also a possible engineering building. Such a building might be of
brick and plainly finiHhed, and two stories high, the second story
furnishing the much needed room for Mechanical Drawing and Sur-
veying. Such a plan would give the building a somewhat retired
situation and it would be available for use for engineering purposes
even after an engineering building became a reality.

Mr. J. S. Luckey gave half of his time as an instructor in this
department and Mr. W. G. Mallory was an assistant on part time
while doing graduate work. Both are efficient and loyal men. Miss
C. L. Rose was graduate student in Mathematics and Physics. She
was called to take charge of the work in Physics and Chemistry in
the High School at Atlantic Mine, Mich.

A plan was outlined last year and some start was made to equip
a photometer room to serve the double purpose of adding to the ef-
ficiency of the Laboratory equipment and of making it possible to
have some real check upon the quality of the gas and the electric
current supplied to the college by the Oberlin Gas and Electric Com-
pany.

The report of Professor F. F. Jewett, for the Department
of Chemistry, notes the fact that the entire Chemical Building
is already needed for the use of that department alone, so that
the department has to make some sacrifice when the building is
used for other work. The demands made by the increasing
number of students are here also made plain.

The class in general chemistry this fall numbers 171, the largest
number we have ever had in this subject. These are taught In the
laboratory in three divisions, but even this arrangement makes it
necessary to have a larger number in the room at the same time than
can work to good advantage. If the teaching force in the depart-
ment were larger so that the laboratory could be open the entire day,
forenoon as well as afternoon, the congested condition of the room
would be relieved, and the students could work to better advantage.
Tills arrangement would be possible if we could employ more ad-
vanced students to prepare re-agents, provide apparatus, etc., work
that is now done by a regular assistant, leaving the latter his whole
time to devote to students. This arrangement would be required only
for the first semester, although very desirable throughout the year.

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Professor F. O. Grover makes the following report for the
Department of Botany:

The number of students registered in the department of Botany
for the year 1905-06 was 142, as contrasted with 121 for 1904-05.
This increase is almost entirely in the course in Organic Evolution
which shows a gain of 20. This is due to the transfer of the course
from the first to the last hour of the forenoon at the request of a
number of the Senior Class, the latter hour having a minimum of
Senior conflicts.

By this change the course has become practically a Senior
Elective, as the Juniors are barred by conflict with required Psychol-
ogy, the Freshmen are ineligible, and most Sophomores find their
year's worlv mapped out in other directions. The class consisted of
21 seniors, 3 iwst -graduates, and 1 sophomore. The present year
(lIX)G-07) there are 26 seniors, and 1 post-graduate. I find it a
course that appeals strongly to men, as during 1905-06, 54% of the
class were men, while during the present year 6.3% are men.

I feel that the course, which I Introduced with some hesitancy, has
passed safely beyond the experimental stage, and that it has demon-
strated that there was a real need for its existence. I hope I can
make the course In some measure meet the need.

The work of the other courses requires no comment, as the char-
acter of the teaching and the number of students have undergone no
change.

During the year Miss Anna M. Starr, of the class of 1906, was my
first assistant in the laboratory, and Mr. H. H. Doering, of the class
of 1906, was my assistant in Dendrology. Both gave very satisfac-
tory assistance in every way, proving most excellent teachers and
fully qualified for their positions. Miss Starr spent several weeks
of the summer in graduate work in botany at Woods Hole, Mass., and
returns better equipped than before for her work as assistant this
>ear.

Miss Alma G. Stokey, of the class of 1905, was Assistant in the
herbarium on a special appointment for the year. She rearranged
the entire herbarium according to modern principles of classification.
Identified a considerable amount of unclassified material, and pre-
pared several thousand sheets of plants for the permanent collec-
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herbarium more accessible for use, and in incorporating new ma-
terial. During the three years that Miss Stolcey has been my as-
sistant she has done her work with unusual ability. She is a woman
of great promise. This year she is a graduate student in Botany at
the University of Chicago.

The additions to the herbariiun have Ijeen smaller and fewer than
usual during the year. The principal addition was R. B. Hough's
collection of 260 species of American Woods. This was by pur-
chase.

The work in the Department of Zoology has been carried
efficiently under the supervision of Dr. Lynds Jones, Associate
Professor of Zoology, with the special assistance of Dr. E. B.
Branson. Dr. Jones reports upon the courses carried by him
in detail, urging the value of elementary Zoology courses for
Freshmen, and the contribution made by the course in Orni-
thology in making a college student alive to his natural envi-
ronment.

With reference to the Museum, Dr. Jones makes the very
natural suggestion that it would be very appropriate to make
Dr. Branson curator of the Geological Museum, as it seems
inevitable that the Museum should be divided when the Geology
is given a building by itself.

Dr. E. B. Branson reports for the Department of Geology
and his report is given entire :

I gave ten hours' work in geology in 1905-06, five hours general
geology, three hours economic geology, and two hours paleontology.
I also gave a nine-hour field course In the summer school. The
purpose of this course was to fit men for practical work on state
and national geological surveys and to prepare them to teach geology
and geography effectively. Twenty-five dollars was taken from the
museum fund to help pay the expense of the course. The specimens
collected by the class repaid the museum more than tenfold. The
course cost one hundred dollars. This is about half what it would
regularly cost, as I did the teaching for about half pay in order
to get the work started. But the specimens collected for the museum
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advisable to give the summer course regularly and put It in the regu-
lar college schedule rather than in that of the summer school. It is
necessary to the development of a strong geological department.
Men who expect to work in geology must have field work, and
if they cannot get it here they will go to some other school during the
summer. If the course is listed in the regular college catalogue it
will draw men for the summer. Besides the nine hours* summer
course, three hours of physiography, two hours of continental evolution,
and one hour of paleontology have been added to the schedule of geo-
logical courses, making twenty-five hours in all. Next year I want
to offer eight additional hours, two hours petrology, two hours dyna-
mic geology, and four hours economic geology. This would give a
total of thirty-three hours and would enable students who take all the
work to pass the United States Geological Survey examination, or get
employment on state surveys. All of the work might be taken by
undergraduates, or if students desired, they might take a master*s
degree in geology. The work would be similar to that given by uni-
versities for the master's degree. The extra courses would require
little extra equipment.

The cataloguing is the most important work done in the museum
in 1905-06. Each specimen or group of specimens of the same
species is numbered and listed in a museum catalogue ; each specimen
or group of specimens of the same species is listed on a card and the
cards are arranged alphabetically. The original labels of the speci-
mens are kept in envelopes, five in an envelope, and these are so ar-
ranged that the labels may be referred to at once. When the card
catalogue is completed any specimen in the museum may be found
without delay by referring to it In 1905-06 more than thirteen hun-
dred species, represented by more than five thousand specimens, of
fossils were tlius catalogued. More than a thousand specimens of
rocks and minerals were catalogued in the same way. I expect to
have the cataloguing completed in three years. Some of the specimens
collected during the year are new to science. I am working on them
now and expect to publish the result of my work in the near future.

Dr. F. E. Leonard, reporting for the Department of
Physiology and Physicd Training, points out some changes in
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Physical Training. Two paragraphs from Professor Leonard's
report are here given.

The only ebange in my teaching last year was the addition of an
hour a week of instruction in fencing, given to Junior men in the
Teacher*s Course in Physicai Training throughout the first semes-
ter, and a one-hour cours«» on the physical examination and the pre-
scription of exercise offered to the same men in the second semester.
The relief afforded by the assistance which Mr. R. P. Jameson. In-
structor in Physical Training, rendered in the examining room and
in portions of the office work, made it possible to add these courses
without much increase in the demands upon my time.

During the Easter vacation I visited Philadelphia and New York
in order to become familiar with certain features of the equipment,
organization, and management of the departments of physical train-
ing at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, with
a side trip to Princeton University and an opportunity for conference
with leaders in various phases of physical training In New York
City.

History and Economics

Professor Albert Temple Swing, of the Department of
Church History, expresses his satisfaction with the year's leave
of absence, from which he has just returned, and his belief in
the value for the College of this plan for occasional leave of
absence on the part of the Faculty. On returning to his work
in the College, he expresses also his apprehension of the danger
of growing too much in the direction of the modern university
methods and spirit, and especially of the danger of multiplying
two and three hour elective courses in comparison with four and
five hour courses.

In the absence of Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston for her year
abroad, no report is submitted for her courses.

Professor Lyman B. Hall, of the Department of History,
has also just returned from his year of study and travel in
England. Professor Hall carried into his travel and study all
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year has been of great value to him, especially in its bearing on
his courses in English and American History.

Dr. Albert Benedict Wolfe, Associate Professor of
Economics and Sociology, makes his first report for that de-
partment. The needs in this department are so great and the
wisdom of extending it is so clear that the report of Dr.
Wolfe is presented in its entirety :

Every Instructor no doubt has certain lines of thought in which
he feels he can do his best work, where he feels his own interest will
help create and maintain a real and vital Interest on the part of the
student ; certain courses where from his point of view of the purpose
of college training and of the study of the social sciences the central
emphasis should be placed ; and certain methods and sequences of
courses he feels should be followed, under given conditions. Pur-
suant to the advice of Professor Carver, to my own views, and to the
remarkable freedom of action permitted by President and Faculty,
I made some changes In courses at once upon taking up my work,
last year.

The five-hour elementary course which had been placed In the
second semester with a view to accommodating sophomores Just fin-
ishing required chemistry was placed In the first semester to make
way for two new courses in the second semester. The Economic
History of the United States was continued as a two-hour course but
no longer as a necessary prerequisite for the elementary course. The
courses in Money and Banking and In Transportation and the Tariff
were for the time omitted, and Sociology made a three- instead of a
t>;\'o-hour course. In the secx)nd semester a course in Modem Indus-
trial Organization (labor problems) was substituted for the Finan-
cial History of the United States, and one in Socialism and Social
Reform for the course In Charities and Corrections, These changes
were made with a view to probable future developments, In the hope
that by next year at the latest we may h^ve a second Instructor In
the department, with a division of work in accord to the peculiar
interests and fitness of each of us, without sacrificing the interest of
the student to the whim of the Instructor. Certain further changes
looking primarily toward securing the proper emphasis upon thought-
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industrial and civic citizenship, liave been made. The five-hour ele-
mentary course, previously running but one semester, is now a
three-hour course for the whole year and a required preparation for
all other courses with the exception of sociology. The design is not
only to make it a thorough preparatory course, but a general course
for those who do not expect to take more economics. The hope Is
while making it a good, substantial course, with strong texts, a con-
siderable amount of library reading, frequent tests and quizzes, and
lectures by both instructors In order that students may not be confined
to any one person's view-point, to make it also a popular course, so
that as many students as possible, women as well as men, may ac-
quire an interest In economic and social studies. The change from
five to three hours will also remove the conflict with chemistry, and
give more time for thought and preparation to the student Sociology,
previously running but one semester, is now made a full course,
with the hope that it may remain permanently so. There is no
course, in this department, that I enjoy teaching more, or that
students seem to enjoy more. It may be of interest to note that we
are now using the "Sociology and Social Progress" recently com-
piled with an introduction by Professor Carver, and find It much to
our liking. The Advanced Principles of Economics, which can now be
ofl'ered only in alternate years, I hope to offer every year as soon as
we have a second Instructor.

The demand for "practical" courses is especially marked among
the men. Many of them, intending to enter business, look upon the
department as a sort of technical training school. The demand for
courses in money and banking, trusts, labor problems, taxation, etc..
Is therefore strong. It is a question with me just how far this pre-
dilection of the men should be given way to. The educative value
of these courses, if followed to the exclusion of broader social study
is not great, in my opinion. On the other hand it Is, I suppose, a part
of the function of the modem college to give the student some modi-
cum of equipment to meet the actual concrete world he Is going out
into, and perhaps it is more the function of economics to do this than
any other study, since the bulk of da5i;ime interests are for most peo-
ple economic. So far. I have reasoned with men that they cannot af-
ford to let their college course devolve too much Into a narrow intro-
duction to the specific business they intend to enter. In some cases,
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the neglect of other things. We must, however, no doubt, offer courses
in applied economics, especially in money and banking and taxation —
what some have called, perhaps unfairly, 'fact-courses' in contra-
distinction to 'thought-courses.' I hope we shall be able to find and
maintain a proper balance between the two, and that the department
may answer the requirements of the men without encouraging them
to inordinate specialization.

It is a striking fact that with the exception of three or four
months in one of the Academy courses, Oberlln offers its students
no regular courffc in civics or government International law is given
occasionally, but it Is not especially designed to promote good citizen-
ship. Ck)mparative politics, for half a year, based on Woodrow Wil-
son's 'The State' has been given occasionally. Professor Hall offers
some historical courses In political science; but there is nothing In
the way of a regular, general, and adequate course in government,
which shall make the student acquainted with modern constitutions,
modern party government in Europe and America, — In short such a
course as will give the knowledge of the political life In which we
move that every educated man and woman in a democracy ought to
have. I am giving this year a very modest little course In municipal
government — not because I know much about It, for I do not but be-
cause I believe present conditions demand such a course and that It
can be made to yield not only some preparation for the actual contact
with politics our students will have, but also something from the cul-
tural and ethical ix)int of view. If the course is successful, I shall
be glad to fit myself for It and continue It. I sincerely hope, however,
that we may find some way to offer a general, full-year course in
government

The department cannot do its duty without greatly increased
Library funds. On the seventy-five dollars a year now available, the
current literature cannot be kept up, and there are numerous im-
portant standard works In economics lacking. In sociology the work
is handicapped by lack of recent standard works; the same W true
In less measure of the economic history. Several more economic and
sociological journals should be added and the back files of all brought
up to date. In international law the Library Is so poor that practi-
cally nothing but a straight text-book course can be given. In munici-
pal government my whole allowance could be spent at once and still
leave room for more purchases. In colonial government the College

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has one serviceable reference book — not enough to base a course on !
Sociology, Economics, and Political Science are in reality three dis-
tinct, though, related, fields, each with a literature of its own, and I
question whether it is quite fair to any of them to lump them togeth-
er all under one library appropriation. The U. L. A. Library is
much better in some lines of recent publications than the College
Library, but important books have to be duplicated to be made acces-
sible to the whole class; it creates something of an Invidious group-
distinction to refer U. L. A. members to a reference on their shelves
which others have to go without

It Is generally recognized, I suppose, that the establishment of an
engineering school and a strengthening of the Department of Econom-
ics will do more than anything else outside, perhaps, certain
changes in the rules governing both men and women, to increase the
percentage of men here. Personally I do not share to the full the
general solicitude felt over the relative numbers of men and women ;
it is rather a cause of congratulation that a constantly increasing
number of women, a traditionally conservative class are feeling the
need of the broader horizon a college training gives. I should be sorry
to see Oberlin take any action that might by any stretch of news-
paper or other agency be Interpreted abroad as a departure In any
way from the magnificent record always held on the co-education
question. I shall be very glad to do all In my power to help along
the usefulness of the Department to the whole student body, and in
doing so I am very sure its usefulness to the men will increase pari
passu, and that any extension of the facilities at the disposal of the
Department will In due time show specific result In an increase in the
number of men in College classes. At the same time I should be very
sorry to have It understood that the purpose In increasing the strength
of the Department was primarily to attract men to Oberlin.

For the year 1905-OG nearly three-quarters of the students In my
classes. Including international law, were men (71.4 percent). For
the present semester the percentage Is 64.2, about two-thirds, men.
I should be glad to have more women In my classes, especially in those
which they are now inclined to avoid — economic history, government,
and advanced economic theory.

The need of another instructor is so well recognized and Is perhaps
suggested to such an extent In what I have said above that it is

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unnecessary to say more about It Nevertheless I may point out spe-
cifically that without another teacher we cannot

(a) broaden the three-hour elementary course,

(b) broaden the work of the economic seminar.

(d) give the required number of courses in applied economics,

(e) give some important courses every year which can now be
given only in alternate years.

(f) introduce other desirable alternate courses, such as statis-
tics, economic history of Europe, the ethics of social organization,

(g) organize a sociology club, and perhaps above all

(h) get two points of view instead of one in the department

Philoiophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Theology

Professor S. F. MacLennan reports for the Department of
Philosophy and Psychology, especially emphasizing the need of
more room for the psychological laboratory. The President
heartily seconds this recommendation of Dr. MacLennan. A
single paragraph from the report of Dr. MacLennan is here
given:

I would again call attention to the absolute need of more room
for the conduct of the Psychological Laboratory. As this need has
been steadily overlooked in the many additions which have been made
to the teaching force and other equipment of departments, I have
begun to fear that the character and value of this line of work in
psychology are not quite understood. The laboratory is being intro-
duced generally and an ever more important place is being given to
it in schools of good rank. While a good account is being given, I
hope, of the regular appropriation, still nothing of a lasting charac-
ter can be accomplished without room. At present the department is
confined to one small room In the attic of Peters Hall. A moments
reflection will make it evident that different classes of experiments
can not be carried on In the Fame room, e. g., sound and color work
cannot be done at the same time and in the same place. The result-
ant is that a great deal of your professor's time and energy is used up
in overcoming these difficulties as he best may. It seems scarcely
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foupd In no other department Indeed, did such difficulties exist
elsewhere, it would seem self-evident that they should be rectified Im-
mediately.

The following paragraph may be given from the report of
Professor Edward A. Miller, for the Department of Pedagogy:

The numbers have Increased until it seems that another two-
hour course could be very well added, and I hope that within a year I
may be able to give up the work which I am now doing in History
and devote all of my teaching time to this department. I gave sev-
eral courses during the summer and think that some of the work
done here could be very well offered during the College year.

I hope It may be possible at some time to devise some method
by which at least a portion of the large number of pupils who prepare
to teach here In Oberlin, may get some actual experience In the work
of schools. I have thought that It might be possible at some time to
make some arrangement with the public schools here for such work.
While the CJollege In no way wishes to take up the work of the
Normal School, It Is wise, I believe, to offer actual experleifce In
teaching In real school work, as Is done In departments of education
in a number of Eastern Universities, notably Harvard and Brown.

The following extracts may be given from the report of
Professor G. Frederick Wright, of the chair of The Harmony
of Science atul Revelation:

I have been enabled, during the past year, to carry on the
work of my professorship with gratifying success. In August, 1905,
I set out upon an extended tour to complete the Investigations neces-
sary to be made before publishing the results of the work I was set
to do fourteen years ago upon my appointment to the present chair.
During this tour I visited the most Important points where geology
and history meet during the period of palaeolithic man In Denmark,
Sweden, southern Russia, the Lebanon Mountains, Egypt, Italy,
northern France, and southern England.

I have yet much material to prepare for publication which I
hope, in the course of two or three years, to emljody In a volume on
The Origin and Antiquity of the Human Race, I trust that
the volumes I shall soon publish will amply justify the Trustees in
the liberties which they have granted me In connection with my pro-
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failure to endow the Cleveland Professorship to provide funds, I have,
by vijEforous effort of my own, and through the generous help of per-
sonal friends, been able to continue the work uninterruptedly accord-
ing to the original plan.

The President's own teaching of Philosophy in the College
and Theology in the Seminary has continued essentially as out-
lined in previous reports. The course with the Seniors in the
Theological Seminary is changed from year to year to make
certain that the students are kept in touch with all the great
present-day movements in Theology.

Professor L. F. Miskovsky presents the following encour-
aging report for the Slavic Department:

The stimulating influence of Miss Walworth's gift to the Slavic
Department began at once to be felt in the increased attendance and
broadened curriculum with which the second semester of 1905-06
opened. Applications for admission continued to increase, giving the
Department opportunity to exercise increasingly its discretionary
l)Owers in admitting new students. The year closed with an attend-
ance of five men, and though two were sent out into the active minis-
try, the new year begins with an attendance of eight of whom two
remain from last year. This makes an increase of six new students,
carefully selected from a list of eleven applicants. The young men
are all of good promise and of approved Christian character. Five
of them are Ck)ngregationalists, two Methodists, and one Baptist
This fact also represents a new departure, for while hitherto the
Department confined itself to training men only for the Ck)ngrega-
tional ministry, it is now open to students of all denominations.

In enlarging the curriculum larger use will be made of the
opportunities afforded the Slavic students by the Academy and Col-
lege. The placing of the Department on an independent financial
basis, so that it can pay for all that it gets from the Academy or Col-
lege Departments, has made this very advantageous arrangement
possible. The Slavic students can take more work of a general char-
acter, and spend a longer time in preparation for their life work
than heretofore. Altogether, the outlook for the Department is very
bright, and I am convinced that it has entered upon a new era of
enlarged usefulness.

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The report of Professor Edward Dickinson, of the chair of
the Histary and Criticism of Music, may be appropriately
added to these reports from the teachers in the Theological
and College departments :

In September, 1905, the professor of the history and criticism
of music established a course of lectures for college students, and
this course has become a permanent feature of the college cur-
riculum. Three lectures per week are given throughout the year.
The puri)ose of this course is to furnish those who are not engaged
In the study of practical music a means of increasing their compre-
hension and appreciation of the art. The work of all the represen-
tative modem composers Is critically surveyed; the musical forms
and technical materials are explained ; account is given of the princi-
pal instruments and their resources, the constitution of the orchestra,
etc., the test of good performance, the nature and limits of musical
expression, in a word, all the lesthetic and scientific problems In-
volved in the intelligent appreciation of the art of music. It Is a
course in the art of listening to music in the broadest sense of the
term.

College students have always been admitted to the courses in
the history of music given in the Conservatory. College credits are
given for all these courses. The concerts of the Artist course and
those given by the Musical Union furnish helpful illustrations of the
subjects treated in the lectures.

The occupant of this chair is the only college professor in Amer-
ica who gives his entire time to history and criticism of music.

It is perhaps worth noting that, notwithstanding the high im-
portance assigned to music among the educational advantages of
Oberlin and the remarkable development of its concert system, fully
1,000 students cannot hear the concerts of the Artist course, and a
large number are necessarily shut out from the performances of the
Musical Union. This is due to the limited seating capacity of
Warner concert hall and the churches. This fact, which so restricts
the influence of our musical establishments, gives additional empha-
sis to the demand for a large audience hall. With such a building
used for the Musical Union and the orchestra concerts, musical works
of the highest order could be put within the reach of the whole In-
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reason of the larger income that would be derived from the sale of
seats.

The President has this year asked for reports from all the
teachers in all departments, in order that the College might have
the advantage of every suggestion which any teacher might
care to make. The President is grateful for the considerable
suggestions which have so come to him and which will be of
value in determining future lines of growth and expenditure.
Professor Shaw especially emphasizes the great desirability of
putting the Bible Study work in the Academy, like the similar
study in the College, upon the basis of a two or three hour
course instead of a one hour course. Other special sugges-
tions of various teachers will be borne in mind. It is hoped
that, through the proper agencies, many of them at least may
be followed out in the present and the following years.

Instruction Units

The Secretary's report gives full details upon this point
and there is little need that more should be added here. It has
seemed wise, however, to the President that, instead of allowing
the growth in different departments to be determined so largely
by the election of students, the Faculty should determine, after
a careful survey of the ground, how much work might reason-
ably be offered by a department in comparison with other de-
partments, and then, that that much work and no more should
be so open to the students, the students being thus forced to
elect in other departments beyond this limit. It seems reason-
able, for example, that the work in the Departments of German
and French, in which election has been very large, should be
limited to classes that can be taught by three instructors in
each department, one professor, one associate professor, and
one instructor. This will allow the College to extend the
teaching in other departments where the need is more manifest.

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V. ALUMNI

The report of the Assistant to the President, already given,
indicates, in part at least, the anxiety of the College to main-
tain the closest possible connection with its alumni. Certainly
those to whom the care of the College is especially committed
are most earnest in their desire that its natural first constit-
uency, that of the alumni, should be very free in suggesting any
possible improvement in the work of the College.

Necrology

The Obituary Record of the alumni of Oberlin College for
the year 1905-06 was once more carefully prepared by Mr.
Luther D. Harkness, and published as a bulletin of the College,
issued June 19, 1906. It contains concise sketches of forty
alumni who have died during the college year ; that is, the list
does not contain, it should be noted, those who have died since
the last Commencement. The number of deaths is eight less
than that reported last year. The classes represented in the
list range from 1836 to 1904, and the ages at death from thirty
to ninety-five. Fifteen of those whose deaths are here recorded
reached the age of seventy years or over, and six the age of
eighty years or over. Nine of the list are under the age of forty
years. Reverend Elisha Barber Sherwood was, at the time of
his death, and had been for some years, the senior alumnus.
The oldest alumnus now living is Reverend Samuel Fuller
Porter, of Oberlin, who graduated in 1836. He is the only sur-
viving alumnus of any class graduating before 1839. The full
list of names follows :

CLASS AGE

1850 Bigelow, Jabez 83

1863 Bruce, Ellen Ix)venla 65

1892 Carter, Josephine Barnard Mitchell 35

1896 Cheney, Gertrude Ellen Stiles 30

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CLASS

AGE

1898

Chittenden, Mary Ghamberliu

1865

Clark, Casslus Martin

1865

Clarke, James Wait

1866

Crocker, Delia Martha

1862

Cross, Clara Steele Norton

1852

Dawes, Emellne Warren

1893

Edgerton, Lucy lone

1874

Fischer, Frederick John Thomas

1865

Hall, Russell Thaddeus

1893

Hayson, Walter Bowie

1846

Helsell, Jesse L.

1863

Hutches, Elizabeth A.

1847

Ives, Mary Eastman

1876

Jclliffe, Orion John

1849

Jones, James Monroe

1860

Juchau, George

1861

Kenaston, Carlos Albert

1866

Kinney, Harriet Stanley

1847

Lathrop, Ebenezer

3904

Lemon, Guy Hugh

1887

Lewis, John

1846

McCrea, Colla

1898

Meacham, Margaret Goodwin

1895

Orncs, Susan Lord Currier

1864

Payne, Zeno Corydon

1871

Roberts, Lorin

1850

Robinson, Thomas Hastings

ia36

Sherwood, Elisha Barber

1893

Smith, Edwin Burritt

1861

Spoor, Orange Herbert

1884

Staley, Effle May Cliapman

1894

S warts, Li Hie May Lyons

1858

Teller, Willard

1884

Tenney, Flora Annie Calkins

1846

Van Wagner, James Mott

1888

Webster, Charles Linsley

It is impossible for one to run over this list, with any
knowledge of those whose names are here recorded, without

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recognizing the large service that has been rendered through
these alumni to the work of the world.

The Living EndounnetU Union

The President rejoices greatly in the gains made in this
movement during the year just closed. The splendid achieve-
ments in this line made by the alumni of Yale University indi-
cate something of the possibilities for the College in this whole
plan, and the President wishes to express once more his earnest
conviction of the great value of the gifts received by the College
through the Living Endowment Union.

Closer Relations

The gains that have been made in bringing about closer
relations between the College and the alumni in recent years
must be clear to all. The most noticeable movement in this di-
rection of the past year is the work of the Bureau of Appoint-
ments, which is in charge of the Secretary to the President,
Mr. W. F. Bohn, under an advisory committee of which
Professor Miller is chairman. Mr. Bohn submits the following
report :

In submitting for the first time a report of the work done by
the Bureau of Appointments, the Secretary feels that the work en-
tailed by the Bureau and the limited amount of money expended
have l)een amply justified In the results accomplished.

An effort has been made, In the first place, to perfect the reg-
istration of alumni desiring emi)loyment or change of position and
especially to collect such data in regard to possible candidates for em-
ployment as will enable the college to answer inquiries from pros-
pective employers intelligently and to recommend Its graduates with
assurance. This should be more effectually and easily accomplished
in the future through the President's *Senior Record' — information
blanks filled out during the student's last year in college, containing
data in regard to specialties, scholarship, and personal opinions of
deans, teachers, and officers.

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During the year circulars of information in regard to the
Bureau of Api)ointnient8 and letters of inquiry in regard to vacan-
cies were sent out to a selected list of schools and colleges to which
a gratifying number of responses were received. In addition to the
alumni who were aided in securing appointments a large proportion
of those graduates of last year who desired to teach were assisted
directly or indirectly by the Bureau or members of the faculty In
securing the positions they now occupy. Members of the class of
1906 are occupying responsible positions in Grammar and High
Schools and more Important places In Academies, Normal Schools,
and Colleges, and one received an appointment as fellow In Tulane
University, through information supplied by the Bureau.

Especial mention should be made of the marked success of
Director Morrison, and Drs. Hanna and Leonard in placing the
graduates of their respective departments. The Secretary feels that
a large gain would be made if It were possible in some way to central-
ize all the work done for the graduates by some method of reporting
information at least, to the Bureau whenever graduates are assisted
to positions and also perhaps by directing students to apply to the
Bureau of Appointments for recommendations from special depart-
ments of work Allowing the Bureau to make the request for recom-
mendations and keep a record of information gained In this way.

The Bureau has a legitimate place In the work of establishing
and maintaining cordial and helpful relations between the alumni of
the college and their alma mater. In first of all creating In the minds
of its graduates a strong Impression that the college Is looking after
their interests not only Immediately upon graduation but wherever
an opportunity of service offers. In the second place, the Bureau
feels that the college can scarcely find a better way for strengthening
its hold on its natural constituency in secondary schools than by
placing efficient graduates In teaching positions of responsibility.

In connection with the suggestion to be made from other sources
in regard to the work of an academy canvasser, permit me to add
that it would be of considerable indirect benefit to the work of the
Bureau of Appointments, if such a man were In the field, who In
connection with his particular work for the Academy could not only
secure Information In regard to the general situation in Ohio and ad-
joining States, but be of considerable direct assistance In placing
graduates In desirable positions.

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A graduate who has been helped to a remunerative position by
the Bureau of Appointments without the customary charge made by
an ordinary Teachers* Agency, will, in a large mapority of cases, feel
a direct obligation to make some return to his college, through the
Living Endowment Union, or other channel.

The possibilities of the Bureau are large if systematically de-
veloped, and it is the Judgment of the Secretary that this should be
done not only on account of the direct benefits accruing to the col-
lege, but to preclude the establishment of any other Teachers* Agency
in Oberlin, not under ofl!icial supervision.

In co-operation with Mr. Williams, the Assistant to the President,
it ought to be possible to make the Bureau increasingly of real value
to all those leaving Oberlin for other employment or to continue their
education, by furnishing letters of introduction and reconunendatlon
based on the data on file with the Bureau so that it should more
and more be true that every student going away from Oberlin would
feel bound by the closest ties to the Institution from which he has
gone.

The alumni will be glad to know that it is the plan to bring
out, in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the
College in 1908, a general catalogue of all students who have
ever attended Oberlin College. In 1910 there will probably
be issued an alumni record, giving a completer account of the
facts concerning the graduates of the College than the ordinary
Quinquennial can give.

VI. ADVISORY COMMITTEES

The entire list of the Advisory Committees is again pub-
lished, with a list of the trustees and the trustee committees, as
an important part of the records of the year. The work of
these committees, as the name implies, is often best accom-
plished by personal suggestions to teachers in the departments
concerned, and the College recognizes gratefully all the help
that has been thus rendered. A number of these committees have
done important service in bringing valuable changes to pass,

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and more work of the same kind is confidently to be looked for
in the future. There seems to be no reason why the member-
ship of the committees, considering the comparatively short
time of their active service, should not still remain unchanged,
and the President, therefore, recommends that the members of
the several committees whose term expires with January 1, 1907,
continue their service for another term of three years. The va-
cancy in the chairmanship of the Committee on Ancient Lan-
guages caused by the death of Dr. Judson Smith of the Board
of Trustees, should be filled at this meeting of the Board.

VII. STUDENTS

Attendance

The attendance of the students has been quite fully treated
in the Secretary's report and in the President's comments upon
that report. In spite of the very large present enrolment in the
institution as a whole, the students are so scattered among the
different departments and the different deans as not to make,
in general, the number assigned to any one officer abnormally
large. It seems entirely possible to have wise supervision even
with the present large numbers.

Breadth of Constituency

The Secretary's figures make it plain that the breadth
of constituency, for which Oberlin has always been so remark-
able, is fully maintained. In a sense true of very few col-
leges, it remains thoroughly national.

Health

The general health of the students during the year 1905-06
has been, on the whole, remarkably good. There have been
few cases of serious illness, though there have been four deaths
noted in the reports of the Dean of College Men and the Dean

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of College Women. No one of the deaths was due in any de-
gree to conditions prevailing at Oberlin. At the same time
it should be remembered that the number of students suffer-
ing from minor contagious diseases, like measles and mumps,
is always larger than it ought to be, and larger than it would
need to be if there were even a very modest provision for a
college infirmary. The need of some such provision is very
great, and if the College cannot meet it alone it would seem
very desirable that the present movement for a town hospital
should be carried out.

Athletics

The following report from the Chairman of the Advisory
Board for Athletics, Dr. Charles E. St. John, may be submitted
in lieu of any further discussion of this point :

The past year was a fruitful one as far as united action by au-
thorities In control of athletics In colleges Is concerned. It was felt
on all sides that the game of football needed some radical reform, if
It was to remain a college sport. However much the rules of the
game of football needed reform, it was felt that the conditions that
obtained widely in intercollegiate athletics needed reform much more.
In Ohio this was accomplished under the guidance of the Ohio Ath-
letic Conference, of which Oberlin College is a member. At present
this conference includes six institutions. Upon its invitation a meet-
ing of the Faculty Committees on athletics of thirteen other colleges
was held In Columbus at the time of the Conference of Presidents
and Deans. By an arrangement between the two conferences, a large
part of the program of the meeting of Presidents and Deans was
given to the question of Intercollegiate Athletics. At their meetings
the revised eligibility rules of the Ohio Athletic Conference were
recommended to the Ohio Colleges. These have been formally adopt-
ed by the following Institutions: Case School of Applied Sciences,
Denlson University, Heidelberg University, Hiram College, Kenyon
College, Miami University, Oberlin College, Ohio State University,
Ohio Wesley an University, Western Reserve University, Wooster
University.

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The Important changes in the regulations are the limitation of
participation in intercollegiate athletics to undergraduate students,
the debarring of Freshman and all other students during their first
year of residence. The effect of debarring Freshmen was seen at once
in the lessening of the efforts put forth to influence high school Sen-
iors in the selection of their college. This rule obtains west of Ohio
and in the extreme east also, but a group of institutions in the mid-
dle east has not yet put such a rule in force and the result has been
that some athletic graduates of western high schools chose these par-
ticular institutions. The undergraduate rule removes preparatory
students from the list of eligible candidates for Intercollegiate games
and, in great measure also, students in professional schools. At Ober-
lin this has brought about a separation of academy and college ath-
letics, which has long been a desirable result on account of the gain
to the Academy in allowing it to use its best men and in aiding in
the building of an esprit de corps among academy students and de-
veloping a life of its own. On the college side, it dignifies all its
athletic relations with other institutions.

United action was also had on the following more general reg-
ulations: the alK)lition of pre-season training and the limiting of
Freshman teams to contests with other teams of their own institu-
tions.

Four other recommendations are still under consideration; they
are the abolition of the training table, the limitation of the number
of football games, the closing of the football season on the Saturday
preceding Thanksgiving, and the vexing question of the professional
coach.

At Oberlin a marked advance has been made by the appointment
of C. W. Savage as Director of Athletics and Associate Professor of
Physical Training. This centralizes the responsibility for athletics in
the institution by giving to him the same control over athletic affairs
as the head of a department has over the work of his department,
and the same responsibility for the work of his assistants, I believe
we are on the way to a solution of this important but somewhat trj--
ing question — the management of athletics.

Discipline

The reports from the Deans of Men and of Women, and
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little formal discipline has been required during the year, and
they imply as well, as noted last year, the steady formation of
closer personal relations between students and officers, and a
consequent diminishing amount of discipline at arm*s length.
A Student Senate for the men of the institution has already been
formed and gives promise of becoming a real help. The change
in the regulations requiring church attendance affects the
Theological and College Departments and the Conservatory of
Music, and the President may be allowed to transfer to this
report his statement of the reasons for this change as already
given in the Alumni Magazine.

The alumni may not be uninterested in a statement of the con-
siderations that moved the faculty to revolie the rule requiring church
attendance except in the case of Academy students. The Academy
faculty propose to deal with the matter in a way somewhat in line
with the old reporting system. For the rest of the departments
the faculty voted to revoke the rule. I am glad to say
to the alumni what I said to the students at the time the announce-
ment of the change was made. The action taken certainly does not
mean any change of conviction on the part of the faculty as to the
value of church attendance or as to the preeminent value of the
regular morning service. Oberlin College does not Intend to be mis-
taken as to its avowedly, aggressively. Christian attitude. The Col-
lege believes that the Christian ideals are the highest the world has
or can have, and, therefore, it can do no other than stand for them.
As its catalogue steadily states, the College stands for truth, for char-
acter, for Christ, for the church — for the church as the one great
world organization for ideal ends ; and the faculty hope that if the
setting aside of the rule makes any change at all it will make the
church service mean more rather than less. The reasons that have
weighed with the faculty in revoking the requirement are these:
Since the abolition of the self-reporting system — which was probably
inevitable, all things considered — the rule requiring church attend-
ance has been a regulation without any natural check upon its ob-
servance, unless the faculty were willing to monitor church attend-
ance or undertake a large amount of espionage of boarding houses.
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College, and the faculty were convinced that neither of them would be
justified or desirable. They believed that while it was quite true that
no careful check could be kept upon the observance of the rule with-
out monitoring, that nevertheless nothing would do more than such
monitoring to make the church service — not in itself a college exer-
cise— unpopular. This situation of having a regulation without any
natural check, the faculty did not wish should longer continue, since
they believed that in itself it tended to break down respect for other
regulations, and that under the circumstances, the rule was not ac-
complishing much in the direction of Its own end.

But more important than this administrative reason was the con-
viction that the ultimate end of all training Is to bring people to a
point where they will take on of their own will, what has been re-
quired, as desirable and right; and that wherever the volimtary can
be safely substituted for the required It Is a clear moral gain. The
faculty believed that that point had been reached In this case and
for the students of the departments concerned. The great majority of
these students come to us from Christian homes, of Christian Ideals,
and have adopted for themselves these Christian ideals and stand-
ards. The extent and variety of their own voluntary interests and
work in religious lines, as shown by the varied activities of the
Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, was further
evidence of a warm voluntary religious interest.

The faculty believed, therefore, that the students could be trust-
ed to make good use of full liberty at this point. They had believed
further that Oberlin had moral and spiritual atmosphere and forces
In which we ought to be able to put some real trust without enact-
ment; and upon the presence of these forces and Ideals In the stu-
dents and In themselves they now confidently rely in this matter.

If I may express my own conviction It Is that the resulting situ-
ation will be really more healthful and more satisfactory. There will
probably be some slight shifting of emphasis as to particular meet-
ings In consequence, but I do not expect any diminution of genuine
religious Interest and Influence ; and I believe that by their own mani-
festly strong Interest in religious Hues the students had fairly proved
their right to this degree of liberty.

The reasons for the change in the regulation concerning
walking in the early evening were given in the report of the
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to a discussion of the rule forbidding the use of tobacco by the
students, and, in order that the position of the President upon
this regulation may be clearly understood by all the alumni
and friends of the College, the article prepared for the Alumni
Magazine upon this point also is here presented :

The position taken by the College in this regulation is certainly
not due to a wholesale denunciation of all users of tobacco. Too
many honored men are included in such a list to make such an atti-
tude for a moment possible. That position is rather due to what I
suppose is the undoubted fact, that the young are certainly better
without it.

The reasons that I suppose may be urged as Justifying both the
adoption and the maintenance of the Tobacco Rule, so far as it con-
cerns men under twenty-five, are partly considerations of health,
partly considerations of Intellectual development, and partly moral
considerations. Upon all these points both expert authority and sta-
tistical evidence are pretty decisive. These various considerations I
attempted to put as clearly and strongly before the student body as
I could, quoting especially President Hyde of Bowdoln College in his
discussion of Greek Qualities in the College Man:

"Moderate drinking and smoking are the two forms in which the
quest for abnormal or non-functional sensation is still in vogue. All
the other forms of intemperance cited have so far received the stigma
of social disapproval that their gradual descent through lower and
lower strata of society to final disuse Is merely a question of time.
At all events, the young man who would attune his life to the highest
wisdom, and control it by the firmest temperance, will not permit him-
self to form the habit of smoking before he has attained his full
physical and mental stature, and has proved his ability with his own
hand or brain to earn for himself whatever necessities and comforts
of life he believes to be more fundamental and important than the
inhalation and exhalation of smoke."

I further suggested that it was not a pleasant thing to feel that
we had to connect this habit of smoking, as a characteristic habit,
with that very small and especially favored element of our population,
made up of our college men ; that the situation in the Eastern colleges
clearly showed that the practice tended to become tyrannical, as con-
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were often made to feel that they were not coming up to what was
expected of them, or were proving quite unsocial If they did not
share In the smoking habit ; and that a habit, against which so clear-
sighted a nation as Japan had legislated, to the extent of forbidding
the use of tobacco by any person under the age of twenty, was a
habit that we might well regret to see so firmly fastened upon our
college men.

I urged, therefore, that, since we might be sure that there were
such strong considerations against the habit — at least for all in the
period of growth — and since, in the line of President Hyde's argu-
ment, the trend of the ages was certainly against these forms of
non-functional sensation, we might well believe that there were need
and opportunity for a strong college to stand squarely and firmly
against the tobacco habit, and that the maintenance of our rule
against tobacco was a tradition well worth preserving.

At the same time, I tried to deal frankly and honestly with the
students In this discussion of the regulation ; and so recognized fully,
as I think one must, that in this question of the tobacco rule it Is en-
tirely possible that there should be a good deal of violation that would
not be known to the authorities (though the Dean has gone over
the matter with every man entering College this year) ; and that,
therefore. If there were to be a proper spirit through the Ck)]lege with
reference to that regulation, much depended upon the attitude of the
students themselves. To them, accordingly, I appealed to throw the
whole force, not only of their personal example but of their personal
influence. In favor of an honest maintenance of the regulation.

As evidence of the fact that this judgment of the tobacco habit
was not a whim of a few of us here, I cited not only medical and
philosophical authority, but also the fact that such practical men of
wealth as several of our recent donors had, according to their own tes-
timony, been not a little Influenced by the presence of our rule against
tobacco. I did not, of course, say that the donors had threatened to
withdraw their contributions, for this they could not do. I quoted
their opinion as valuable evidence from practical men.

It will be seen, thus, that I had no thought of simply leaving
the fate of the regulation in the hands of the students, as though the
Faculty had no convictions or responsibilities of their own; nor, on
the other hand, did I think of making so wild a statement as that
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there was not a rule against the use of tobacco. That statement
would have been at once contradicted by the simple fact that I had
more than once seriously considered accepting the presidency of such
Institutions; and, moreover, such a statement could not be made by
any man who realized that the f)rinciple of temperance was one
thing, that the regulations by which it might be attempted to main-
tain that principle were quite another, and that no man could wisely
pledge himself, under any circumstances, to an absolutely fixed policy
in the matter of regulations. At the same time, I should personally
feel exceedingly sorry, if we were forced to abandon the rule; but
we must not have an essentially false situation in the matter.

My hope and belief are that the discussion has not been in yain,
in calling the attention of the students to the seriousness of the issue
at stake, and in enlisting their intelligent and hearty cooperation in
the maintenance of the regulation. That sentiment and cooperation
of the students we certainly must have if the rule is to count as it
ought to count

The President trusts that there will be no doubt on the
part of the alumni or friends of the College that it is his strong
conviction that Oberlin must continue to aim at college ideals
above the average, and not be satisfied to sink back into an at-
titude of indifference as to the moral or religious life of the
student body. None of the changes made are intended to in-
dicate any lack of concern in this matter. It is rather hoped
that they may tend to bring out a little more completely the
initiative of the students themselves and to secure a completer
cooperation upon their part, with the Faculty. That end, if
it can be attained, it must be recognized, is a distinct moral
gain, a far greater g^in than would be achieved by even the
strictest conceivable discipline without the students' initiative
and cooperation. It must not be forgotten that it is one
thing to get things done; it is another thing to secure that
they should be done with a clear moral attitude on the part
of the doer. The President wonders if the friends of the
College quite recognize how much in the line of moral restraint

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and discipline the College is trying to accomplish. It stands,
for example, for abstinence from the use of liquor and tobac-
co on the part of all its students, against promiscuous dancing,
against secret fraternities, against late hours for social func-
tions, and, in general, in favor of the pervasion of the entire
College by the highest Christian spirit. It is much if these
ends can be accomplished, and the spirit of close sympathy and
thorough respect be maintained on the part of the students.

Reference may be made under this head, discipline, to
the law passed by the last Ohio Legislature, forWdding all
hazing. This law ought to help all the colleges of the State in
maintaining a proper standard as to students' treatment of one
another.

Scholarship

The Committee on Failure in Scholarship, the Advisory
Officer, and his helpers in the Faculty, have cooperated with
the teachers to make certain that the standard of scholarship
should be maintained, and there seems no reason to doubt that
that result has been fully reached in the past year.

Graduate Scholarships

The list of students holding graduate scholarships for the
year upon which we have just entered is as follows :

Miss Lois D. Walljer — German and Romance Languages.
Miss Rose Rudin — Latin and Classical Archseology.
Alfred P. Lothrop — Cliemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology.
Miss Anna Elizabeth Gilbert— English.

The graduate scholars in most cases, as hitherto, in ad-
dition to their study, are rendering some valuable assistance to
the heads of the departments in which they are studying.

• Social Life
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occurred in the year covered by this report, but it is only fair
to say that the students are getting an experience on this side of
their life that is in itself needed and desirable, and that will help
them to better meet the responsibilities which lie ahead of them
in life. It may sometimes seem to those who look on from
without that too much attention is given to this side of col-
lege life, but the very reasonable hours observed in all social
affairs in which both men and women are involved, and, in
general, in all social functions, certainly indicate that the Col-
lege is to be congratulated rather upon the comparative re-
straint of the social life of its students.

Religious Life

Last year's report perhaps sufficiently indicates the breadth
of the work undertaken by the College on this side. The Col-
lege has no thought of surrendering this work simply to the
student organizations, and yet it is most encouraging that both
the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tions are doing such effective service in promoting the higher
life of the College. The secretaryship of the Young Men's
Christian Association was successfully carried last year by Mr.
R. O. Bartholomew, of the class of 1905, and the secretaryship
of the Young Women's Christian Association by Miss Jean
James. Miss James resigned her secretaryship to enter upon
foreign missionary service, and Miss L. J. Hopkins, of the
class of 190(), was elected in her stead.

The report of the secretary of the Young Men's Christian
Association merits the careful consideration of the friends of
the college because of the increasing usefulness of that Associa-
tion and its present pressing needs :

The Young Men's Christian Association occupies a strategic
position in our college life, since it Is the religious work among, for,
and by the men, or in other words, It is the expression of what the

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men of Oberlin consider *The Best" There are fourteen separate
departments of work ; twelve of which are conducted among students,
and the entire work being executed by a committee force of about
two hundred men.

The religious meetings of the past year were aimed to educate
the college men to the broadest practical interpretation and applica-
tion of Christianity. The average attendance at the thirty-five weekly
meetings was two hundred and twenty-three; at eighteen of these
meetings outside speakers presented topics along social-service lines.

Three hundred and twenty-two men were enrolled in Bible classes
and got together once a week to discuss the lesson as well as to
clear up practical difficulties in their lives.

$1,030.75 was raised for the support of our college representative
in Shansi, China. The number of men in the volunteer band was in-
creased from twenty-eight to thirty-nine.

Membership in the association comprised about four-fifths of all
men in the institution, while 90% of the men were active members.

Two hundred and fifty helpful calls were made upon the sick,
discouraged, or "flunkers," and about sixty-five men indicated their
intention of t)ecoming Christians, in public meetings.

The association is the sole organizer and unifying agency of
social life among the men. Four large "stags" were held during the
year, at which a greater percent of the men were present. About
sixty-five men daily frequent the reading room.

The association assisted about three hundred men to rooming
places and one hundred and twenty-five to boarding places, during
the past year. It secured $5,978.56 of work for needy students during
the past year. At present there is more work than there are men
to do it

Seventy-five men attended conferences with associations of other
institutions.

The association raised and expended $1,558.91, of which $758.91
was for committee appropriations.

The growth of the association has been along the lines of more
men identifying themselves with association work ; of greater service
rendered to fellow-students, and a broader and more practical inter-
pietation of Christianity. Our association is suffering every day
because of its lack of a suitable building in which to center its activ-
ities. At present our work is scattered about the College; two small
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for its office ; its social functions are held in Peters Hall, the Sunday
Meeting is held in the Second Church, while the Bible classes meet
wherever they can find a place, and there is not a single place for the
cabinet or a committee to get together which may not conflict with
some college actiyity. There is not a single spot in our college build-
ings where oyer five men can get together at once and feel that it is
a distinctive association headquarters, yet we have one of the eight
largest students' associations of North America. Besides the great
lack of unity which we must continually face in our association
work — due to lack of a building — there Is manifest the lack of a broad
and sympathetic point of view among the men which a building, as a
great social mixing machine, would bring about

The association is the largest and most important of all student
enterprises, but, as it is at present, many people think of it only as an
employment bureau, a Sunday meeting, or some one phase of its work,
and therefore it cannot claim and demand the rightful prestige
among other college activities that it would were they all centralized
in one building. Our present cramped quarters give us dwarfed re-
sults ; the same amount of energy and money expended with a building
would double the results.

"The Oberlin association is the leading student association of
Ohio and the state officers look to it for suggestions for their work,"
said one of the state secretaries last June. Such are the results as
leaders in association work see them, yet we are working upon a
cramped basis, and, although the eighth association in size in North
America, there are twenty-eight other associations who spend more
money in their work than do we. The leaders in our association ac-
tivities are the leaders in our college life, and if we had a building
where all men of the institution were thrown with these all-round
men the contagion of character for good which would result would
simply be incalculably great

On account of the absence of Miss James, the secretary for
last year of the Young Women's Christian Association, the
report for the year is given by the present secretary, Miss
Hopkins :

In reporting the work of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
ciation, I shall give, first, a review of the work of the official year
which closed March 1, 1906; second, an account of what has been
done since that time, with some plans and suggestions for the future.

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The Fall Campaign Committee wrote personal letters to pros-
pective students, met trains at the opening of the fall term, and
assisted new students in the College, Academy and Conservatory on
registration days. The paid membership to March 1, 1906, was 362,
including Alumnae members who had paid at that date. The num-
ber of pledged members for the school year was 475, an increase of
170 over the previous year.

Financially, the Association was a splendid success. The great
achievements In this line were the Bazaar held at Peters Hall in
December, which cleared $457.70, and the Taft lecture, which added
$62.10 to our resources. The systematic giving pledges were $175.00,
of which $150.00 were collected, $1,499.78 were paid Into the treasury
during the year and there was a surplus of $236.26 at the close. This
was the first year that the General Secretary was employed on full
time, with a salary of $600. A piano was purchased for use In the
Sunday evening meetings.

Meetings were held Sunday evenings at Sturges Hall or with the
Y. M. C. A. in the Second Church, when outside speakers were present.
We observed the World's Week of Prayer In November, and had
special devotional meetings during that week. The average attend-
ance at the Sunday evening service was 200.

The courses in Bible study offered were 15 and the enrolment
275. This includes those enrolled in Training class groups. All the
girls in the Institution were canvassed after the Bible Study rally,
and a record of the attendance at the classes was kept during the
year. Six courses were offered in Mission Study, with an enrolment
of 112. Twenty-four girls were enrolled in the Volunteer Band. We
packed and sent two boxes — one of cloth for jackets for the girls in
Mrs. Brown's school in Ceylon, and one of baby clothes for the
Highlanders of Kentucky. These were valued at $7.00 and $25.00 re-
spectively. We paid $10.00 toward Mrs. Brown's support, and were
contributors to the Shansi fund — also aiding in its collection.

Socials for the Association girls and their friends were held
from time to time, beginning with the opening reception on the first
Saturday of the fall term. This committee managed the Bazaar
group. Socials were held among the Conservatory girls, to help in
gaining their Interest in Association work. Fourteen girls attended
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vention ; and we paid the railway expenses of one delegate to Nash-
ville. We also paid part of the expenses of a Faculty delegate to the
Chicago National (Convention.

Prom September, 1905, to March, 1906, the committee In charge
of the employment bureau for the young women supplied 24 girls
with work, the cash value of which for that time was $1,000.00.

The Extension Committee had charge of the work for the girls
at the Centennial Building, and carried on two clubs, which meet
weekly. The visiting and philanthropic committee called on the sick
and aged poor people and distributed clothing and toys at Christmas
time.

Since March 1, 1906, the work has been systematized more than
ever before, and is this year growing in all lines. As the Association
is on a good financial basis, we can bend our energies in other direc-
tions. The interest felt among all the girls in the institution is in-
creased.

The work of extension is organized and well under way. There
are several suggestions and plans which must be considered. In the
first place, we shall soon outgrow our place of meeting on Sunday
evenings. The average attendance since school opened this "fall has
been 287. If Sturges Hall holds but a few over 300, how much more
can we grow? Our membership will be 500, or over, by the end of tho
year. It seems almost necessary for the growth of Bible Study work
in both Associations that a Curriculum Normal Course be offered, in
which leaders of these classes can be trained.

We are glad to see that the Conservatory girls are uniting In
classes, according to the number of years they have studied here.
That means a partial solution of our problem of getting hold of the
Conservatory girls. A nucleus of a few Association girls can do a
great deal In these groups.

Since the death of our Treasurer, Mary A. Stevens, her mother
has given to the Association, to be used in some permanent way
"where it will help most" one hundred dollars and the accumulated
interest, amounting in all to one hundred and fifteen or twenty dollars.
The Cabinet has not yet decided what shall be done with this money.

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VIII. RELATIONS TO OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Secondary Schools
The report of the Secretary calls special attention to two
or three ways in which the College is endeavoring to keep in
close touch with the secondary schools, and especially with
those from which students are already coming to the College.

Other Colleges
The College maintains its connection with the North
Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and its
part in the so-called "Conference of Colleges of the In-
terior." Various members of the Faculty have had share
in different educational gatherings. At a preliminary meet-
ing called in connection with the North Central Association
for the formation of an association of the presidents of the
colleges connected with the North Central Association, the
President was elected as presiding officer for the ensuing year.
The first meeting of this new association will be held the pres-
ent ye^r. It is hoped, as was indicated in the last report, that
the problems of the colleges as such may thus secure a kind of
separate consideration plainly desirable, and the important
place of the college in the national life be made more clear.

Professional and Technical Schools
No special change has occurred during the year in the re-
lation of the College to these schools. It is plain enough that
under the present conditions, the advantage, so far as shorten-
ing courses is concerned, lies with students of colleges con-
nected with universities. It is not so clear that the final edu-
cational advantage lies there. The President and the Faculty
of Oberlin have been clear that they could not wisely surrender
students, who expected to bear the Oberlin degree, for their
senior year to professional schools.

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IX. OUTSIDE INFLUENCE

College Publications

The list of publications made directly by the College is
given in the report of the Secretary, and has already been com-
mented on by the President.

The students' paper, the Oberlin Review, and the town
papers, certainly have seldom done better service for the Col-
lege than they are now rendering.

Attention should also be called to two important historical
articles which have appeared during the year: one by Rev.
Theodore F. Munger, D. D., upon Rev. John Keep, the first
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College, under the
title, An Old-time Hero, published in the Congregationalist
of September 22, 1906 ; the other, by Eugene F. Atwood, on
The Intimate Life-Story of Philo Penfield Stewart, one of the
two founders of Oberlin, published in The Connecticut Maga-
zine, Volume X, No, j.

The main publications of the Faculty for the year include :
Scientific Confirmations of Old Testannent History, by Pro-
fessor George Frederick Wright; a book of consolation, en-
titled. Where is Charlie? by Professor Albert H. Currier; a
volume of out-door sketches, entitled Around an Old Home-
stead, by Mr. Paul Griswold Huston ; a text-book for second
year German by Professor W. G. Mosher, entitled, Willkom-
men in Deutschlajvd; and the President's volume on the funda-
mental Christian truths, entitled. Letters to Sunday School
Teachers, Professor Albert Temple Swing's Life of Presi-
dent Fairchild will be issued probably in February. Mention
may be made also of two important books by Mrs. Jewett, upon
personal and public hygiene, issued under the titles Good
Health and Town and City,

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Besides these volumes, reference should be made especially
to Professor Fullerton's noteworthy articles in the Bibliotheca
Sacra on the ** Invasion of Sennacherib/' and ** Luther's Doc-
trine and Criticism of Scripture " ; to Professor Wright's
articles in the Nation and Records of the Past; to Dr. Leonard's
articles on " The History of Physical Training/' in the Ameri-
can Physical Education Review and in Mind and Body; to
Professor Lynds Jones' articles in The Wilson Bulletin on
*The Drumming of the Ruffled Grouse/' and "A Contribution
to the Life History of Common and Roseate Terns " ; to Pro-
fessor Cole's articles on **Quintilian's Quotations from the
Latin Poets" in the Classical Rcinew; to Instructor Branson's
articles in the Journal of Geology on "Amphibians from
Permean and Triassic North America/' and "Fish Remains
from the Salem Limestone of Indiana" in The Annual
Report of the State Geological Sun*ey of Indiana, In ad-
dition to these articles, bcok reviews of importance have been
contributed to various publications by Professors Cole, Wight-
man, MacLennan, Cowdery, Fullerton and other members of
the Faculty.

A number of musical contributions have been made by
members of the Conservatory Faculty, including the following
works : By Professor George W. Andrews, two organ sonatas
(one especially for the National Meeting of the American Mis-
sionary Association, entitled Sonata Eroica) ; a suite (fourteen
pieces) entitled Wedding Music, and a Cantabile in B Major;
by Margaret Jones Adams, three songs — Dreams, Indian Sum-
mer, Shadows, which will be published soon.

Lectures and Concerts

In addition to the recitals given by members of the gradu-
ating class of the Conservatory, the following lectures, concerts,
and entertainments have been given during the year under the

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auspices of the College or of the various organizations con-
nected with it :

October 9 — Professor G. W. Andrews. Organ Recital.

October 10 — Miss Augusta Cottlow. Piano Recital.

October 24 — Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth. "Prison Reform."

October 25 — Madame Louise Homer. Vocal Recital.

October 27— Miss Jane Add^ms. "Social Settlement Work."

November 6 — Mrs. S. C. Ford and Mr. Arthur Foote. Vocal and
Piano Recital.

November 7 — Jack London. **The Socialistic Revolution."

November 14 — Mr. Jean Gerardy. Violoncello Recital.

November 21 — Miss Caroline Harter. Violin Recital.

November 27 — Professor G. W. Andrews. Organ Recital.

November 28 — Jerome K. Jerome and Charles B. Loomls. Read-
ings from their own works.

December 5 — ^The Oberlln Musical Union. Oratorio, **The Mes-
siah." Handel

December 6— The Oberlln Musical Union. Oratorio, **l'he Beat-
itudes." Cesar Franck,

December 7 — ^The Cincinnati Orchestra. Orchestra Concert.
Matinee.

Deceml)er 12 — Henry Watterson. "Abraham Lincoln."

December 13 — William Poel. "Shakespeare's Playhouse."

December 14 — Hon. Samuel P. Orth. "Aaron Burr."

December 15 — M. Julien Tlersot "Popular Songs of France."

January 6 — Mr. Leland Powers. "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Reading.

January 9 — Mrs. Kirkby Lunn. Vocal Recital.

January 11 — Dr. Richard Moulton. Reading from the Book
of Job.

January 13 — Professor Kirke Lionel Cowdery. **The Cathedral
of Chartes."

January 16 — The Kneisel String Quartet. Quartet Concert
Matinee.

January 16 — Mr. Douglas Hyde. "Problems of Folk Lore."

January 20 — Mr. Lorado Taft "A Glimpse of a Sculptor's
Studio."

January 21-27 — Week of Prayer. Addresses by Dr. S. M. Zwemer
and Rev. Robert Gailey.

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January 22 — Professor Qeorge Whitefleld Andrews. Organ Re-
cital.

February 7— The Pittsburg Orchestra. Orchestra Concert.
Matinee.

February 8— Dr. Dudley P. Allen. •*To be fed with the Crumbs
that fall from the rich man's table."

February 13 — Mr. Henri Marteau and M. Goellner. VIoliu and
Piand Recital.

February 20 — Mr. Samuel Gompers. 'Toilers Organized."

February 21-March 21— Professor G. F. Wright "Glacial
Geology." Seven Lectures.

February 22— Dr. Dan F. Bradley. **The Radicalism of Wash-
ington."

February 23— Ben Greet Woodland Players. '^Twelfth Night"

March 3— Professor John R. Wightman. "The Alhambra."

March 6— Mr. Ellison Van Hoose. Vocal Recital.

March 8 — President Henry Churchill King. "Central Importance
of Will and Action."

March ^—Professor Paul Shorey. **The Pace That Killed
Athens."

March 12 — Professor George Whitefleld Andrews. Organ Recital.

March 13 — President Woodrow Wilson. "What Does It Mean
to be an American?"

March 20— The Oberlin College Glee Club. Concert

March 21 — Professor Kirke L. Cowdery. "Various Points of
Interest In Paris."

March 24 — Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, Mrs. Dolmetsch, and Miss
Kathleen Salmon. Music of the Olden Time played upon insinimentfl
for which it was written.

March 27 to April 6— The Art Exhibition.

March 27 — Professor Edward Dickinson. "The Appreciation of
Pictures."

March 28 — Professor Charles Nelson Cole. "Roman Triumphal
Arches."

March 29 — Dr. Dudley P. Allen. Engravings and Etchings.

March 30 — Professor A. A. F. Johnston. "Velasquez."

March 31 — Professor H. N. Fowler. "Excavations in Crete and
Their Results."

April 2 — Professor Charles Beebe Martin. "The Sarcophagi from
Sldon."

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April 3— Miss Mary Monroe. "Hildesheijm."

April 4 — Professor S. B. Platner. "Recent Excavations In the
Roman Forum."

April 5. Professor F. O. Grover. "Japanese Wood Engraving."

April 5— Professor Azarlah S. Root **Tlie History of Wood
Engraving."

April 6 — Professor Charles H. A. Wager. "Saint Francis of
Assist and His Relation to Art"

April 9— Dr. E. J. Banks. "Arabia."

April 10 — Members of the Conservatory Faculty. Concert

April 11— Dr. E. J. Banks. "Arabia."

April 12— Dr. G. A. Vincent 'The Larger Selfishness."

April 10 — Professor George Whitefield Andrews. Organ Recital.

April 17 — Mr. Hans Kronold, Professor William K. Breckenridge,
Miss Caroline Harter. *Cello, Piano, and Violin Recital.

April 24— Signor Gherardi. Vocal Recital.

May 4 — Northern Oratorical League. Oratorical Contest.

May 0 — Professor Edward Increase Bosworth. Baccalaureate
Sermon. Theological Seminary. "The Gospel of Forgiveness."

May 9 — Mrs. Margaretha Wunderle, Mr. Wunderle, and Mr. Bay
Williams. Harp, Violin, and 'Cello Recital.

May 10 — Rev. James Buckley, D. D. The Commencement Ad-
dress. Theological Seminary.

May 15 — Mrs. Olga Samaroflf. Piano Recital.

May 29 — Mr. Emilio de Gogorza. Vocal Recital.

June 4 — ^Professor George Whitefield Andrews. Organ Recital.

June 17 — President Henry Churchill King. Baccalaureate Ser-
mon. **The Great Refusal."

June 19— The Oberlln Musical Union. "Requiem." Verdi.

June 20 — Professor George Ilerljert Palmer. Commencement
Address.

June 20— The Oberlln Musical Union. "Sampson and Delilah."
Saint Saens,

June 21— Ben Greet Woodland Players. "As You Like It"
Matinee.

June 21 — Ben Greet Woodland Players. **The Tempest"

June 26-29— Music Teachers* National Association.

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Outside Work and Lectures

The work done in this direction by the different members of
the Faculty is in this year's report gathered together under a
single head, rather than scattered through the reports of of-
ficers and teachers. In addition to the necessarily heavy work
required of the members of the Faculty, in their respective de-
partments, time has been found for wide and varied forms of
usefulness outside of the College.

Professor Bosworth conducted a Bible class among the
business men of Cleveland each Thursday evening in connec-
tion with the Y. M. C. A., having an average attendance last
year of over fifty. He delivered four lectures in the Pilgrim
Church, Cleveland. He attended the New England Alumni
Asssociation in Boston as a representative of the College. He
delivered eleven addresses, in connection with the Congrega-
tional Congress of the Pacific Coast at Los Angeles ; four ad-
dresses before the Association of Employed Officers of the Y.
M. C. A. of North America. His work included eight ad-
dresses and conferences before the Ashville Conference of
Southern college men ; two addresses before the Ashville Con-
ference of Southern college women ; ten addresses and confer-
ences in the College Students' Conference at Northfield: two
weeks of work at Silver Bay, -Lake George, including two Bible
classes and several addresses ; two addresses and several con-
ferences before the Boys' Conference of Eastern States, Silver
Bay.

Prof. MacLennan read a valuable paper before the West-
ern Psychological Association, entitled Organisation in Psy-
chology.

Dr. Fitch attended the summer conference of the Young
Women's Christian Association of the Central West, held at
Winona Lake, Indiana, speaking twice and leading the Faculty

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Conference. She was appointed chairman of the Committee
on Student Work in connection with the Young Women's
Christian Associations of Ohio, having general oversight of
the work done in the colleges of the state and directing in some
measure the movements of the State Secretary. Dr. Fitch also
delivered the address at the laying of the comer-stone of the
first woman's building at Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio.

Professor George Frederick Wright delivered six lectures
before the McCormick Theological Seminary on The Origin
and Antiquity of the Human Race, and numerous other lectures.

Professor Root delivered an address at the annual meet-
ing of the Ohio Library Association, also an address at the ded-
ication of the public library in North Amherst. He has also
served on several important committees in connection with the
American Library Association and the Ohio Library Associa-
tion ; and, in addition to work strictly professional, has deliver-
ed numerous other addresses of a varied nature during the year
and in connection with the organizations of which he is a mem-
ber.

Prof. George W. Andrews has given important recitals in
Monmouth and Austin, Illinois ; Kalamazoo, Michigan ; Marys-
ville, Findlay, Cleveland, and Mount Vernon, Ohio; in addi-
tion to the five recitals given in Oberlin. He also served as a
member of the committee appointed to consider the new
twenty-thousand-dollar organ to be erected at Chautauqua As-
sembly.

Other members of the Conservatory Faculty have been do-
ing interesting and important work in Cleveland and other
places. The representation of the College by student organiza-
tions has been wholly creditable, the work of the Glee Club in
this respect, of course, being particularly noticeable.

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X. MATERIAL EQUIPMENT

Under this heading there is not much to be added to the
report of last year, beyond what has been already given in the
report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. The
chief changes are those made in connection with the Women's
Gymnasium and in the provision of fire-escapes. It has been
greatly hoped that there might be recorded under this head
this year the beginnings of both the chapel and the library
building, but the great increase in the cost of building material,
as already noted, has made bids for both buildings run much
beyond the funds provided. One of the problems the College
faces is to secure, in spite of this large increase in prices, a
prompt erection of these much needed buildings.

Gains

The gains for the year, on the material side, have been al-
ready fully treated in speaking of the gifts received by the
College, under the head of *'Donors," earlier in the report.

XI. NEEDS

The main needs brought out by the survey of the year
have been noted in the various sections of the report, and es-
pecially in connection wdth the reports of the administrative
officers, of the Faculty, and of the Secretary. Several of the
pressing needs mentioned in last year's report have, of course,
now been met by the completion of the new Half Million Fund.
It is still the judgment of the President that increase in en-
dowment is now needed nowhere more than in the Theological
Department, where there has been no increase in resources for
many years. Many of the teachers in the Academy emphasize,
besides, the need of more comfortable rooms and better equip-
ment in that department. The College Department should
soon see — this year if possible — the appointment of another

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professor in the field of economics or political science, and the
appointment as well of another professor in the Department of
English; and the increase from tuitions may make these ad-
vances possible. It seems desirable that the Department of
English should very soon have one full professor and two asso-
ciate professors, probably one man and one woman. The
Department of Latin and Greek also should soon be enlarged
to include two professors and two associates, to whom should
be given not only the regular courses in Latin and Greek, and
Greek and Roman Archseology, but also courses covering the
ground of Greek and Roman literature in English, and having
charge as well of scholarly courses in Greek and Roman
History. These changes would enable these departments to
retain in a far greater degree their deserved hold upon the life
of the College.

There should be also two full professorships in history.
Some further growth in the teaching force in mathematics will
probably be compelled. Under arrangements already made or
making, each of the chief sciences, except physics, will have
its separate building, and its adequate teaching force; and the
Department of Physics, though its rooms are somewhat scat-
tered in Peters Hall, is in admirable condition.

The need of additional provision for shop work and work
that shall help us to adjustment with the technical schools is, of
course, especially needed, and it should at least be possible to
make better provision than is at present done for the work in
Surveying and Mechanical Drawing.

Among the less expensive needs the enlargement of the
psychological laboratory is one of the most pressing. There
is need as well of a fund for general lectures that could be
turned in various directions according to special needs.

The three buildings most needed, besides the chapel and
the library, now provided, are, in the judgment of the Presi-

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dent, a Men's Building that should aflford in the broadest way
a center for all the men's activities; an Art Building, to pro-
vide not only for the Olney Collection but for steady growth
along art lines; and an Administration Building. Some pro-
vision for hospital facilities ought soon to be made. There
can be no doubt, either, of the need of further dormitories for
women.

The definite recommendations of the Council for the pres-
ent and ensuing years are necessarily limited by the Budget
and will be presented to the Trustees in connection with the
preliminary report of the Budget Committee.
Respectfully submitted,

HENRY CHURCHILL KING.

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Report of the Secretary

To the President :

Sib — I have the honor to present herewith my eighth annual re-
port as Secretary of Oberlin CJollege, covering the year 1905-06.

The general work of this office has followed the same lines as
have been indicated in previous reports. The new letter-filing cabinet,
purchased during the year 1904, has now reached the limit of its ca-
pacity, and we face an expense necessary for a duplicate set of
boxes, to cost probably $100.

With the increased work in this office it has been necessary to
employ additional clerks. It frequently happens that there are as
many as eight or nine people employed in the three rooms belonging
to this office, more than can work in such crowded quarters to good
advantage.

It seems impossible to me that the Trustees of the college will be
willing to have the contents of the offices exposed much longer to the
fire risk of this present unsatisfactory building.

The Prudential Committee has several times considered the ques-
tion of the completion of our card catalogue of former students as
a necessary piece of work in connection with the plans for the gen-
eral reunion of all former students on the occasion of the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the college in June, 1908. Voting under date of
April 26th, 1906, the Prudential (Committee authorized me to proceed
to the completion of the card catalogue of former students, and ap-
propriated $200 for this purpose to cover the expense up to August
31st, 1906. Again under date of August 4th, 1906, the Committee
voted to authorize the expenditure of the sum of $1000 for the year
1906-07, this amount to be charged into the expense account for the
reunion of 1908. Under the authority of these votes, considerable
progress has been made with our card catalogue, and I can now re-
port of the Trustees that at the middle of November the cards had
been written for all students prior to the year 1876. There is a period
of twenty-one years, from 1876 to 1897, for which the cards will need
to be written. I estimate that we have now written the cards for be-
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there will be perhaps ten thousand more cards for this interval of
twenty-one years above mentioned.

Of course it will be understood that when this card catalogue is
finished we shall have completed only a very small part of the work
involved in finding the present addresses of students. This work of
locating the former students and getting reports from them was what
the Prudential Committee had particularly in mind when the vote
was passed in August authorizing the expenditure of $1000. Mr.
Luther D. Harkness, who has been engaged in the publication of the
quinquennial catalogues for the last fifteen years, and who has a thor-
ough knowledge of the alumni of the college, has been engaged for
the work upon the new general catalogue of former students, and will
give his entire time throughout the coming year to this new work.
The magnitude of the work may perhaps be estimated by remember-
ing that our last Quinquennial Catalogue contained information con-
cerning 4,000 graduates ; whereas the new catalogue that we have in
preparation will contain the names of at least 35,000 former students.

It should also be said that the work that is being done of find-
ing the addresses of students and of completing the card catalogue
of all students would need to be done whether we print a general
catalogue or not By the June meeting of the Board of Trustees in
1907 we shall be able to make close estimates of what the printed
catalogue will cost

In my report of last year I stated that there were two items of
new work which I hoped to undertake during the year. These were
the publication of a new illustrated pamphlet and the distribution
to high schools of framed photographs of college buildings and
grounds. It was not possible to do anything upon the new illustrated
pamphlet, and we still face the necessity of an illustrated book for
distribution to the students of high schools and academies. The
former pamphlets that we have had were very eflfective In bringing
Oberlin to the favorable consideration of students who were looking
forward to college work. The Committee on Outside Representation
has directed me to proceed with the collection of the material for
the new pamphlet, reducing the amount of descriptive matter, and in-
creasing the numljer of views of college buildings. I shall hope that
during the winter some progress can be made in printing this pamphlet

The calls from good high schools for framed photographs have
been met In part by the distribution of panoramic views of the Cam-
pus sent out in attractive framing. The size of these frames is 14

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inches by 40 inches. The schools to which these frames have been
sent include such representative ones as those of Akron, Elyria, Lo-»
rain, Mansfield, and Sandusky, in Ohio; Joliet, Illinois; Cleveland
Central High School, Cleveland Lincoln High School, Toledo Central
High School, Rayen High School at Youngstown, and Perkiomen Sem-
inary, Pennsburg, Pa.

Another piece of advertising that was undertaken for the first
time was the distribution of copies of the College Annual, which
were offered to us by the publishers at a reduced rate. Seventy of
these student annuals were sent out to the high schools, and I think
that they made a very favorable impression upon a large number of
high school students, and helped materially in bringing to Oberlin the
increased number of students this fall. It is my personal Judgment
that this piece of advertising work should be continued for several
years at least

I am sorry to report that no progress has been made upon the
two items of deferred work which I have been facing for several
years, mentioned In my last report These are the systematic filing
of many old documents of historical value, now stored In our vault,
and the completion of the index of the first volume of Trustee Records.
Both of these items of work are very attractive to me personally, and
ought properly to be completed in the course of the next few months
in order that any historical material revealed in the work should be
accessible for the use of any persons who prepare historical articles
in connection with the 1908 reunion.

Some progress has been made upon a new card catalogue which
promises to be of great service, especially in securing uniformity of
treatment in the assignment of credits of different students who come
to us from a particular high school. It has often happened that I
have been told by a student that some other student who had come
from the same high school had received a different assignment of
credits from that which was being given to the applicant Hereto-
fore the only method of referring to the credits assigned to former
cases has been to look the cases up one by one upon the books in the
College Registrar's office, a time-consuming and tedious procedure.
The records of students admitted in former years to the College de-
partment will hereafter l>e arranged upon cards in my office, and upon
the same card there will be a memorandum of the quality of work
done by each student The completion of these new cards will mean,
therefore, that with a minimum of effort and with but slight loss of

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time, we shall be able to have full information before us at all times
with reference to former students from any particular high school.
The cards will be filed geographically and in the course of three or
four years the material in the new file will be of very great reference
value.

I wish to join very heartily In the suggestion for the appointment
of a traveling representative of 01)erlin Academy, whose first duty
shall be to visit the high schools of small towns to present the at-
tractions of Oberlin Academy as a place for the completion of pre-
paratory courses. The high schools which are ranked in this state as
of the second and of the third grade could properly be visited in this
way. Students who complete courses in these high schools usually
need one, two, or even three more years of preparatory work before
they are ready for admission to the best institutions, and the at-
tractions of Oljerlin Academy ought to appeal strongly to these stu-
dents if it were possible to bring the Academy effectively to their
attention.

Such a traveling representative would not only aid the Academy
by increasing the students in that department, but would advance the
general Interests of the college in at least two other valuable ways:
first, by assisting in placing the graduates of the college in important
teaching positions in the high schools of the state, and by bringing
our Bureau of Appointments Into closer touch with the high school
situation ; and, second, by co-operating with the President's Assistant
in finding men of financial resources to whom the needs of Oberlin
College could well be presented.

An appointment of this character has been urged by the Principal
of the Academy for many years. The experience which I have had
in the last eight years as Secretary of the College makes me sure that
in a very few years such a representative of the Academy would se-
cure results that would fully justify the new appointment.

The conviction has grown upon me that the most Important ques-
tion which Is at present before the friends of Oberlin Is the question
of how to make the college increasingly attractive for men. The need
which has been constantly presented to the Trustees for the last three
years for enough money to make a modest beginning upon shop-
work is more pressing than ever. The shop-work need Is scarcely
more urgent than that of an adequately equipped building which shall
be the center of the men's life. My correspondence with prospective
students convinces me that we would be able to win for Oberlin many

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very desirable men if we could offer to them some shop-work facili-
ties and a richer fellowship of men with men. I think that it is fair
to say that we particularly desire an increased number of men in
our Ck)llege department, and nothing will be so likely to bring to us
men of the right type as the erection of a men's building and the in-
stallation of such facilities for shop- work as will meet the imperative
needs of those who wish to go from Oberlin to technical schools.

The material in this report will be grouped under five main
heads, as follows :
Publications

Correspondence and Admission of Students
Scholarships and Beneficiary Aid
Official Records and Statistics
The Athletic Association.

I. PUBLICATIONS
Bulletin of Oherlin College
The most important publication Is the Bulletin of Oberlin College,
issued every six weeks. It included last year the following numbers :
No. 19. Annual Reports for 1904-05, Dec. 1905.
No. 20. Catalogue for 1905-06, preliminary edition, Jan. 1906.
No. 21. Theological Seminary catalogue for 1905-06, Feb. 1906.
No. 22. Necrologlcal Record, for 1905-06, June 1906.
No. 23. Catalogue for 1905-06, final edition. May 1906.
No. 24. Academy Calendar for 1906, June 1906.

One extra number was issued as follows :
Catalogue of Summer School for 1906, Feb. 1906.

Numbers 19 and 23 were mailed to all alumni.
Other Puhlications

The other publications which have been issued during the year
have included the annual calendar and the printed directory of stu-
dents. The calendar for 1006 was issued on the first of December,
1905, the edition being 4,000. Of this number 1,500 were distributed
among the high schools of Ohio and the neighboring states, and proba-
bly 500 more were sent to important friends of the college. The stu-
dents and faculty purchased the remaining calendars. The net cost
to the college of these calendars was about $150.

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The calendar for 1907, which is now in the hands of the printer,
will be of the same general style as the calendar for 1906, with very
decided improvements in the designs of more than half of the interior
pages as well as the cover design. The edition for 1907 will be 4,000,
the same as last year.

The third annual directory of the students was issued October
8th, 1906. It contains the names and addresses of students, faculty,
and trustees, together with information concerning the administra-
tive officers and faculty, and the names of officers of classes and of
student organizations. The sale of the directories to students meets
practically all the cost of printing them.

We have had one more year of experience with the engfraved In-
vitations for Ck)mmencement These invitations have been sent to
trustees, donors, and to other influential friends, and to the presi-
dents of a considerable number of colleges and universities. The re-
sponses showed that the courtesy is appreciated, and the issuing of
these invitations will probably become a regular part of the Com-
mencement schedule. In this same line it may also be noted that
Oberlin Academy has been issuing engraved invitations to its friends
and patrons for several years with increasingly good results.

During the last few years increased attention has been given
to arrangements for the Ck)mmencement Exercises. Carefully pre-
pared programs have been distributed to members of the classes plan-
ning to hold reunions, and special efforts have been made by the
College to see that alumni and friends In attendance at the Com-
mencement Exercises are adequately entertained while in Oberlin.
Mention should be made here of the very efficient work of Mr. L. D.
Harkness in the entertainment of the visitors at Commencement

As chairman of the Committee on Printing for the sixtieth an-
nual meeting of the American Missionary Association, held in Ober-
lin October 23-25, 1906, I had charge of the printing of a souvenir
program containing much illustrative and descriptive material con-
cerning Oberlin. Three thousand of these souvenir programs were
issued. They were mailed to the more important Congregational
ministers In the United States. In addition to large cuts of Oberlin,
the souvenir contained twelve pages of information with reference to
Oberlln's history, professorships, and buildings, and a summary of
the most interesting facts at the present time. The distribution of
these souvenir programs ought to prove to be of value to the college.

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II. CORRESPONDENCE AND ADMISSION OF STUDENTS

In my last report I made a rather careful statement of the
method of procedure to be followed with reference to prospective
students for our next Freshman class. My plans were carried out as
outlined. The volume of work is sufficient to keep two stenographers
busy all the time, and frequently I am compelled to call in a third
stenographer.

The College Enrolment

The enrolment in the College Department for the year 1905-06, as
published in the final edition of the catalogue was 714. Several mis-
takes were made in the division of this total into men and women.
The correct figures for the year are shown as follows :

Men Women Total

Graduates 15 7 22

Seniors 57 77 134

Juniors 59 77 136

Sophomores 62 97 159

Freshmen 89 119 208

Specials 15 40 55

297 417 714

Analysis of College Enrolment

The following table shows the number of students registered
during the year 1905-06, and the proportion of new students for whom
it was the first year of enrolment in the College Department :

In the College department, year of 1904-05...
In the College department, prior to 1904

In the Academy department, year of 1904-05 . . .

In the Academy department, prior to 1904

In the Conservatory department, year of 1904-05
In the Theological department, year of 1904-05
New students, never registered in any dep*t

Per ct. of
Whole
Men Women Total No.

183

235

418 58.5

24 3.4

42 5.0

2 0.3

6 0.9

1 0.1

141

221 30.0

297

417

714 100.0

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From this table it will be seen that 442 students had been enrolled
previously in the Ck)llege Department, while 272. representing slightly
more than 33 per cent of the total enrolment, were new students in
that department.

It should be noted that about 62 per cent, of the students had
had previous enrolment in the College department. This percentage
seems to be increasing each year, the corresponding percentage for
1904-05 being 61 per cent, that for 1903-04 being 55 per cent, that for
1902-03 being 60 per cent., that for 1901-02 being 58 per cent

The table shows a decrease in the percentage of students who
came into the CJollege from previous study in the Academy department
This percentage has been decreasing during recent years. Last year
the Academy contributed (J.7 per cent of the total enrolment in tlie
Ck)llege. The corresponding figures for the four preceding years were
7.4 per cent., 10.9 per cent, 11.9 per cent.» and 12.8 per cent This
decrease is explained largely by the other fact of the widening constit-
uency of the College and the increasing number of high schools that
are sending their graduates into the College. In connection with the
large decrease of the last two years it should be borne in mind that
the graduates from Oberlin High School have been entering the Col-
lege department, twenty in 1904-05 and fourteen in 1905-06. Prior
to 1904-05 the graduates of Oberlin High School needed an additional
year in Oberlin Academy in order to secure rank in the College de-
partment

Classification of New Students

The 272 new students who were admitted to the College depart-
ment were classified as follows:

Men Women Total
Admitted as Graduate Students... Oil

" Seniors 4 4 8

" Juniors 4 10 14

" " Sophomores 10 13 23

" Freshmen 81 114 195

" College Specials .... 8 23 31

107 165 272

In addition to the 195 new Freshmen shown in the preceding
table there were 13 others whose names were listed in the Freshman

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class who were Freshmen during the preceding year and failed to ad-
vance to the Sophomore class. The total number of all Freshmen as
shown in the catalogue was 208.

Forty-six new students were admitted to higher rank than that of
Freshman. This number is larger than in any other year in the his-
tory of the College with the single exception of the year 1903-04. This
large number of students who come to Oberlin College with advanced
classification, after enrolment in other institutions, constitutes one
of the most striking developments of the recent years. A comparison
of similar statistics for the last six years is added at this point. No
statistics were kept with reference to advanced classification prior to
1900-01.

1905 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900
-06 -05 -04 -08-02-01

Admitted as Graduate Students 13 5 10 1

Seniors 8 5 6 6 4 3

Juniors 14 6 13 9 6 8

Sophomores 23 20 23 14 13 6

46 34 47 30 23 18

Freshmen 195 187 210 168 165 -g^

Cvollege Specials . . 31 40 30 33 19

272 261 287 231 207 168
Students Admitted to Advanced Standing

The preceding table shows that there were 46 new students ad-
mitted to higher rank than Freshman, and in addition to this number
there were 3 College Specials who entered from other colleges and are
fairly to be considered as of advanced rank. Of this total of 49
students of advanced standing 38 came to Oberlin from 30 different
colleges as follows :

Alma College, Michigan

Amherst College, Masj^achusetts

Berea College, Kentucky

Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Illinois

Carleton College, Minnesota

Central College, Indiana 3

Dakota Wesleyan University, South Dakota 1

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Doane Ck)llege, Nebraska

Fitchburg Normal School, Massachusetts

Greenville Ck)llege, Illinois

Hillsdale Ck)llege, Michigan

Iowa Wesleyan University, Iowa

Knox Ck)llege, Illinois

Leland Stanford Jr. University, California

McPherson College, Kansas

Monmouth College, Illinois

Ohio State University, Ohio

Olivet College, Michigan

South Dakota Agricultural College, South Dakota . . .

South Dakota School of Mines, South Dakota

Toledo Normal School, Ohio

University of California, California

University of Denver, Colorado

University of Missouri, Missouri

University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

University of Wooster, Ohio

Vincennes University, Indiana

Western College, Ohio

Western Reserve College for Women, Ohio

Yankton College, South Dakota

Seven students who were enrolled the previous year in Oberlin
Academy were able to enter the College as Sophomores. These seven
students did not have sufficient credits to secure the Freshman classi-
fication at the beginning of the year, but were ranked as Academy
students with advanced credits, and by doing extra work during the
year they were able to secure classification the succeeding year as
Sophomores with deficiencies. Advancement in classification in some
such way as this is made very easy by enrolment for summer work in
the Oberlin Summer School.

One student entered with the classification of Junior after work
in Oberlin Academy and in several sessions of the Oberlin Summer
School.

Two students entered with advanced standing after classification
the preceding year in Oberlin Conservatory of Music. One of these
secured classification as a Senior, the other as a Sophomore. In both

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Instances there had been preceding enrolment in the College depart-
ment

One student was admitted to the rank of Senior after previous
study In the Theological department. This student was a graduate
from a small college and had had other graduate work in eastern in-
stitutions.

Students Admitted as Freshmen and College Specials

It is of interest to note where the new Freshmen and College
Specials received their preparation for college. Three of the College
Specials and one Freshman had studied in other colleges and were
really of higher rank than Freshman. Three other Freshmen had
taken work in other institutions and entered Oberlln at the beginning
of the second semester, presenting thus some college work in addition
to the usual high school preparation. There were two other students
who, because of their age and definite plans for college work, were
given classification as Si)ecials in the College department without the
usual formality of entrance papers to show previous studies. The
table on page 127 shows 22G new Freshmen and College Specials.
Subtracting the nine students above mentioned we have left a total of
217. Of these, 35 came from Oberlin Academy, and 182 from 128 high
schools, academies, and other institutions.

There were 302 schools that were represented by one student each.
The schools which sent more than one student numbered 26. With
the extension of the course of study at Oberlln High School the grad-
uates of this school are able to take classification as Freshmen, and
14 of the Oberlin High School graduates were admitted to the College
department The next school in point of enrolment of graduates was
Elyria High School, with 7 students.

The 128 schools which furnished new students of Freshman grade
for Oberlin College were as follows :

Adams, N. Y., High School 1

Albany, N. Y., New York State Normal School 1

Argyle, Minn.. High School 1

Ashland, O., High School 1

Ashtabula, O., High School 2

Augusta, Wis., High School 1

Austlnburg, O.. Grand River Institute 3

Baraboo, Wis., High School 1

Benzonia, Mich., Benzonla Academy 1

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Boone, la., High School

Buffalo, N. Y., Central High School

Buffalo, N. Y., Masten Park High School ,

Calumet, Mich., High School

Canton, O., High School

Canton, S. D., Augustana College

Cattaraugus, N. Y., High School

Chardon, O., High School

Cherokee, la., High School

Chicago, 111., Lake View High School

Chicago, HI., Medlll High School

Chllllcothe, O., High School

Chrisman, HI., High School

Cleveland, O., Central High School

Cleveland, O., Lincoln High School

Cleveland, O., West High School 3

•Cortland, O., High School 2

Dayton, O., Steele High School 3

Denmark, la., Denmark Academy

Denver, Colo., East Side High School .'

Detroit, Mich., Central High School

Dunkirk, N. Y., High School

East Chicago, Ind., High School

East Northfleld, Mass., Northfleld Seminary

Easton, Pa., High School

Elkhart, Ind., High School

Elk Point, S. D., High School

Elmwood, 111., High School

Elyria, O., High School

Flushing, N. Y., High School

Fort Edward, N. Y., Ford Edward Collegiate Institute

Fostoria, O., High School ,

Frederick town, O., High School

Gambler, O., Kenyon Military Academy

Geneva, O., High School

Georgia State Industrial College, Ga

Greencastle, Ind., High School

Hancock, Mich., High School

Hartford City, Ind.. High School

Honolulu, H. I., Oahu College

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Hoopeston, 111., High School

Huntington, Ind., High School

Huntsburg, O., High School

Jaclcson, Mich., High School

Jackson, Minn., High School

Kane, Pa., High School

Kendallville, Ind., High School

Kenton, O., High School

KIrtland, O., High School

LaGrange, Ind., High School

Lakeside, O., High School

La Sueur, Minn., High School

Lawrence, Mich., High School

Lima, O., High School

Lisbon, O., High School

Lodi, O., High School

Madisonville, O., High School

Mansfield, Mass., High School

Mansfield, O.. High School

Maquoketa, la.. High School

Marion, O., High School

Marysville, O., High School

Maryville, Mo., High School

Miller, S. D., High School

Moline, 111., High School

Montevideo, Minn., Windom Institute

Muskegon, Mich., High School

Napoleon, O., High School

Nevada, la.. High School

Newark, O., High School

New Brighton, Pa., High School

New Jersey State Normal School, N. J

New London, O., High School

Normal, 111., High School

Northfleld, Minn., Carleton College Academy

Norwich, N. Y., High School

Oak Park. 111., Oak Park and River Forest Twp.

High School 2

Oberlin, O., Oberlin Academy 35

Oberlin, O., High School 14

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Olivet, Mich., College Preparatory Department 1

Omaha, Neb., High School 5

Osborn, O., High School

PainesviUe, O., High School

Pasadena, Calif., Throop Polytechnic Institute

Pennsburg, -Pa., Perklomen Seminary

Peoria, 111., High School

Phoenix, N. Y., High School

Plqua, O., High School

Ravenna, C, High School

Rushvllle, 111., High School

St Johns, Mich., High School ,

St Paris, C, High School

Salem, C, High School

Sandusky, O., High School

Santa Ana, Calif., High School

Scranton, Pa., High School

Seattle, Wash., High School

Sibley, la., High School

Sidney, N. Y., High School

Sioux Falls, S. D., All Saints School

South New Lyme, O., New Lyme Institute

Springfield, 111., High School

Stanton, Mich., High School

Taylorvllle. 111., High School

Tiskllwa, 111., High School

Toledo, O., Central High School

Troy, O., High School

Ubee, Ind., Central College

Union City, Pa., High School

Upper Sandusky, O., High School

Van Wert O., High School

Waterloo, Ind., High School

Wauseon, O., High School

Wellington, C, High School

West Oneonta, N. Y., High School

West Richfield, N. Y., High School

Wllmot O., High School

Youngstown, C, Uayen High School

Zanesvllle, 0., High School..-

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Requirements for Admission to the College Department

For a number of years the definitions that have been used for
units of admission credit have remained unchanged. In two or three
of the subjects, particularly in the History and Civics group, there
seems to be need of general revision, and the Ck>mmittee on Admis-
sion will probably spend some time during the coming year upon the
definitions of entrance credits. The North Central Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools is facing the subject of revision of defi-
nitions of entrance units, and any changes that are made in Oberlin
ought probably to follow very closely the definitions adopted by the
North Central Association.

Amount of Entrance Credits

For two years the following vote by the Committee on Admission
has been In force. — "That not more than sixteen units of admission
credits will be granted to any student whose preparatory work In
High School (or Academy) covered only four years In time." Our
experience with this rule has been altogether satisfactory. In 1904-05
there were only nineteen students, comprising 9 per cent of the to-
tal number, who were granted entrance credits of more than sixteen
units, and In 1905-OC there were only fourteen students, comprising
somewhat less than 7 per cent of the total number, whose entrance
credits were In excess of sixteen units. In all cases these students
had preparatory courses covering four full years and an additional
year either In the Academy or as a post-graduate In a high school.

Referring again to the table on page 127, which shows a total
of 226 new Freshmen and College Specials, there were three Specials
and three Freshmen who had studied In other colleges, whose admis-
sion credits Included both high school and college work. Deducting
these six students, also seven other students whose credits were either
never Investigated or were In such Irregular condition as not to per-
mit of easy tabulation, we have left a total of 213 new students.
The preparation of these 213 students has been carefully studied and
the results recorded In the following tables.

The table of percentages which follows shows roughly, (1) the
number of students who were conditioned at entrance, (2) the stu-
dents who exactly met the admission requirements, and (3) the stu-
dents who entered with more than fifteen units of credit A "unit"
of work for entrance comprises four recitation periods a week for

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one year with recitations of one hour eacii. it being understood that
five periods of forty-five minutes eacli are accepted as an equivalent.

Number of Amount of
StttdenU Entrance Credit

1905-06
Per Cent

19044)6
Per Cent

1908-04
Percent

1902-0
PerCe

Between 14 and 15 units.

. 29.6

32.2

36.5

34.7

15 units

. 30.5

22.8

18.0

17.1

Between 15 and 16 units.

. 33.3

36.0

32.6

23.2

More than 16 units

6.6

9.0

12.9

25.0

213 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Seventy per cent, of ail the students who come to Oberlin are
now able to enter with the full admission credit of fifteen units or
more.

The details of entrance credits for the 213 students are as fol-
lows:

Units Presented Men Women Total

14 units 9 15 24

14 1-6 units 3 4 7

14 1-3 units 2 10 12

14 1-2 units 5 9 14

14 2-3 units 1 1 2

14 5-6 units 2 2 4

15 units 24 41 65

15 1-6 units 2 3 5

15 1-3 units 3 6 9

15 1-2 units 9 9 18

15 2-3 units 6 7 13

15 5-6 units 1 2 3

10 units 9 14 23

More than 16 units 9 5 14

85 128 213

Entrance Subjects Presented by Freshmen

English. Two hundred and six applicants, representing 96.7 per
cent of the entire number, met the full requirement of three units in
the subject of English. Forty-two of this numbeir received credits
slightly in excess of three units, in consideration of preparatory work

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In English covering more than three years. The number of students
asking for more than three units of credit has increased very notice-
ably in the last few years. Professor Wager has placed a notice in
the catalogue that after the present year of 3906-07 credit will not be
given for a fourth year of English without examination. It ought
certainly to be possible to secure adequate preparation for the college
work In English by three years of daily recitations in the high school.

Seven students entered with deficiencies in English, three men
and four women. This is a much smaller number than in the pre-
ceding year, when the number of students entering with deficiencies
was twenty-one. Students who are received with conditions In Eng-
lish are required to elect preparatory courses in Oberlin Academy in
order to make up the deficiencies.

History and Civics, Only three students failed to meet the min-
imum requirement of one unit in History and Civics. These stu-
dents who present less than one unit are required to elect courses
in History in the college to count back upon entrance credits In bal-
ancing deficiencies. Forty-three students presented the minimum of
one unit, and the remaining 167 presented more than one unit. Two
of this number presented more than three units. It is the preference
of the Ck>mmittee that not more than three units of work in History
be presented for entrance.

Mathematics, The full requirement of three units was met by
156 applicants out of 213. There *were nine others who received two
and one-half units of credit, but were not "conditioned." It Is the
expectation of the Committee that three years be spent in covering
the subjects specified in the definitions of entrance units, but occa-
sionally the schedule of work in the schools is so arranged as to cover
the ground in t\\o and one-half years. Formerly we allowed the full
credit of three units in such cases, which practically Imputed a half
unit of entrance credit to the students. In the last two years, how-
ever, we have followed the plan of allowing two and one-half units
of credit in these cases, and this practice seems to be entirely just
and satisfactory.

Forty-eight students were admitted with deficiencies in Mathe-
matics. Fifteen of these had a deficiency of a half unit in Algebra,
eighteen had a deficiency of a half unit in Solid Geometry, two had
a deficiency of a full unit including both Plane and Solid Geometry,
and thirteen had a condition of both a half unit in Algebra and a

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half unit In Solid Geometry. Conditions in Mathematics are made up
by enrolment in the classes in Oberlin Academj'.

Sciences. The minimum requirement in Sciences is one unit.
It is recommended that applicants present at least one Science course
which has covered a complete year, submitting satisfactory labora-
tory note-books, but the Committee still allows credit for "term"
courses and "half-year" courses. There were five students who had
no Science preparation, and three others who had had less than a
year of Science work, the total number of students entering with Sci-
ence deficiencies being eight, as compared to fourteen the preceding
year. Thirty-eight students exactly met the minimum requirement of
one unit; twenty-seven had credits ranging between one and two
units ; thirty-three presented two units ; forty-six had credits ranging
between two and three units; thirty-three presented three units.
There were twenty-eight students whose credits exceeded three units.
It is the preference of the Committee on Admission that not more
than three units of work be presented in Sciences, but the good high
schools are giving more attention each year to the preparation in
Science, and the refusal on the part of the college to recognize any
worthy work in Science would often result in hardship to the stu-
dents.

Languages, The minimum retjuirement is four units, of which
at least two must be either Greek or Latin. Thirty-eight applicants
failed to meet this minimum requirement, seventeen men and twenty-
one women. Three of these presented less than two units of lan-
guage work, five presented two units, two presented between two and
three units, seven presented three units, and twenty-one presented
l>etween three and four units. Forty-one students exactly met the
minimum of four units. Fifty-nine presented Language credits rang-
ing between four units and six units ; twelve presented between six
and seven units; and eighteen presented seven units.

There were five students who presented more than seven units,
one of these receiving nine units of language credit and one ten.
The student who received nine units of credit presented two in Greek,
four In Latin, two in French, and one in German. In this case the
preparatory course covered five years in the high school. In the case
of the student who presented ten units of entrance credit in lan-
guages, three and one-half were presented in Latin, two and one-
half In French, and four In German. The preparation of this stu-

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dent was very slight In Science and in History. This student pre-
pared for college by high school work, enrolment in Oberlin Summer
School, and by a year of Language study abroad.

The preference of the CJommittee is that students present four
years of Latin and two years of a second language.

Latin. The minimum requirement in Latin is two units. Six
students presented no Latin and three others presented less than the
minimum. Twenty-three presented the minimum of two units. One
hundred and four presented four units in Latin, and twelve others
presented more than four units. The preference of the CJommittee
is that students should present four units in Latin, and it will be
noted that one hundred and sixteen applicants (somewhat more than
50 per cent.) presented this amount In general the Latin prepara-
tion of new students has been strikingly uniform during the last four
years.

Students who present less than two units of Latin are required
to elect work in Oberlin Academy to meet this minimum. Where a
student presents more than two units, but less than four, the Com-
mittee on Admission urges, but does not require, the election of
Academy courses in Latin.

Orcek. Greek is optional. The number of applicants presenting
Greek grows smaller every year. In 1905-06 there were only twenty-
five students out of a total of two hundred and thirteen who pre-
sented Greek for entrance credit less than 12 per cent, as compared
to 20 ver cent, in 1904-05, and 38 i>er cent in 1902-03. Relatively
few of those who present Greek for admission offer less tlian t^o
full years of work.

Oehnan, German is optional. The total number of students who
presented German was 132, being 61.0 per cent, as compared to 68.2
per cent in 1904-05, 61.8 in 1903-04, and a3.4 In 1902-03. Two stu-
dents presented less than one unit, receiving provisional credit in this
subject with the understanding that the credit would be confirmed
upon the completion of suflicient additional work to raise the total
credit to one unit Twenty-eight students presented a single year of
German, while sixty-seven presented two years. Eleven students pre-
sented between two and three units, and three presented work for
which three or four units of credit were allowed.

French, French Is optional. The total number of applicants
who presented French was thlrty-tw^o, as compared to thirty-three
In 1904-05. Sixteen of the students presented a year of French,

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while eight presented two years. Very few schools seem to offer
French in their list of high school electives.

Other Languages. One applicant received a year of credit in
Spanish, one a year of credit in Hlndoostanie, and one a year and a
half of credit in Norwegian.

Miscellaneous Subjects. The CJommittee is willing to make some
allowance for admission credit for subjects not ordinarily taught In
high schools, provided the work is worthy and the certificates show
that the preparation has been good. Two students received some
credit for Free-hand Drawing, seven students for Mechanical Draw-
ing, Shop Work, and Manual Training. Two students from out-
side schools and four from Oberlin Academy received entrance credit
for work in Declamation and Oratory. Five students received small
allowances for the subject of Psychology. A considerable number of
the students who entered from Oberlin Academy presented some col-
lege electives for entrance credits.

The general attitude of the Committee with reference to the
miscellaneous subjects above mentioned is that they do not properly
belong in the high school curriculum, but that where they have con-
stituted" a part of the students' regular courses In the high school it
is not unreasonable to allow a slight amount of credit for them.

Admission Credits of Conservatory Students

In accordance with the vote of the Trustees, the students of the
Conservatory are now catalogued under two headings, "Students of
College Rank," and "Students of Academy Rank," it being explained
in the catalogue that the students of the first classification have met
the literary requirements for admission to the College department,
while the students of the second classification have not met these lit-
erary requirements. The general catalogue for 1905-06 contained the
names of 5G3 Conservatory students. Of this number 148 were classed
as of College rank and 415 as of Academy rank. The relative number
of students of College rank is somewhat more than 26 per cent The
corresponding figures for last year were 97 out of a total of 549,
somewhat less than 18 per cent. This is a very satisfactory gain.

The preparatory credits of the 148 students of college grade came
to me as Chairman of the Committee on Admission, and were treated
in practically the same way as the preparatory credits of students in
the College department The Committee on Admission has passed

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the following votes with reference to the literary credits of CJonser-
vatory students: (1) that substitutions will be allowed for the half
unit of Solid Geometry and the last half unit of Algebra, these substi-
tutions to be made from other subjects regularly approved for en-
trance credit; (2) that there will be no releases from the minimujn
requirements of three units in English, one unit in History, and one
unit in Sciences; (3) that there will be no releases from the minimum
requirement of four units in Languages with two of these units pre-
sented from some one Language, but the Committee will not insist
that the two units be presented in Latin.

Interval Between High School Qraduation and College Registration

Of the 213 students whose entrance papers were examined, 144
were graduates from the high schools In the preceding June, a per-
centage of almost 68. In the cases of 20 of the students, represent-
ing 9.5 per cent of the total, there was an interval of three years or
more between the completion of high school study and the l)eginning
of college work. In one case there was an interval of eleven years.
The following table gives full information upon this point:

Date of Graduation Number of Students

from Hifirh Schools Admitted Sept., 1905

June 1905 144

January 1905 1

June 1904 46

January 1904 2

June 1903 9

June 1902 6

June 1900 2

June 1899 2

June 1895 1

Total 213

First Semester Reports for Freshmen
We have had another year of very satisfactory experience with
the system of reports of the work of Freshmen during the first se-
mester of enrolment in Oberlln. For three years the records of schol-
arship of Freshmen and College Specials during their first se-
mester of Oberlln work have been sent back to the preparatory
schools from which the students came. Where the students showed

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particularly fine scholarship the reports were accompanied by per-
sonal letters expressing the satisfaction of the college In the work of
the students, and we have received many replies showing that the
best schools take a wholesome pride In the subsequent work of their
graduates.

The preparation of the reports has given the officers of the col-
lege a chance to scrutinize the quality of the students* work more
carefully. The faculty has voted that the names of the ten students
of highest scholarship might be published In the college paper and
In the College Annual. Hereafter this list of ten names will be pre-
pared subject to the two following rules: (1) only those students
shall be considered who have been enrolled as Freshmen; and (2)
only those shall be considered who have taken not less than fifteen
hours of work in the College or Academy, eleven of those hours be-
ing selected from the regular Freshmen work. It Is the feeling of the
Committee that considered this question that It was only fair that the
scholarship grades be compared of those students who were doing
full work In the group of subjects set apart for Freshman election.

The grades of more than two hundred Freshmen and Specials
were averaged for the first semester of last year. Of this total sev-
enty-one students, al)out ^ per cent., had an average grade of 80
per cent, or better. Nine students had grades of 90 or better. One
student had an average grade of slightly more than 05 per cent

Non-Return of College Students

Referring again to the table on page 125 It appears that 183 men
and 235 women, a total of 418 students, who had been In the Col-
lege department In the year 1904-05 returned for the year 1905-06.

The following table gives the details of losses In the various
classes :

Graduates

Seniors

Juniors . . . ,
Sophomores
Freshmen . .
Specials . . .

In Catalofirue
1904-05

Returned
190&^

Did not Return
1905-06

Received
Decrees
1904-06

112

104

110

127

116

103

124

200

143

670 418 252 115

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Subtracting the 16 graduate students and the 110 Seniors who*
received degrees, we have left 544 students who ideally should have
come back to Oberlin in 1905-OG for further study. Of this total of 544
students there were 140 who did not return, the percentage of the
loss being 25.7 per cent This is not so great a percentage as during
either the year 1903-04 or 190i-05, the corresponding figures for these
years being 30 per cent and 28.1 per cent, respectively.

It is gratifying to note that the percentage of loss of the students
whose return is desired is decreasing.

The following table gives the items which constitute this loss of
140 students :

Enrolled 1904.^

but did not Percentage

Men Women Total Receive Desrrees of loss

Seniors 1 0 1 2 50.0

Juniors 5 6 11 127 8.7

Sophomores .... 15 24 39 163 23.9

Freshmen 24 33 57 200 28.5

Specials 13 19 32 52 61.6

58 82 140 544 25.7

The following table shows that for the year under consideration
the relative loss from non-return was greater among women than
among men :

EnroUed 1904-06 Did not

and did not R«»tum Percentaare

Receive Desrees 1905-06 of loss

Men 230 58 25.2

Women 314 82 26.1

Total 544 140 25.7

For several years I have presented a table of reasons for the non-
return of these college students, but this information is now being
reported by the Dean of College Men and by the Registrar, and I have
therefore made no attempt this year to study this question.

III. SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS AND BENEFICIARY AID
The following tables show the condition of scholarship and loan
funds and the payments for beneficiary aid for the year 1905-06, to-
gether with corresponding figures for the preceding year and for the
year 1894-95 :

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Scholarship Funds

University

Collesre

Seminary

Loan Funds

SheddFund

Jones

Moulton

Scholarship Loan

Conservatory

Gilchrist Banking Fund..

Beneficiary Aid Payments

University

College

Seminary*

Old Scholarships

Avery Fund

Trustee: College

Trustee: Academy..

Auff. 81. 1906

$100.
110.

1.065
1.750
.541
367

,000
558
56
895
816
,500

1905-06

2.04898

985 35

1.246 00

93 00

863 00_

4.736 33
I
744,06
684,00

Auff.31.1906

$45,065
26.000
20.541
90.607

$10,000
811
302
80
183

Ans.31.1895

$22,970

8.557

17.450

48.977

1.521

1904-06

2.289 70

1.086 00

].144|96

58,60

889 00

4.868

793
687

$6.164 38 I 6.848

1894-96

Note
Note
1.385
Note
Note

Note
Note

8.550

*The payments in the Seminary include also sifts and loans repaid.
Note A.— The total payments upon University. Colletre. Avery, and Trustee Scholar-
ships in 1894-95 were $2,216.82.

In the above table, scholarship funds are arranged under the
three headings of "University," "C!ollege," and "Seminary." The Uni-
versity scholarships include those funds not especially designated by
the founders for the use of particular departments. The assignment
of these scholarships, the determination as to whether they are to
be used for the aid of men or women, whether they are for College,
Academy, or Seminary students, has been by vote of the General Fac-
ulty. It will be noted that there are no special scholarships for the
Academy or for the Conservatory of Music.

It will be noted that there has been an Increase of $9,750 in
scholarship funds during the year. These increases were as follows :
the Goodnow Scholarships, $5,000, by bequest of E. A. Goodnow, of
Worcester, Mass.; and the Gilchrist-Potter Scholarships, $4,750, by
the bequest of Mrs. Ella Gilchrist Potter, of Alpena, Mich. Both of
these scholarships are for the use of young women in the College de
partment The loan funds have been Increased by the Gilchrist Bank-
ing Fund, $9,500. This Fund came to us by bequest of Mrs. Ella

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Gilchrist Potter. It constitutes a loan fund for the assistance of
students in all departments of the institution.

A word of explanation should be made with reference to the
"Trustee" scholarships. The amounts paid upon Trustee scholarships
each year represent payments from the general income of the College.
During the year 1905-06 the amount of Trustee scholarships used,
$1,428.05, represented the income of more than $30,000 of the general
endowment funds, and it would be very desirable that additional
scholarship funds be solicited, to remove the necessity of this tax
upon the endowment funds of the CJoilege.

The table which follows gives information with reference to the
number of students who have received help during the last two years
from the scholarship funds in the College and Academy departments,
together with the average amounts granted. In connection with the
larger average grants to women than to men, it should be borne in
mind that it is probably easier for young men to secure outside work
to help meet their College expenses than it is for young women :

K)5-06

Number

enrolled

in the

department

Number

receivingr

aid

College Men

297

College Women..

417

Academy Men . . .

197

Academy Women 149

1904-05

College Men 294

College Women . . 376

Academy Men... 214

Academy Women 148

74
65
72
23

Total
amount
granted

Average
amount
granted

$1,417.50

$20.25

2,019.49

33.11

742.50

12.80

366.50

15.27

$4,545.99

$1,682.00

$22.73

2,062.24

31.73

827.00

11.48

325.50

14.15

$4,896.74

The increase in the term bills in the College department from
$40 per year to $75 per year, and in the Academy department from
$40 per year to $50 per year, makes it difficult to realize for our self-
supporting students the hope which is expressed in the annual cata-
logue of the College in the following words, "that no worthy student

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need be prevented from enjoying the privileges of the College because
of his inability to pay the term bills." We need more scholarship
funds, not less, for beneficiary aid purposes.

It would also be very desirable if several prize scholarships could
be established, to be awarded for superior excellence in studies. All
of our present scholarship funds are beneficiary in their nature.

It is not the custom of the committees that have charge of the
distribution of beneficiary aid to grant the entire Income of any par-
ticular scholarship to any particular person. Usually the income of
a scholarship is assigned to several students. In a few cases, as
for instance, with the Whitcomb Scholarships, the entire income
from $1,000 is given to a single student. But in most cases the in-
come is divided up as above indicated.

Loan Funds

Our experience with loan funds has been very interesting. There
are many who believe that the aid which colleges grant to students
should be in the nature of loans rather than beneficiary gifts, and
there are increasing numbers of students who seem to prefer to re-
ceive the money as loans. We have now six loan funds as shown in
the preceding table.

The Shcdd Fund, $10M0, The Shedd Fund is classed among
the endowment funds of the College. It is the gift of Messrs E. A.
and C. B. Shedd, of Chicago. Whereas the ordinary endowment fund.s
of the College arc invested in mortgages and real estate, the Shedd
Fund is invested In loans to students. It was established In 1902.
Since that time loans have been made from the Shedd Fund to
twenty-nine students. The amount of these loans was $2,543.50.
Eight of the loans, aggregating $010, have been repaid in full. There
were outstanding loans from the Fund at the 31st of August, 1906,
amounting to $1,933.50. In every case the Interest on the outstanding
loan has been paid up to July 1st, 1906. All of the loans are pro-
tected by Interest-bearing notes payable not later than two years
after the date of graduation. At the first of July each year the
Treasurer's office sends out statements of the amount of Interest due.
The Fund has been In operation too short a time to enable us to
Judge whether there will be any trouble in securing the payment of
interest or the payment of the loans when due. The experience to
date has been entirely favorable.

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The Gilchrist Banking Fund, $9,500. The Gilchrist Banking
Fund, $10,000 less an Inheritance tax of $500, was received by the
college May 23rd, 1906. No loans have as yet been made from It. The
following quotation from the will of Mrs. Ella Gilchrist Potter in-
dicates the purpose of this fund: "Also to the Trustees of Oberlln
College and their successors in Trust and perpetuity the sum of Ten
Thousand ($10,000) Dollars, which monies may be loaned to Indi-
gent, self-supporting young people of either sex who may be students
In said college, In such sums as their actual needs may demand,
such loans to be made by the Trustees on recommendation of the
President of said college and for time not exceeding five years. For
the use of monies so loaned, the borrower will pay the lowest legal
rate of interest as established by the laws of the State of Ohio. This
sum is given as a foundation for a memorial to my beloved father
and mother and called the Gilchrist Banking Fund for Students of
Oberlln College."

Scholarship Loan Fund. At the 31st of August, 1005, there were
outstanding loans from the Scholarship Ix)an Fund amounting to
$1,620 as reported by me In last year's report. During the year we
have made an effort to collect many of the outstanding pledges and
I am pleased to report that twenty-seven men who had previously
been helped from this Loan Fund have made payments during the
year amounting to $728.49. Of this amount $631 was for principal,
and $97.49 was for Interest. During the year thirteen new loans
were made from this Fund amounting to $413. Two of these loans,
amounting to $48, have been repaid. The net balance on hand In
the Scholarship Loan Fund at August 3l8t, 1906, was $395.49. Our
Committee has* been granting loans to the extent of $20 per semester
to such Juniors and Seniors as wished to receive assistance from the
college upon term bills and preferred to take the money In the form
of loans. Where the student has desired a larger loan than $40 per
year the case has been handled by the Shedd Fund rather than by
the Scholarship Loan Fund. The outstanding loans aggregated
$1,402 at August 31st, 1906. Practically all of this amount will be
repaid with Interest.

Other Funds, I reported carefully with reference to the Jones
Loan Fund, the May Moulton Ix)an Fund, and the Conservatory Ix)an
Fund In my report of last year. During the present year these funds
have been handled in the usual way, and It does not seem worth
while to make a detailed report upon each of them at this time.

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IV. OFFICIAL RECORDS AND STATISTICS

The Se<Tetary of the College Is the custodian of the official
records of the Board of Trustees and the Prudential Committee, and
an Important part of his work consists in the preparation of minutes
of the meetings of these two bodies and in issuing notifications cov-
ering actions taken at these meetings.

In the absence of Professor C. B. Martin I am this year carrying
the work of Clerk of the General Faculty and also of the College
Faculty.

The card catalogues of the alumni of the college, prepared two
years ago, are proving of very great service. These catalogues are
as follows: (1) an alphabetical catalogue of all alumni; (2) a geo-
graphical catalogue of living alumni ; and (3) a class catalogue ar-
ranged according to the years of graduation.

Vote for Alumni Trustees

I present herewith the results of the ballot for alumni trustee In
the year 1905, together with the results for the five preceding years.

1905

1904
P F

^1903

P F

1902

1901

1900

P* F
472

P F

A..

776

698

689

864

649

689

850 1097

221 255

310

118

813

320

4 a54

31 114

(J..

190

221

123

284

4 134

29 173

213

216

13«

230

4 98

16 235

E .

263

101

245

123

4 79

14 53

136

•

10 605

Others

115

179

Totals

950

1674

7K2

1623

773

1542

1516

920 1762

500 1366

*The results of the preliminary ballot for 1902 seem to have been lost.

In explanation of the above table it should perhaps be said that
we print upon the final ballot either five or six names, — five If there
is but one vacancy to be filled upon the Board, six if there are two
vacancies. The votes for the various candidates are tabulated under
the letters "A," *'B," "C' "D." *'E." and "F," candidate "A" In each
case being the retiring trustee. A study of the preliminary election
shows that scarcely more than half as many alumni participate In It
as In the final election ; also that the retiring trustee receives In al-

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most every case the renomlnatlon of nearly all the alumni who send
In their ballots. 1 have In a former report called attention to the
relatively small nimiber of nominating votes cast each year in the
nominating ballot for the candidates in the second, third, fourth, and
fifth places in the final ballot

Oberiln has reason to be pleased with the very great interest
shown by Its alumni in the election of the alumni representative upon
the Board of Trustees. I do not believe that there is another college
in the country with so large a body of alumni in which so large a per-
centage of the alumni actively participate in the election of alumni
trustee. During the year 1905-06, Mr. Leonard P. Wood, of Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, compiled statistics from seventy-three
colleges and universities, touching upon all phases of alumni represen-
tation in college government. There are only three colleges shown in
Mr. Wood's tables that seemed to have as large an alumni participa-
tion as Oberiln. These colleges were as follows : Trinity (College, 53
per cent; Williams College, 60 per cent; and Barnard Ck)llege, 66
per cent From 50 to 60 per cent of Oberlin's alumni have partici-
pated in the elections of the last five years. In 1905 the number was
1674 out of a total of 3304, slightly less than 51 per cent We estimate
that the number of electors in the fall of 1906 Is 3417, an,d on Novem-
ber 1st replies had been received from 1988 of this number, repre-
senting 60 per cent, of our total number of alumni.

This office seems the most natural place for the filing of miscel-
laneous statistics with reference to the general work of the Ck)llege.
The tables which follow contain many facts of general interest as
showing the progress of the work of the College In all its departments.

Officers and Teachers

The officers of instruction and government for the college year
of 1905-06 were as follows:

Professors 33

Associate Professors 6

Instructors 33

Tutors, Teachers, and Laboratory Assistants. . . 21

Librarians and Library Assistants 8

Gymnasium Directors and Assistants 9

Administrative Officers and Clerks 14

124

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Men

Wolnon

Total

125

148 REPORTS OF OFFICERS

The Increase over the preceding year is 14, the greater part of
the gain being in the number of appointments of the rank of In-
structor.

Degrees and Diplomas
The following degrees were conferred during the year 1905-06:

In Course:

Master of Arts (A.M.)

Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)

Bachelor of Music (Mus.B.)

Bachelor of Divinity (D.B.)

75 80 155

Upon Completion of Prescribed Work:

Master of Arts (A.M.) 3 0 3

Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph.B.). 10 1

In addition to the above there were twelve diplomas issued for
the completion of the work in the Teachers* CJourse In Physical Train-
ing. Eight of these diplomas were for the course for women and
four for the course for men. Seven of the women and one of the
men who received these diplomas were graduates in the class of 1906,

By special vote of the trustees the degree of Bachelor of Music
was granted to seventy-one graduates from the Conservatory of Music
in classes from 1873 to 1903. The recipients of these degrees w^ere
carefully selected by a special committee appointed by the CJonserva-
tory Faculty, and it is believed that in every case the present stand-
ard of literary and musical requirements for the Conservatory de-
gree has been fully met

The aggregate of all degrees and diplomas issued, not including
the seventy-one special degrees of the Conservatory of Music above
mentioned, was 171, the largest number In the history of the College.
The corresponding figures for the five preceding years are shown be-
low:

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1900-01 100

1901-02 102

1902-03 141

1903-04 136

1904-05 156

During the year one graduate of the former "Literary" course
forwarded to the Treasurer of the College the diploma fee of $5, and
received the degree of Bachelor of Letters (L.B.), a procedure author-
ized by the Board of Trustees under date of June 18, 1894.

There were no graduates from the Slavic Department in the
Theological Seminary.

The graduating class from Oberlin Academy included forty-two
men and twenty women, a total of sixty-two. This is the third year
of experience with the new plan of issuing diplomas of graduation to
those who complete the prescribed course of study in Oberlin Acad-
emy. The diplomas issued to Academy graduates during the two pre-
ceding years are shown below :

1903-04 34

1904-05 45

Summary of Degrees and Diplomas

The following table shows the total number of degrees and di-
plomas that have been issued since the founding of the Ck)llege, to
the date of October 1, 1906:

Degrees, in Course:

Bachelor of Arts ( A.B.) 2,352

Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph.B.) 308

Bachelor of Science (S.B.) 31

Bachelor of Music (Mus.B.) 18

2,709

Advanced Degrees, in Courses-
Bachelor of Divinity (D.B) 643

Master of Arts (A.M.) 604

Master of Science (S.M.) 2

1,249

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Diplomas:

Literary CJourse 067

Normal CJourse In Physical Training (Women) 85
Teachers' Course in Physical Training —

(four year course) 33

CJonservatory of Music 159

English Ck>urse, in Theological Seminary 69

Slavic Course, in Theological Seminary 20

1,283

Degrees issued to replace Diplomas:

Bachelor of Letters (L.B.) in place of Lit-
erary Ck)urse Diploma 162

Bachelor of Music (Mus.B.), in place of Con-
servatory Diploma 71

233 .

Honorary Degrees:

Master of Arts (A.M.) honorary 97

Master of Music (Mus.M. ) 1

Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) 25

Doctor of Laws (LL,D.) 14

Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) 1

Doctor of Music (Mus. D.) 1

Doctor of Literature (LittD.) 1

— 140

Grand total 5,614

General Enrolment 1905-06
The enrolment of students for the year 1905-06 as published In
the final edition of the catalogue last June reached the total of 1,771.
This total shows an increase of 56 over the preceding year, and
is the highest in the history of the College. In this total were counted
all students who had been In attendance at any time during the year.
In the Summer School of 1905 there were enrolled 69 students whose
names were not found elsewhere in the year's enrolment, and they
were included in the above total. The following table shows the num-
ber of students In each department, with the corresponding figures
for the three preceding years :

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151

1905-06

1904-05

1903-04

1902-08

297
62
74

197
0
12

682

417
0
489
149
27
57

1139

714
52
568
846
27
69

1771

294
51
77

214

1
15

652

876
0
472
148
24
48

1063

670

549

862

1715

279
86
97

176
2
21

611

354
0
482
129
22
20

1007

688
86
579
305
24
41

1618

267

175

556

811

462

155

958

The CoUesre

578

The Seminary

The Conservatory of Music......

The Academy

580
830

DrawinfiTftnd Painting

The Svmmer School

1609

Of the 1,771 students enrolled last year, 1,724 came from 47 states
and territories in the United States, and 47 came from 11 foreign
countries. The state of Ohio furnished 873 students, about 49.3 per
cent of the entire number. The other states which sent the largest
numbers of students were as follows :

Illinois 136

New York 96

Pennsylvania 89

Michigan 79

Indiana •. 69

Iowa 68

Students from Ohio

The proportion of Oberlln students w^ho come from the state of
Ohio has remained very nearly constant for the last ten years :

Total

1896-97 1283

1897-98 1310

1898-99 1208

1899-1900 1323

1900-01 1357

1901-02 1382

1902-03 1509

1903-04 1618

1904-05 1715

1905-06 1771

Total
om Ohio

Per cent,
from Ohio

645

50.27

680

51.91

603

49.92

659

49.81

682

50.25

689

49.85

756

50.10

825

50.99

877

51.14

873

49.30

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The Numher of Men in Oberlin

The relative number of men in the entire institution, also the rel-
ative number of men in the College department showed decided losses
last year. In the entire institution during the years 1903-04 and 1904-
05 It seemed that a gain was being made, but In the year 1905-06
there was both a relative and an actual decrease.

Entire Institumn: Number of ^^^^^^^^ pereentaire

1898-99 477 1203 39.49

1899-1900 524 1323 39.61

1900-01 532 1357 ' 39.20

1901-02 520 1382 37.35

1902-03 556 1509 36.85

1903-04 611 1618 37.76

1904-05 652 1715 38.02

1905-06 632 1771 35.69

A steady decrease in the relative number of men in the College
department during the last five years will be seen from the following
table, in spite of the fact that during the same time there has been
an Increase of 23 per cent in the total number of men enrolled.

Colleoe department: * * ^"^^;°' Enrolment Percenta,^.

1898-99 179 419 42.72

1899-1900 190 417 45.56

1900-01 197 428 46.03

1901-02 242 499 48.50

1902-03 267 578 46.19

1903-04 279 633 44.08

1904-05 294 670 ' 4^.88

1905-06 297 714 41.59

A further decrease in the relative number of men In the College
department seems to i)e promised for the year 1906-07. The figures
for the fall term show the enrolment of 310 men out of a total of
785, tlie percentage being thus seen to be 39.49.

Ain/i^cr of Colored Students in Oberlin

The Commissioner of Education, at Washington, requires a re-
port each year of the number of colored students In the Institution.
The following report covers the year 1905-06:

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Women

Total

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 153

Men

The CJollege 13

The Theological Seminary 3

The Conservatory of Music 6

The Academy 15

Drawing and Painting 0

37 45 82

Colored students formed 4.6 per cent, of the total enrolment
There are more colored students in the Academy than In any other
department. Here they constitute about 9 per cent of the total. Four
years ago there were 43 colored students In the entire Institution out
of a total of 1,382, the percentage being 3.1.

Enrolment Figures — Fall 1906

While this report is supposed to cover the College year of 1905-06,
it has seemed best to present also a statement of the enrolment for
the Fall term of the present year, corrected to the date of prepara-
tion of this report [November 1, 1906]. To the figures for this year
have been added the corresponding statistics for the preceding six
years.

Fall Fall Fall Fall Fall Fall Fall
1906 1905 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900.

The College:

Post-Graduate 20 20 14 13 13 5 5

Seniors 144 131 108 99 103 81 67

Juniors 143 138 131 110 102 86 83

Sophomores 169 162 154 139 139 117 97

Freshmen 253 196 191 220 174 163 142

College Specials .... 56 49 54 40 42 24 27

785 696 652 621 573 476 421

The Seminary 49 48 50 35 34 30 43

Conservatory of Music 480 466 455 456 395 386 353

The Academy 318 315 325 279 285 242 285

Drawing and Painting... 20 20 23 11 14 38 27

Totals 1652 1545 1505 1402 1301 1172 1129

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The gain in the College department, particularly in the number
of students registered in the Freshman class, is larger with one ex-
ception than has ever been recorded before. The gain over the sim-
ilar figure for last year is 89. The gain in the fall of 1902 in the
College department was 97.

Enrolment for Fifteen Years

The following chart shows the variations in enrolments during
the last fifteen years, beginning with 1891-92, the year in which the
count was first made by the College year Instead of the calendar year :

1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1906
-92 -93 -94 -95 -96 -97 -96 -99 1900 -01-02-03-04-05-06

1800

1700

1600

1400

1300

1200

1000

Statistics of Instruction in the College Department, Year 1905-06

As used in the following table, an "Instruction Unit" means the

instruction furnished to one student in recitations which are held

once a week for one semester — in other words, an "Instruction Unit"

represents one student in a one-hour course for one semester. To

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Illustrate — a five-hour course in Political Economy enrolling 55 stu-
dents is here counted as representing 275 instruction units; a three-
hour course in Surveying, enrolling 10 students, represents 30 in-
struction units. The table which follows shows the instruction fur-
nished during the year 1905-06, and I have added for comparison the
corresponding figures for the four preceding years. It will l>e under-
stood that the figures used in the table are compiled from the detailed
statistics printed at the back of this volume.

The column marked "hours of teachers' time" includes all the
time spent by the teachers, whether in class room recitations or in
laboratory Instruction.

In the two semesters of 1905-06 there were 271 classes as com-
pared to 254 last year. The total enrolment in these classes was

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7,479, so that the average per class was 27.6. The corresponding
average for last year was 27.4. This average number of students
per elass has not materially changed in the last four years.

The enrolment for 1905-06 shows an increase of about 6.5 per
cent over the enrolment of 1904-05, and a gain of this amount would
naturally be expected in the instruction furnished in each depart-
ment. In some departments, however, there have been increases in
excess of the normal percentage above mentioned. The greatest in-
creases in the amounts of instruction furnished were as follows:

Classical Archceology Ill per cent.

Anatomy 82

Teachers' Course in Physical Training 53 "

Physiology 22 "

Bible, Theology, and Evidences 20

Philosophy and Pedagogy 19 "

Bibliography 17

French 16

Oratory 16

Botany 14 "

Zoology . , 13

Latin 12

Physical Training (for Credit) 12

Physics 10 "

German 7 "

The amount of instruction furnished in Astronomy, Chemistry
and Mineralogy, English Composition, and English Literature re-
mained about the same as for the preceding year.

There was a slight loss in Mathematics, and considerable losses
in Economics, Sociology and Political Science, Geology, Greek, and
History.

The department of German again ranks first in the total amount
of instruction furnished.

In comparison with the corresponding figures of four years ago
(1901-02) there are the following striking increases in the amount of
instruction furnished:

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Anatomy 150 per cent

Botany 136

Astronomy 118 "

Classical Archaeology 106 "

English Composition 99

Physiology 92

French 77 "

Bible, Theology, and Evidences 68

German 68 "

Philosophy and Pedagogy 63 "

The gain in enrolment in the College department during the same
period of four years was 43.1 per cent.

Instruction Given in Oherlin Academy, Year 1905-06

The instruction furnished in Oberlln Academy during the year
1905-06 Is shown in the table which follows. The Academy is still
on the term plan and the table is figured accordingly. An Academy
instruction unit means the instruction furnished to one student in a
one-hour course for one term. It represents two-thirds of a College
instruction unit

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The total number of different classes taught In the Academy dur-
ing the year was 191 and the enrolment in them was 4,162, an aver-
age of 21.8 to each class.

There have been notable increases in the amount of Instruction
furnished in Botany, History, and Physics, and a slight gain in the
number of students electing Greek. There have been decided losses
in the amount of instruction furnished in German, Latin, and Math-
ematics. The number of students enrolled in the Academy during the
year 1905-06 was 346 as compared to 362 during the preceding year,
a decrease of 5 per cent. This amount of loss In the instruction
units furnished would naturally be expected.

V. THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

During the year the athletic teams were coached as follows : the
foot ball team by Mr. Richard M. Jones, a graduate of Oberlln in
the class of 1902 ; the basket ball team by Mr. Walter W. McKay, a
graduate from the C<»liege in the class of 1905; the track team by
Mr. Thomas F. Keane, of Boston ; the base ball team by Mr. Alpheus
H. Favour, a graduate of Amherst College.

The appointment of Mr. Charles W. Savage as Director of Ath-
letics meets a very great need. For the last eight years I have acted
as Graduate Manager for the Athletic Association, and have felt
each year that much of the work that was coming to me as Graduate
>Ianager should be attended to by some one under definite appoint-
ment as Director of Athletics. The Athletic Association handles
eight thousand dollars each year, and the responsibility for the cor-
rect use of so much money ought to rest primarily upon some one
who is appointed for that purpose by the Trustees and not upon the
Secretary of the College who Is giving his first thought to something
other than athletic aifairs.

The two great needs of our Athletic Association, mentioned by
me In my last two reports, are still unmet, and the urgency of the
needs becomes more and more apparent The first of these needs is
the completion of a new cinder track for the track team at Athletic
Park. The excavation and grading for the new track were completed
a year and a half ago at an expense of about $500. To complete the
track we need about eight Inches of broken stone and four Inches of
cinders, costing approximately $800. We have hoped that the broken
stone and debris from the new Chapel and the new Carnegie Library

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could be utilized in the construction of the new track, but the ath-
letic authorities are beginning to think that they cannot wait much
longer for this material. If we should purchase the stone necessary
for this part of the track it would probably mean an expenditure of
$500.

For two years we have had preliminary plans for a new grand-
stand at Dill Field, the second of the urgent needs. The stand, as
designed, will be covered, will be located on the west side of the
field, and will be able to seat 1,200 spectators. The cost will not be
less than $1,500. Of course the Athletic Association cannot face such
an expenditure as this at the present time, but it may be possible for
US" to organize a company composed of men interested In athletics
in Oberlin, to advance the money necessary for the construction, to
be repaid year by year from the extra receipts from the grandstand,
it was found possible to meet the entire expense of the grandstand
from the extra receipts in five years. The stand has now been turned
over to the O. S. U. Athletic Association.

The financial showing made by the athletic teams here during
the year 1905-OG was more favorable than during the preceding year,
as will be seen from the following table :

Foot ball season 1905, surplus $ 7.48

Base ball season 190G, deficit 130.81

Track team 1906, deficit 143.28

Basket ball season 1906, surplus 131.32

Interscholastic Meet, deficit 67.04

A benefit performance was again undertaken by the Athletic As-
Such an arrangement was carried out at Ohio State University, where
sociation to help meet its expenses, consisting of two Open-Air
Shakespeare plays given by the Ben Greet Company on Thursday,
June 21st. The net proceeds to the Athletic Association from these
plays was $381.56. Mr. Dill has again aided the Association by the
gift of $250.

The outstanding indebtedness August 31 st, 1905, was $1,330.55.
This was reduced during the season of 1905-06 to the extent of
$376.73, leaving the net indebtedness August 31st, 1906, $953.82.

The Athletic Association has been relieved of the support of the
Academy teams. By the new arrangement which was provided by
the trustees last fall the Academy authorities were authorized to col-
lect a yearly athletic fee of $2.00 from each young man in the Acade-

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my. As a result of one year of experience under this new arrange-
ment I have the impression that the Academy athletic teams are bet-
ter teams than they have ever been before, that they are more ade-
quately equipped with athletic supplies, that there is a better spirit
with reference to the teams on the part of the body of students In the
Academy, and that more and more of the men of the Academy are
receiving out-of-doors exercise under comi)etent 8ui>ervisIon. The
coach of the Academy teams, Mr. Ellis, has worked In cordial co-
operation with the management of the varsity teams, and the Acade-
my teams have shared in the uses of Athletic Park and Dill Field.
There are so many base ball teams In need of practice grounds, in-
cluding Varsity, Academy, and class teams, that the old base ball
field at Athletic Park has proved entirely too small. As a third
rather urgent need I might mention that of additional base ball prac-
tice grounds. These could be secured by the purchase of the large
field lying directly north of Dill Field and west of the Athletic Park,
at an expense of $500.

Respe<'t fully submitted,

GEORGE M. JONES.

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Report of the Librarian

To the President:

Sib — I herewith submit the report of the Library for the year
1905-06.

GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY

At the beginning of the year the library catalogues rec?orded 67,-
554 bound volumes, and there were 39,987 unbound volumes unacces-
sioned but catalogued, making an aggregate of 107,541 volumes. Dur-
ing the year, 5,006 bound volumes were entered upon the accession
book, and 670 pamphlets were added to the catalogued pamphlet col-
lection. This makes the numl)er of library volumes which are en-
tered in our catalogues, September Ist, 1906, 72,560 bound volumes
and 40,677 unbound volumes, a total of 113,237 volumes. The fol-
lowing table shows the addition by college years since 1901-02 :

Bound Unbound Total

1901-02 5,391 1,568 6,959

1902-03 3,833 1,292 5,125

1903-04 5,120 1,581 6,701

1904-05 3,816 3,236 7,152

1905-06 5,006 670 5,676

It will be seen from the above that while the number of bound
volumes added during the past year is almost equal to our best record,
the number of unbound volumes added is exceedingly small. This is
more apparent than actual, since the work of the summer, owing to
the European trip of the head cataloguer, was not revised until the
beginning of the new school year, and therefore will l>e included in
the count for the current year. Had this work been revised, and
therefore been counted in last year's work, the aggregate would have
fully equalled that of the year before.

CONDITION OF THE LIBRARY SEPT. IST, 1906

The above record deals only with the catalogued volumes belong-
ing to the library, but in addition to this, the library has many pos-
sessions not yet entered on our records, or in any way catalogued.
As a more nearly complete statement of the extent of the possessions
of the library, the following table is given ;

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Bound Unbound Total

Catalogued 72,560 40,677 113,237

Waiting 46,233 45,233

Newspapers (vols. In temporary bind-
ers) 1,500 1.500

Maps and Charts (estimated) 2,600 2,600

Manuscripts (10,000 pieces in 50 *

pamphlet boxes) 50 50

Misc. articles. Coins, Photographs, etc.,

(estimated) 500 500

Total 72,560 90,560 163,120

To this should be added the U. L. A. Library, now numbering
14,204 bound volumes. In addition, the College Library now owns
more than 49,0(X) duplicate books and pamphlets, from which, by ex-
change with other libraries, it is likely to receive a considerable in-
crease in future years.

ADDITIONS OF THE YEAB

The 5,(X)6 l)ound volumes added during the year came from the
following sources: By purchase, 1,895 volumes; by gift, 2,996 vol-
umes; by exchange, 115 volumes. It will be seen that, as in former
years, the library has profited greatly by the generosity of friends.
Without this generosity, it would be Impossible for us to make the
rapid growth which has been characteristic of the past few years.
These friends who have thus helped us are so numerous as to make
it impossible to mention any considerable number of their donations
in this report Some of the more Important donors deserve special
mention :

From Mr. Chas. M. Hall, our Trustee, was received a gift of
$500.00, with which was purchased a complete set of Crelle*s Journal
fiir die Relne und Angewandte Mathematik, a most valuable addition
to the resources of the Department of Mathematics.

Through the solicitation of Professor E. A. Miller, a large num-
ber of school book publishers presented their entire list of school
books for the use of students In the courses In Pedagogy. . The Amer-
ican Book Company, Glnn & Co., Maynard Merrill & Co., Silver, Bur-
dett & Co., Scott, Foresman & Co.. D. C. Heath & Co., and the Mac-
mlllan Co., all gave most valuable additions in connection with

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this movement It is the hope of the Department of Pedagogy that
there may be ultimately available for consultation by prospective
teachers all the important text books published by school book pub-
lishers in this country.

The Albert Teachers Agency, of Chicago, has sent us throughout
the year a large number of the more important educational periodicals
of the United States.

The New York State Library, besides its usual numerous gifts
of Its own publications, and those of the State Museum, sent us a set
of the very valuable report and accompanying testimony of the Com-
mittee engaged In the investigation of the New York Life Insurance
Companies.

Mr. M. C. Williams, who has for many years been identified with
Y. M. C. A. work, presented to us many bound volumes of the "Young
Men's Era," and the "Watchman," thus greatly adding to the com-
pleteness of our sets of these periodicals.

Mrs. A. M. H. Myers sent us a large number of valuable books,
pamphlets and manuscripts from the library of her husband, Mr.
Joel Myers, for many years a resident of Oberlin. This gift was par-
ticularly valuable in the literature of political campaigns. It added
largely to our sets of the World Almanac and the Tribune Almanac,
and furnished a goodly number of the earlier volumes of the Annual
Encyclopedia. We still lack, however, the volumes from 1872-1876,
and it is to be hoped that some friend possessed of these volumes may
feel disposed to complete our set.

Miss E. B. Dickinson, of Romeo, Mich., presented us with a large
number of books from her library, including a complete set of the
Missionary Review of the World.

Mr. George A. Mosher, Superintendent of the Children's Home,
gave us a large box of State Documents and miscellaneous publica-
tions, nearly all of which were additions to our sets.

From Mr. J. J. Dixon, through his daughter. Miss Mabel Dixon,
there was received a large collection of books and magazines.

From Miss Mary J. Shafer, a large number of Theological and
other books, most of which proved to be additions.

Our Trustee, Mr. Irving W. Metcalf, gave us more than a hun-
dred books, and a great quantity of magazines and newspapers,
among which was a nearly complete set of the "Booklover's Maga-
zine,** which was especially welcome.

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The Carnegie Institution at Washington presented us with a col-
lection of its publications, so far as the same are now in print, and
has placed us on its mailing list to receive future issues. The value
of the publications of the Institution is so great that this is a most
welcome arrangement

Harlan F. Burkett, Esq., of the Class of '82, sent us a number of
unique items, including an edition of Plutarch's Lives, published in
1076; the Universal Classic Manuscripts, facsimiles of the handwrit-
ing of famous persons, and an interesting manuscript volume ap-
parently written by a student in the University of Glasgow, at)out the
year 1776.

Mr. C. J. Dole, of the Theological Class of 1889, sent us a box
of books, many of which were additions.

Mrs. J. B. Vincent, of Oberlin, presented us with a large number of
current school books, thus adding to the completeness of our al-
ready large and interesting collection of these publications.

H.' N. niginbotham, of Chicago, sent us a copy, in' magnificent
binding, of the History of the World's Columbian Exposition, which
was published at the conclusion of that great World's Fair.

Dr. Samuel A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, remembered us, as in former years, with the publications of
the Peabody and the Slater Funds, and some fifty other valuable
pamphlets and books.

One of the most highly valued additions of the year came from
our Trustee, Mr. Chas. Finney Cox, of New York, being a copy of
the Latin Bible published by Anthony Koburger, of Nuremberg, in the
year 1478. This book antedates by three years any volume which up
to that time was in possession of the library.

Mr. Thomas A. Hali, of the Class of 1872, through his brother.
Prof. L. B. Ilall, presented the Library with a large number of im-
portant and valuable works on English History, including the illus-
trated editions of Traill's Social England, and of Green's History of
the English People, Bartholomew's Atias of Great Britain, Bell's Ca-
thedral Series, the Ward, Lock & Co. Guides, and many others.

Rev. L. F. Bickford, Ph.D., of the Class of 1868, presented us
with a number of valuable Theological works, among them several
volumes of the valuable commentaries upon the Epistles of Paul, by
Ellicott.

Miss Marion Metcalf, formerly of Elyria, now of Oberlin, gave

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us several hundred books and some thousands of magazines. Among
the books received in this gift were several of considerable rarity,
such as Agassiz's Lake Superior, Bigelow's B'lorula Bostonensis, and
Rider's reprint of an important pamphlet, by Roger Williams.

Through Mr. L. D. Woodruff, of the Class of 1004, there were re-
ceived a large number of valuable lx)oks from the library of Rev.
Lyman S. Rowland, for many years pastor of the church at Lee,
Mass., which were presented to the Library by Mrs. Rowland.

From Professor and Mrs. H. H. Wright, Fisk University, Nash-
ville, Tenn., there were received two large boxes containing many
numbers of Harper's Weekly, the Semi-Weekly New York Tribune,
and various magazines. This gift has had esi)ec!ul interest for the
Librarian in that it was sugijested tlirough a reference to a somewhat
similar gift in the last Annual Report.

From this review of the principal donors, it will be seen that a
large number of Alumni residing outside of Oberlin have had the
library in mind. This is, to the Librarian, one of the most hopeful
features of the situation. Witli as large a constituency in ail the
states of the Union as the library i))ssesses, tliere ought to come to
the library very important acciuisitions, particularly of local his-
tory and state documents, if the Alumni of the institution can only
be interested in the development of the lil)rary. When the new build-
ing is completed, and we are in a ix)sition to solicit gifts upon a more
extended scale, the Librarian hopes, by circulars and otherwise, to
greatly increase this interest among the Alunnii, whicli seems to him
one of the most hopeful fields for the future growth of the library.

Imiwrtaut exchanges of duplicate material in the iKJSsession of
the library have been carried on during the year with the Library of
Congress, New York Public Library, and the Library of the State of
Massachusetts. From this latter library we received a large number
of exceedingly valuable state reports, and a still larger number of
pamphlets relating to public questions, which have proven themselves
of very great use during the current year.

During the year under discussion, the appropriation of the Trus-
tees available for the purchase of new books was again increased to
$1,500.00, which, with the income of our funds and with the gifts
of friends, made the total amount expended for new books and peri-
odicals somewhat more than $3,000.00. This is a very great gain
over former years, and has enabled the Library Committee to appro-
priate sums, in no case less than $75,00, against which the various

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departments could order books. This sum, however, Is entirely Inade-
quate to meet the demand. With the rapid growth of the college,
there has come the necessity, to meet the needs of the larger classes,
of considerable duplication of books. This seldom exceeds three
copies of a book, but occasionally rises to five. It will be seen that
if only three or four books are thus duplicated in order to meet the
necessities of the larger classes, a very large part of the depart-
mental appropriation is thus consumed in what really adds but
little to the available literature on the subject This duplication
is kept, of course, within very rigid limits, and yet It seems to be
one of the inevitable necessities of our growth. We ought to have
not less than $5»000.00 per year available for the purchase of new
books and i>eriodicals. In other libraries of the State, for exam-
ple, at the Library of the State University, the sum available for
this purpose is now $10,000.00 per year, and will probably soon be
increased to $15,000.00. If Ol)erlin, with quite as large a number
of college students, is to be able to do the same grade of work as
these competing institutions, it must have a similar equipment
The new library endowment is not likely to much more than meet
the increased cost of running the new building and providing the
additional force necessary for administration. At the most, we
cannot hope for more than $1,000.00 a year additional for book pur-
chases from this source. Wliat peems to be Imperatively needed Is
the gift of a sum at least equal to that raised last year, $100,000.00,
tlie income of which shall be available exclusively for book purchases
This, with tlie sum we now have on hand, would In «^ few years
Rreatly enlarge the facilities available for the Faculty. As it is at
I)resent, we are able to do comparatively little for them, as the great
part of the sums available for each department simply meets student
needs. As I suggested In my last report, If some generous friend
could be found who would give us $10,000.00 a year for five years,
to put the library in condition so that it might meet the demands of
the Faculty it would be of unspeakable value to the work of the in-
stitution.

WORK OF THE YEAB

During the year the library was open 30G days. The total num-
l)er of readers for the year was 130,378, as compared with 118,492 for
the previous year. The smallest attendance In any one day was 25
(Aug. 30th), and the largest 836 (Dec. 4th). The average dally at-

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tendance during the school year, including the Christmas and Easter
vacations, was more than 600; during the Summer School 125, and
during the remainder of the summer vacation 30. The following
table shows the attendance and averages by months for the year. It
will be observed that taking every day of the year into account, the
average attendance was 445.6 :

Momiiur Afternoon Eveninsr

Total

Avff.

Total

Avff.

Total

Avff.

Total

Avff.

1905 September

2122

81.6

1790

68.8

934

36.9

4848

186.4

October

6648

213.3

4479

172.2

4011

164.2

14038

539.9

November

6006

240.2

6376

217.

3948

157.9

16829

618.1

December

4641

186.6

4229

169.1

2331

98.2

11201

448.

1906 January

5440

217.6

5471

218.8

8688

143.8

14494

579.7

February

4966

216.5

4815

209.3

3186

188.4

12966

546.9

March

6254

231.6

5970

221.1

3836

142.4

16069

594.7

April

5928

287.1

6389

218.5

4317

172.6

16684

621.3

May

6659

246.6

5428

201.

5280

196.5

17367

643.2

June

8887

149.6

3288

124.6

2206

84.8

9380

358.8

July

1699

67.9

1591

63.6

8290

181.1

AUflTUBt

906

83.5

978

36.2

1884

69.7

64046 48703 33629 136378 445.6

The number of persons drawing books for home use during the
year was 1270. The number of books drawn for circulation outside
the building was 18,202, as compared with 15,614 the previous year.
The great pressure in the reading room during the evening has
brought about the distribution of the work more evenly over the en-
tire day, but it is still frequently impossible to find seats during the
evening hours. Although the Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds and the Librarian have spent much time in endeavoring to
find some workable and not too expensive plan for improving the
ventilation of the reading room, it has not seemed feasible to make
any change, as the expense Involved was so great as to be hardly
warranted for the few years of occupancy which remain. This is
greatly to be regretted, as the ventilation of the room, especially dur-
ing the crowded evening hours, is about as bad as It could possibly be.

During the year the cataloguing department catalogued 4,727
bound volumes, and 670 unbound volumes, and as suggested in an
earlier paragraph, this does not include the work of the summer,
which, owing to the absence of the head cataloguer, was not revised
and passed upon until after the beginning of the present school year.
The work included in this report required the preparation of 10,775
new cards for the catalogue, while 2,577 cards, previously written,
were withdrawn from the catalogue In order to receive additions or
corrections.

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During the spring and summer, tlie uncatalogued pamphlets,
which have heretofore been arranged on the shelves in no order, and
therefore have been entirely unusable, were arranged roughly by
the .first letter of the author entry, and marked In such a way that
whenever our less experienced help is available for such purposes,
the work of sub-dividing and bringing them into strictly alphabetical
order can be completed. When this is done, it will be possible for us,
as additions or continuations come in, to search in the uncatalogued
pamphlets, and add, at the same time, any of the same set which may
be found there, and thus, in time, to reduce the number of uncata-
logued pamphlets to those requiring individual treatment Mean-
while, these latter are a little more available, being In an alphabet-
ical order, than they would have been in the disordered condition in
which they were formerly kept The number of these uncatalogued
pamphlets, which we had been very conservatively estimating at 20,-
000, proved to be somewhat in excess of 42,000, but it Is probable that
there is a large amount of duplicate material in the collection which,
when the alphabetical arrangement is completed, can be eliminated.

All the work of the year has been carried on under the greatest
difficulties, owing to the crowded condition of the building. It is
almost impossible to insert new books in their places, and every de-
vise has been resorted to in order to make room for the new addi-
tions as they come in. Every makeshift arrangement adds to the
difficulty of locating books when called for, and especially increases
the difficulty on the part of the public in finding books for themselves.
There seems to be no remedy for the present situation until we enter
the new building, but it should not be forgotten by the users of the
library that the stafiP works under increasing difficulties, and that
the same force under the present conditions, can accomplish much
less work than they could under conditions as they were.

THE NEW BUILDING

During the year the plans have been in preparation for the new
building. Messrs. Patton and Miller, of Chicago, were selected as
architects, and after many conferences with the Librarian, they have
prepared plans which have met with approval and specifications
have been drawn up and submitted to contractors. The plans con-
template upon the ground floor a large entrance and lobby, from
which open a room for the general public, where literature, travel
and biography will be available ; a reference room, especially intended

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to meet the wants of Academy students, students in the public
schools, and the general public ; a children's room and a room for the
U. L. A. Library. In addition to these public rooms, there are un-
packing rooms, an accession room and a bindery, a cloak room, and
toilet rooms for men and women. The second story contains the main
reading room, which wHl be 132x47, and will seat 268 readers; ad-
joining this, a smaller room, 44x26, and seating 25 people, which will
contain current periodicals and the card catalogue. This latter is
arranged so that the drawers may be withdrawn also from the cata-
loguing room, thus greatly facilitating the insertion of new cards
in the catalogue. Other rooms on this floor are the Librarian's pub-
lic office, private office, cataloguing room, a room where the biblio-
graphical collections of the library will be gathered, convenient alike
to the Librarian, the order department, the cataloguing department
and the general public. The third story will contain four seminar
rooms, and the fourth story thirteen. On all floors will be found the
stack room, which will have six stories, and accommodate 200,000
volumes. The building as planned is nearly 25% smaller than at first
proposed, and yet In spite of this reduction, and largely on account
of the high prices of building material, the bids received at the first
taking of bids exceeded the amount available by some $25,000.00.
All bids have been rejected, and new bids will be received about the
1st of January. It does not seem de'sirable to reduce the size of the
building, as it is now planned not greatly in excess of the probable
first demand, and will of course, with each succeeding year, prove less
adequate to meet the current demand. The building is so planned
as to make possible additions to the stack and work rooms, and to
the seminar rooms, and also, by comparatively inexpensive modifica-
tions, can be arranged so as to give some fifty or more seats addi-
tional for the general reading room, whenever an extension is made.
The building can of course be made smaller If, when the second bids
are taken, the sum still proves to be greater than the amount avail-
able for the library ; but If this course Is adopted, It will only be a
few years before the building will prove to be Inadequate for the
current demand, and it would seem a pity not to build It with ref-
erence to what seems to be the reasonable future development of the
library. The completion of the $100,000.00 endowment fund Is a mat-
ter for great congratulation, because It makes possible the meeting of
the increased expense which will be Involved In the new building,
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the same time, it should be recognized by friends of the College that
this $100,000.00, if used exclusively for the running expenses of the
library, will not half meet the annual expense, and that therefore
another $100,000.00, added to it, available for current expenses, would
be of the greatest possible aid to the College, and would free a cor-
responding amount of income, now required for library expenses,
for the many other pressing needs of the institution. As I have said
at an earlier point in this report, more funds are also needed for book
purchases, and it is evident that any friend of the College who is
interested in the development of its efficiency as an intellectual Insti-
tution, can do no greater service than by providing Increased endow-
ment for library purposes.

This survey of the year reveals many things for which there is
great occasion for thankfulness. The endowment available for li-
brary purposes is now in amount almost equal to that which was
possessed by the institution for all purposes in 1876, and yet the li-
brary's immediate needs are seen to call for as much as the entire
sum which 30 years ago was thought to be sufficient for the entire
institution. This perhaps is but an indication of the rapid develop-
ment which is going on, and an indication of what may be looked for
in the future. In closing, I wish to express my especial thanks for
the cordial help which has been received from all members of the
staff during the present year,- under circumstances which are in-
creasingly difficult, and which render satisfactory work almost im-
possible. Respectfully submitted,

AZARIAH S. ROOT.

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Report of the Dean of the Theological
Seminary

To the President:

Sib — The year 1905-06 closed with the graduation of nineteen
men, the largest class, with one exception, in the last sixty years.
Of these all but two were college graduates and these two were
graduates of other professional schools before they came to us. The
total attendance at present is fifty-one, three more than at the same
time last year. The numl)er in the regular course is forty, one
more than at the same time last year. They are classified as fol-
lows :

Juniors 11 (Including one man whose senior year in college is
also his junior year in the Seminary.)

Middlers 14 (including two men whose college work will be com-
pleted in the course of the year. )

Seniors 15.

Seven men have joined the senior class this fall. Four of them
had been in the Seminary before and are now returning after an
absence to resume their course. Three are new men coming for the
first time. This increase in the senior class testifies to the attractive-
ness of the course in Theology which is the central feature of the
senior year. The Slavic department has increased from five to
eight The students come from twenty-one colleges and belong to
five denominations. The number in attendance is gratifying when
it is remembered that so large a class was graduated last spring. It
could have been somewhat increased if we had been willing to offer
to prospective students the free beneficiary aid to be had in other
Seminaries. I am Informed that several students from a single one
of the colleges that naturally send some of their students to us,
selected another seminary because of such aid. We are well satis-
fied, however, to continue our policy of giving our students an oppor-
tunity to earn the most of what they need by doing mission work.
We believe that the effect of this policy upon the students that do
come to us justifies its continuance. The fund from which to pay
for the services of students doing this work continues to be our
most pressing need.

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The opportunities for doing mission work have decidedly
increased this last year. An entirely new field close at hand has
recently come Into existence. Thousands of foreigners have, during
the last few years, come to Lorain. Among the young men of this
foreign population we now have four students at work. The students
have organized classes in English and, through these classes, have
established a helpful, natural relationship with the workmen which
can be utilized for all good purposes. Mr. Watts Pye of the Senior
class, who goes out to China next year, has brought the Lorain
work to its present stage of development He counts his experience
there a very valuable part of his preparation for foreign mission
work. Inquiries for men are beginning to come. from the growing
lx)pulation in Elyria, and Cleveland is a field in which we shall be
able to work more and more. One man, this present year, is gaining
valuable experience in Cleveland. This practical experience is not
gained at the sacrifice of scholarly attainment. I do not remember
a time when the students have worked harder in their classes and
have secured better results in scholarship. It is becoming more and
more evident that we have in Oberlin the combined advantages of the
quiet, country Seminary and the city Seminary in touch with practical
life.

Since my last report the Slavic department has received an endow-
ment which will enable it to receive twelve or fourteen student*',
i'rofessor Miskovsky is selecting these students with the utmost care.
I feel that so long as this department is so closely connected with
the Seminary, its meml)ership should not be allowed to become an
undue proportion of the entire Seminary attendance. If the Interests
of the Slavic work should ever suffer from such limitation, some
separation of the department from the Seminary might be called for.

Professor Swing has returned to the Seminary to take up his
work with vigor after a year of travel and study abroad. The Fac-
ulty is also strengthened by Professor Fullerton's acceptance of the
permanent apiK)iutment to the Chair of Old Testament Language and
Literature.

A janitor has been employed to give his entire time to the care
of Council Ilall. This arrangement will enable us to keep the building
in better order than it has been iwssible to secure in the past. It
will be necessary before long to renovate the building thoroughly.

A review of the past few years shows that the Seminary is mak-
ing substantial progress. Our graduates are called for everywhere.

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I think that our students leave the Seminary with the assurance that
they have fairly viewed all sides of modem theological thought, and
with a profound, Intelligent enthusiasm for the preaching of the
Gospel. One-third of the members of the three classes the present
year are student volunteers.

A solid foundation has been laid for certain additions to the
curriculum of the Seminary, which ought soon to be made and
which will require some increase of our endowment
Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD I. BOSWORTH.

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Report of the Dean of College and
Graduate Men

To the President:

Sib — ^The enrolment of men in the Ck>llege department for the
year 1905-06 was 297, classed as follows :

Graduates 15

Seniors 57

Juniors ' 59

Sophomores 62

Freshmen 89

Specials 15

Total 297

This total is nearly the same as that for the previous year, show-
ing an increase of three. The number of men in the Freshman class
is 89, the number of men in the entering class for the past six years
has been 83, 85, 81, 94, 85, and 89. These figures indicate that while the
numbers in the institution have made considerable increase, the num-
ber of men entering the Freshman class each year has varied but lit-
tle for the past six years. The number of Freshman men enrolled
this fall, however, is 109, showing a decided increase over any pre-
vious year.

Nineteen men, classed as follows, left college during the year.
This is a larger number than Is usual.

Freshman 10

Specials 3

Sophomores 1

Juniors 3

Seniors 2

Total 19

Seven of these men have entered college again this fall. The
reasons for leaving are given below :

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5 — Sickness.

9 — Work of various kinds.

4 — Dropped — disciplinary reasons and poor scholarship.

1 — Removal of family to another college town.

The five cases of sickness included one case of typhoid, one of
pneumonia, one of partial nervous breakdown, one of eye trouble, and
one withdrawal because of sickness and death at home.

Letters of honorable dismissal were granted this fall to eighteen
men, sixteen of these are going to other schools, two are working
and hope to return.

The total number of men enrolled in the Freshman, Sophomore,
Junior classes and as Special students for 1905-06 was 221. Of this
number 51 are not enrolled in college this fall.

This shows a loss of 23% of the men who might be expected to
continue their work here.

These figures include those given in the two preceding statements.
The reasons as I have ascertained them are as follows :
20 — Attendance at other schools.

3 — Dropped during year, scholarship and disciplinary reasons.
6 — Asked not to return, scholarship and disciplinary reasons.
16 — At home or working.
5 — Reasons unknown.
1 — Death. #

These 51 men were classed as follows :

Specials 13

Freshmen 26

Sophomores 9

Juniors 4

Total 51

We have received from other colleges this fall
6 — Sophomore men
2 — Junior men.
2 — Senior men.

Total— 10

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The total number of students In the college department and the
percentage of men since 1901-02 Is as follows :

Year Total Men Percentage

1901-02 499 242 48.5

1902-03 578 267 46.2

1903-04 633 279 44.1

1904-05 670 294 43.9

1905-06 714 297 41.6

The figures for the fall semester of the current year, which I In-
clude for comparison, are :

1906-07 785 310 39.5

While the total number of men has steadily Increased the relative
proportion has as steadily decreased. As I talk with the men con-
cerning their work, I find that an Increasing number have pretty defi-
nite Ideas of preparation for a vocation. If the college expects to
hold these men until graduation It must more and more adapt the
college work of the Junior and Senior years to preparing for specific
vocations and offer work that articulates with the technical and pro-
fessional school.

This Is a problem that we have In common with every college,
but It Is a problem that offers an opportunity. An Increasing num
her of men who are preparing for business, technical, and profes-
sional careers wish to avail themselves of the advantages of a col-
lege education, but wish during their college years an opportunity to
select courses that have direct bearing on their chosen vocations. Un-
less the liberal arts college Is prepared to surrender a large number
of these desirable students to the technical and professional schools
It must therefore shape Its courses to meet their needs. The addition
of some shop work and technical courses and courses that aid In
preparation for Law and Medicine would do much In our own case to
attract and hold men here.

There are some who feel that this Is not properly the work of the
college, that the aim of the college course should be solely the attain-
ment of culture and character. Professor Dewey has pointed out that
character Involves not only right Intentions but a certain degree of
efficiency, and I certainly believe that the college must seriously con-
sider the question of making Its graduates efficient In the various
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directly on life's vocations. It is Professor Dewey again who re-
minds tliose who look askance at the so-called practical courses that
are finding their way Into the college curricula that "the assump-
tion that a training is good in general just in the degree in which it
is good for nothing in particular is one for which It would be diflS-
cult to find any adequate philosophic grounds."

The college ought to welcome men who have definite vocations
in mind and attempt as far as it can do so to give them the very
best preparation for their vocations. Much of this work, if it is to
be the best preparation, must be general and cultural, but part of it
ought to be definite and special, that the student may feel that his
college work has vital connection with his life work.

Last year was my third year of work with the men. These three
years have given me an acquaintance with all the men in collie and
it Is my firm belief that there has never been a time when the relation
that exists between students and faculty has been better than it
now is.

I have known something of Oberlln for the past twenty-four
years. During thirteen years of this time I have been in Oberlin, six
years as a student in the Academy and College, one year as a stu-
dent after a lapse of eight years, three years as Superintendent of
Schools here and three years in my present position, and I feel sure
that there has never been a time during these years when there has
been a more wholesome, sane, and healthy spirit, a more serious atten-
tion to college work or higher moral ideals among the men than now
prevails.

It seems to me that there is much more of personal contact be-
tween members of the faculty and students, and of individual aid
than when I was a student. I realize that I am looking at it from
a different standpoint, but I cannot believe that the college faculty
to-day seems to the college student the distant reserved, and some-
what formidable body that it appeared to the student body that I
knew. I believe the faculty influence amoni; the students for
good has never been greater though it manifests Itself quietly and
in personal contact and friendship.

There have been a few cases of discipline during the year, but
none in which we felt moral questions were involved. With the
exception of three men who were' dropped for general ineflaciency
and Inattention to college duties, I believe that all the men who were

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in any way under discipline are now in college— doing good work,
and friendly and loyal to the college and the administration.

The question of dropping the rule requiring church attendance
has been under consideration for two years both by the Committee of
the Deans and the Committee on Discipline, and the unanimous de-
cision of each committee was that the time had come when it
seemed wise to recommend to the faculty that the rule be dropped.
This recommendation I may say has been acted on this fall. The
reasons that weighed with the committees and the faculty you have
stated so clearly in the Alumni Magazine that 1 need not repeat
them here.

Ol)erlln In common with many other schools has found It advisa-
ble to reduce the number of rules applying to personal conduct, not
because her Ideals are less high than formerly but because there is a
changed view of discipline in the home, In the school, and gradually
in the college, that makes it seem wise to place the responsibility for
persona] conduct more and more upon the individual, and that realizes
that only by the exercise of such responsibility can any growth In
character result. President E. Benjamin Andrews in a recent article
says: "The student government movement has in one particular
wrought great good, namely, by emphasizing as a ground to the de-
mand for right conduct in students not fussy rules but social and
public spirit, regard for the common weal. Since this change college
pranks are less popular and bid fair to disappear. It Is more and
more recognized that only doings constituting good form at home are
good form at college, no separate college code being defended. . . .
Specifically 'college* rules seem arbitrary to students and most of
them are somewhat so. College rules should be few, brief and prefer-
ably unwritten, being the ordinary dictates of propriety and breeding
as they obviously apply to the circumstances."

For a good many years the college has been approaching this
standard in its regulations. Oberlin has always said, and never
more clearly than now, that the student must be first a citizen and a
gentleman, and as such must be amenable to law and order and
must observe the ordinary dictates of propriety and breeding.

We have never admitted that the college student, as a college
student, was privileged to indulge In lawless pranks or disorder,
but have insisted that the same law applied to him that applied
to any citizen.

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I believe that this principle is true and fundamental in college
government While It Is true that this principle will not work both
ways, still the college ought to recognize that except for certain
limitations of age and environment it does so work, and the college
ought therefore to be very careful not to ask the student to abide
by an artificial code that has no validity outside of college walls.
The rules for the government of men are few and brief.

I feel myself that the existence of any regulation which can
be violated with comparative impunity and Infractions of which
are only discovered accidentally or through a system of espionage,
has in it elements of danger.

The movement among the students toward the organization of
some group of students that might meet representatives of the Fac-
ulty In the discussion of matters of common Interest culminated
this fall in the adoption of a constitution for a student senate and
the election of the members.

I believe this affords to faculty and students an opportunity
for co-operation and mutual helpfulness of no small value.

Last year an informal conference was held between half a dozen
members of the Faculty and a dozen or more men of the institution.
This meeting, I know, was a valuable one for the members of the
Faculty and the students. There was free exchange of opinions, a
frank discussion of diflTerent standpoints, of various difficulties.
Both faculty members and students gained a good deal of information
that was new, and an Increased respect for and confidence in one an-
other.

While it Is too early to prophesy what this organization may
accomplish, we ought to welcome any movement that helps the
students to feel that they are a vital part of the college, with some
responsibility for Its welfare and some voice In Its administration.

I do not believe in student government, for many reasons, which
I need not enter upon here, but I do heartily believe In perfectly free
discussion between students and Faculty and a utilization of the stu-
dent spirit and sentiment to attain desirable ends.

I regret to report that Aubrey Crandell, a special student of
Junior rank, was drowned during the summer.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD A. MILLER.

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Report of the Women*s Department

To the President:

Sib — The general condition of the Women's Department has been
very similar to preceding years. Our situation in regard to boarding
houses has not been improved. One large house belonging to the col-
lege, which has formerly been occupied by young women, Is now to be
utilized for recitations. Mrs. Frederick Webster, who has been one
of our matrons for several years, is building a beautiful home on
South Professor Street, at the head of Elm Street, which, when com-
I)leted, will accommodate .thirty-six women, and will so be a material
help in our problem. Otherwise, in spite of several changes among
the matrons, about the same houses are in use as in preceding years.

Two changes have been made in our regulations, taking effect
this fall: young women are no longer forbidden to walk with men
during the evening recreation hour before half-past seven ; and attend-
ance at church services is no longer compulsory for College and Con-
servatory students. Both of these rules have been rescinded because
we believe it safe to trust our students with the larger lll)erty.

The enthusiastic support which the young people give to the vol-
untary services on Sunday led us to believe that the religious life
and interest would not decline If all compulsion were withdrawn, but
that perhaps the services would come to mean even more to them.
In regard to the walking rule, it seemed l>est to appeal to
the Individual young woman's sense of propriety and to public senti-
ment, to prevent careless or improper conduct upon the streets
and any resorting to out-of-the-way places during the early evening,
rather than to hold to a rule which seemed unreasonable to many of
our most loyal students, because of the entire absence of anything
inherently objectionable in such recreation, during the hour when
calls are allowed and when study is not expected.

It is too early to determine the results of these changes; so far
the indications are that there will be no great difference in the actual
practices and habits, but an improvement In the feeling and the at-
titude of the students.

The Student Government Idea was introduced into Oberlln some
years ago by the organization of the House Government Association,
which has taken the- responsibility for the maintenance of quiet and

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the enforcement of the ten o'clock rule In the college halls and
three of the largest boarding houses. The Women's Board of the
Conservatory has also rendered large service in this direction, as
the Dean of the Ck)nservatory points out In her report

Last spring the request came from some of the Senior women
that the House Government Association be reorganized and its scope
widened so as to include all the women in its membership and to
. be manned by student-officers chosen to represent all departments and
classes. In accordance with this suggestion, mass-meetings of the
women of the three departments were held and the desirability of
such an organization was discussed. Considerable interest was
shown and a committee was appointed to draw up a provisional con-
stitution. Before the work was entirely completed, the summer
vacation came; and the revision and adoption of the constitution
were deferred until this year. We now expect to have the new or-
ganization fully launched before the Christmas vacation.

The object of the Association is fourfold: to extend and im-
prove the work formerly done by the House Government Associa-
tion; to increase the student sense of honor and responsibility for
the general condition of the college life; to co-operate with the
Deans of Women in regard to such rules as the Association feels it
may wisely undertake to enforce; and to provide, in the form of its
Executive Board, a representative body to confer with the Deans,
the Faculty, and the new Men's Student Senate, in all matters of
general college concern where such conference seems desirable.

The college women, through the class vice-presidents, took upon
themselves in the spring the charge of the attendance at the chapel
exercises. The Conservatory Board had already had a similar re-
sponsibility for that department; and the Academy came into line.
The attendance is not ideal, but an improvement has been made;
and this will doubtless be included among the duties of the new
organization.

This assurance of perfect sympathy and hearty co-operation in
all our efforts for the maintenance of a happy, helpful, and whole-
some college life on the part of the great majority of our students,
and their confidence in our open-mindedness and consideration con-
tribute most largely to the enjoyment and value of our life together.
Respectfully submitted,

FLOKENCE M. FITCH.

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Report of the Dean of College and
Graduate Women

To the President:

Sib — The total uumber of women in the College and Art Depart-
ments for the academic year 1905-06 was 506, distributed as follows :

College —

Graduates 7

Seniors 78

Juniors 79

Sophomores 98

Freshmen 120

Specials 40

422

Art 27

Summer School 57

The increasing number of women who come from other schools
to enter the upper classes, considerably exceeding those to whom we
give honorable dismission, is a gratifying indication of the rank Ober-
lin is taking among the colleges of the Middle West

The health record for the year has been remarkable, when one
considers the large number of students in attendance. No serious ill-
ness has occurred here. Yet the college has suffered severely by the
loss of three of its strongest women by death during the summer:
Grace Harlacher, who died August 13, from tuberculosis of the stom-
ach, having left college at the close of the first semester because of
poor health ; Mary A. Stevens, who died of typhoid fever on Septem-
ber 22 ; Florence Storey, who was killed September 14 by falling from
a horse. The first two were members of the incoming Senior class.
Miss Storey of the Junior class. It is a privilege to be able in this
way to acknowledge the great contribution which they have made to
the college life by their splendid scholarship, strong and winning
personalities, and unfailing loyalty.

The discipline of this department has been chiefly limited to In-
dividual cases of minor importance ; and while It was deemed neces-

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sary by the Women's Board to suspend two young women, and a few
difficulties have arisen involving a small group of students, the stu-
dent sentiment on the whole is loyal and entirely satisfactory. The
spirit of co-operation and vital interest in the well-being of the col-
lege on the part of the older students is gratifying and promises
good results for the future.

There has been a growing appreciation on the part of the Fac-
ulty and the Women's Board of the trustworthiness of our upper-
class women; we are therefore coming to believe in the advisability
of encouraging their sense of responsibility by increasing their lib-
erty and allowing them certain privileges which we could not wisely
extend to all women of the Institution. We were therefore most will-
ing to grant the request of the Senior women last spring, that they
be permitted to make and receive calls or be out for other purposes
until half-past nine one evening in the week. We had no occasion to
regret this action and so were ready to grant the same privilege to
the Senior women for this year.

The pleasantest and most gratifying part of my work cannot be
reported, except -as I may say that with every passing year the per-
sonal relations with the young women become more intimate and
helpful and friendship supplants authority in most of my dealings
with them. Respectfully submitted,

FLORENCE M. FITCH.

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Report of the Dean of Conservatory
Women

To the PreHdent:

Sib — ^The problem of how to deal wisely with over four hundred
wQpien where there are no natural graded divisions into classes, has
been to her a serious one ever since there has been a Dean of Conser>
vatory Women and this problem is made much more difficult because
each year more than half of the women are here for the first time.

Several years ago the older girls themselves came to feel that it
would be an advantage to have some sort of an organization and de-
cided to elect a Student Board of Ck>uservatory Women, composed of
from ten to sixteen to do whatever they saw would be helpful. Each
term they selected fifty or sixty of the older girls, and so placed them
in chapel that each one felt responsible for the five or six new girls
near her. Then at least once each term these fifty or sixty spent a
social hour together talking over plans for helping their little groups
to higher ideals in things other than simply chapel conduct and at-
tendance.

For three years the Board girls have seen to it that from three
to five of them are here from morning until night for the opening
days of each term to do all of the Dean's clerical work, leaving her .
entirely free to give all her time to helping each individual of the
four hundred, according to their several needs.

Last spring it seemed worth while to let them try the seating of
the girls in chapel In groups according to the length of time they had
been here, thus leading the way to dealing with the older girls in a
little different way than with the new ones. This fall they have al-
ready elected their Social Ck)mmittees and "class" officers, the Presi-
dent being ex-offlcio a member of the Board.

Those who had been here two or more years decided how far
they believed they could be trusted, and what privileges they could
safely have which could not be granted to those who had been here
for a shorter time, with the understanding that the failure to use
these trusts conscientiously must mean their withdrawal from those
who abuse them.

The result so far has been fully as satisfactory as could be rea-

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sonably hoped for at first, and is already manifestly counting in rais-
ing the general feeling of individual responsibility not only for them-
selves, but also for the new girls.

Since the place has been reached where the number of (conser-
vatory women manifestly must be limited in some way, the standard
is being gradually raised in two definite directions: —

First, each year more and more emphasis is being laid upon the
need of the completion of High School work before specializing in
music. This is done with the expectation that before long virtually
all of tne women will be of College rank. In 1904-05 about one-fouTth
of all the women enrolled were of College rank. In 1905-06 there
were somewhat over one-third. This fall, not counting those of Acad-
emy rank who are living at home so they are not under College su-
pervision, fully one-half of the girls are of College rank.

Second — The new catalogues state that no student is considered
fully a member of the Institution until he has passed a probation of
one year satisfactory to the Faculty, during which time they may
privately dismiss him, if for any reason they deem his connection with
the Conservatory undesirable. This makes it possible toward the
close of each term to advise those not to return who are failing to do
their work in a satisfactory manner, or who do not seem disposed to
adapt themselves to our standard of conduct, without waiting until
the situation is serious enough to call for discipline.

During the year four of the girls were asked to withdraw, only
one of whom had been here previous to this year. None of these would
be refused letters of recommendation to other schools, but this mani-
festly was not the place for them. Several of the new girls were
asked not to return for at least a year, because of lack of earnest
purpose in their work, or of suitable standards of conduct

Five years ago it was found that a number came each term who
for various reasons could not master the theory work in the Conser-
vatory, nor even the regular English offered in the Academy. Un-
der Professor Wager's supervision a course in English fiction was
planned to meet the needs of this class of students, and has been of-
fered in the Academy ever since. The teachers have invariably made
it Interesting and profitable and such a one that even those who could
not — or would not — work much, could get something of value from it
Each year it has been possible to require a higher grade of work in
this course than could be done the previous year, and this fall Mr.
Peck is having it held up to the standard demanded of Academy

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seniors. In spite of this there has been an urgent demand from a large
number of our girls of Ck)llege rank, for a more advanced course in
English, and there has not been room in the College classes for them.
It seems clear that such a need should be met at once, and it is sin-
cerely hoped that this coming winter term a course in XlXth Century
Masterpieces may be offered, expressly for such girls as have com-
pleted the requirements in English for admission to College. There
can be little doubt that enough Conservatory girls will each year elect
this, to meet at least half of the salary of a new Professor in English.
One other thing we feel indicates an increasing earnestness of
purpose, on the part of the girls, to make the best of their opportu-
nities. Since few can win their Bachelor's degree in less than four
years, and their theory work can be finished in eight terms, it is
noted that an increasing number are using that extra time for taking
up work in Literary Societies and for some course in the College,
even though it is not required.

Respectfully submitted,

HARMONIA W. WOODFORD.

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Report of the Dean of Academy
Women

To the President:

Sib — The enrolment of women In the Academy for the year
1905-06 was 149. It has been encouraging to note that an increasing
number of students, who came for special work only, have changed to
a regular course in order that they may graduate from the Academy.

In many ways it would be very helpful in our care of the Acad-
emy young women if they were In a dormitory by themselves. Some
changes in legislation might then be made and a more personal su-
pervision of their work in general and of their study hours would be
possible. Since this plan is not at present feasible we consider our-
selves fortunate in having secured Allencroft as a second Academy
House for the coming year. The two houses now provide a home
for nearly thirty young women. In spite of the many objections that
may be urged against such a plan we cannot help feeling that on the
whole there has been a gain in this cottage system. It is quite possi-
ble that such an arrangement may foster a wholesome spirit of
loyalty to the best interests of the Academy. There are hopeful
signs that gradually the young women in these houses will assume
a share in the responsibility of the management of the house.

The Lesbian Society has done very creditable work during the
year and has been a source of helpfulness and good friendship to its
members.

There have been no serious cases of discipline, although a few
students have been asked not to return on account of failure in
scholarship or because of unsatisfactory conduct.

It is a difficult matter to report in facts this kind of work, but
perhaps it will be sufficient to add that through personal confer-
ence and by calls upon the young women in their homes there have
been many opportunities to l)ecome acquainted with them and with
their special needs.

Respectfully submitted,

EDITH C. FARGO.

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Report of the Registrar

To the President:

Sir — ^Ab Registrar of the college, I hereby submit my report
for the Academic year 1905-06.

The enrolment in the college for the year 1905-06 was as fol-
lows:

Men

Graduates 15

Seniors 57

Juniors 59

Sophomores 62

Freshmen 89

Special Students 15

297 417 714

The number completing the required work for the degrees
given below, during the year 1905-06 was as follows:

Men Women Total
A. M 5 1 6

A. B 51 75 12(5

Prescribed work:

A. M 3 0 3

Women

Total
22

134

136

159

119

208

Some statistics of the graduating class of 1905-06 may be of
Interest. This was the largest class ever graduated from Oberlin
College, numbering 126 members, who have completed the work
required for the degree A.B. This fact is owing to the large number
of additions from outside schools after the Freshman year, as shown
in the tables given below ; for of the 169 students who entered College
as Freshmen in 1902, only 59 were graduated in 1906.

The following table shows the losses and gains during the four
years, 1902 to 1906:

Class of 1906, Admitted to College, September, 1902

Men Women Total
Number of Members 79 90 169

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LoHses

Wo- To-

Men men tal

Left College during or at the end of the Freshman year 20 19 39

Left College during or at the end of the Sophomore year 12 14 26

Left College during" or at the end of the Junior year... 6 3 9

Entered a lower class 10 11 21

Entered a higher class 4 3 7

Classed Senior, failed to complete the work required •

for the degree A.B 6 2 8

Total loss 58 52 110

Oains

From higher classes 11 10 21

From lower classes 4 15

From outside schools in the Sophomore year 2 13 15

From other Colleges in the Junior year 2 7 9

From other Colleges in the Senior year 3 4 7

From Oberlin Academy in the Sophomore year 5 1 6

From the Special students 3 14

Total gain 30 37 67

Net loss 28 15 43

Comparing these figures with the corresponding ones for the
class of 1905, we find that a slightly smaller percentage of the total
membership of the class of 1906 was graduated than was the case
in the preceding class. In those two classes, the total loss of 1906
was greater by 9, their net loss, less by 15.

Of the seventy-four students who left College before the Senior
year, the majority are accounted for as shown in the table below.
The facts given can scarcely be taken with absolute certainty, for
the difficulty of getting at the actual reasons for leaving College
is apparent to all. The figures given are based upon personal
interviews and correspondence with the Secretary and Registrar.

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Men

To enter other Colleges 15

To go into business 5

To engage in teaching

Because of previous plan

Lack of money 1

Poor health 4

Dissatisfied in Oberlin 2

Called home by death of parent . .
No reason known 11

38 36 74

There is no doubt but that greater distance from home and a
consequent increase in traveling expenses influenced several in
making the change from Oberlin to a college nearer home. Prob-
ably the reason most frequently given by young men who change to
some other college Is to combine a College and Professional course,
or to enter a Technical School.

As usual there was a large loss among the Special Students,
not as large, however, as in the year 1904-05.

Special Students

Men Women Total
In attendance during the year 1904-05 19 33 52

Left College l>ef ore the end of the year 1 3 4

Left College at the end of the year 12 16 28

13 19 32

Entered a College class in Fall of 1905 4 4 8

Re-entered as Special Students in Fall of 1905. . . 2 10 12

6 14 20

In the choice of Freshman electives the same tendency as was
shown in 1904-05 was evident in 1905-06, except that French,
especially beginning French, rivalled German in the number
electing it Mathematics, English Composition and. Bible are re-
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two from the following group: L#atln, Greek, German, French,
Science (either Botany or Zoology).

For the year 1905-06, for the one hundred and ninety-nine Fresh-
men, the choice of elect Ives is shown in the table below :

Number of Students Electing Freshman Latin 87

Advanced Greek

JLI

Beginning Greek....

Advanced German . .

Beginning German. .

Advanced French . .

Beginning French. .

Science

As to scholarship, I am glad to say that my decided conviction
is that the high standard which Oberlln College has always held
is not only being maintained, but that her high ideals and earnest
aim to secure fine, thorough, scholarly work is being met by students
with an increasingly encouraging response.

The (Committee on Failure in Scholarship, by Its careful and
conscientious work in looking after the individual student, is doing
an important work. Timely warnings and personal conferences
with the chairman prevent many failures, but of course all
failures cannot be avoided and at the close of the year, five
students who had been repeatedly warned and counseled with,
were asked not to return on account of their poor scholarship and
continued failure.

The work In the Registrar's OflSce is large, very Interesting
and full of opportunity. It of course increases in amount and com-
plexity with the rapid growth of the College — 66 2-3 per cent, in
the last five years. May I urge once more the great need of more
permanent assistance than can be obtained when depending entire-
ly upon students with their many engagements. Under the present
arrangement many consecutive hours of work from any one person
is Impossible, and separate hours are of much less value. Often
too, when most needed, students are in class and their assistance,
not available. This need is felt with much keenness this Fall, with
seventy-three more students in College than the entire enrolment

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of last year showed, and It is especially emphasized by the fact that
my chief assistant for the last three years, who had learned so
thoroughly the details of the work that he was very efficient, was
graduated in June, which necessitated the teaching of new helpers.
The aim of the Office ia to render the greatest possible service to
the Faculty and to the students and to be of real value to the College.
To this end, I wish the work to be done with greatest efficiency, to
take up some work that is untouched, and to improve certain things,
all of which is impossible with our present arrangement.

The Card Catalogue of all existing records is still unfinished,
but I hope that it may be brought up to date by the end of this
College year. It has already proved its usefulness, which will in-
crease as the years pass.

Respectfully submitted,

FLORA ISABEL WOLCOTT.

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Report of the Director of the
Conservatory of Music

To the President:

Sib — In looking back over the past year one Is Impressed anew
with the fact that In times of peace and prosperity in a CJonservatory
of Music as in a Nation, little startling history is made. Our classes
have been full almost to overflowing, our teachers have shown the
highest efliciency and loyalty and the quality of the work In our
recitals and concerts has been fully up to our best standards.

The graduating class of last June was the largest and in some
ways the best equipped we have ever sent out They are already
filling important positions in schools and conservatories. In this
connection it might be well to note the fact that the Director has
many more calls for young men of character, talent and thorough
musical education, as teachers and directors of music in Colleges,
than he can possibly fill. This is a field that is broadening in our
country, and may well attract young men whose talents and tastes
lie in that direction.

The attractiveness of the musical and social life of Oberlln
has made It possible for us to keep the personnel of the Faculty
essentially the same as last year, the leaves of absence and the
return of several from study in Europe being the only changes to
record.

Professor H. H. Carter, after a period of continuous service
since 1891, is spending this year in travel and study. The summer
was spent in Italy, and during the musical season he will be in Mu-
nich and Berlin.

Professor L. C. Wattles went abroad with Professor and Mrs.
Carter and is to be away until the beginning of the winter term.
She plans three months* study in London.

Miss Kate Peck, for three years instructor In singing, has gone
for the second time to Berlin and will enter the classes of Mr. Fer-
guson.

Mr. Herbert Harroun, who has been in Europe for the past
eighteen months, returns to his work in January. Many flattering

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accounts of his progress have reached us, and most refined singing
and slsiilful teaching may be confidently expected of him.

Mr. J. F. Alderfer, so successful as Dr. Andrews' assistant in
the Organ Department since his graduation with us in *03, has
leave of absence for two years which he will devote to study with
Guilmant in Paris.

Mr. J. R. Frampton, O. C. *01, O. C. M. '04, takes up the work
left by Mr. Alderfer. Mr. Frampton comes to us after two years*
teaching at Grinnell Iowa. In addition to this work, he is organist
in the Woodland Avenue Church of Cleveland.

Professor and Mrs. F. G. Doolittle are both teaching again this
fall. Professor Doolittle was away on leave of al>sence last year.
Mrs. Doolittle has spent two years in Berlin with Madam Stephanoff,
and as a result has acquired a most finished technique and refined
interpretation. She will be heard in a piano recital in the Artist Re-
cital Course later in the year..

Mr. Walter P. Stanley, as instructor in piano, and Mr. Edward
B. Manning, instructor in violin and harmony, came from New York
last January. Both have enjoyed the life here, and have been
distinctly serviceable.

Mr. Stanley was a pupil of Leschetlzky in Vienna, and Mr.
Manning of Schradieck in violin, and MacDowell in composition.

Mr. George C. Hastings, who graduated from the Conservatory
in 1900, and taught here for several years, returns as instructor in
piano after three years spent in the Leipzig Conservatory and with
private teachers. None of our graduates of recent years have
better testimonials from European masters. The critic of a prominent
Leipzig paper said his performance of the Tschaikowsky Concerto
was the best playing done by a student in the Conservatory for that
year.

The trustees at the June meeting conferred the title of Professor
on Mr. C. K. Barry, Mr. W. T. Upton, and Mr. J. A. Demuth. They
also conferred the degree of Bachelor of Music upon seventy-one
of our Alumni, who were recommended by our Faculty as eligible to
this honor.

The Music Teachers' National Association held its 28th Annual
Meeting in Oberlin from June 26th to 29th. Many of our teachers and
students remained, and a large number of our Alumni attended Its
sessions. The Conservatory was glad to offer Warner Hall for the

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use of the Association. We were greatly profited by its discussions,
wliicli were largely along the line of music education in Colleges.

You will be pleased to note the remarkable increase in the pro-
portion of our students of Ck>llege rank. Last year scarcely one-fourth
were so rated, while this fall the number reaches nearly one-half.
At this rate we shall soon arrive at what seemed at the beginning a
very distant goal, and without any sudden restrictions or demands
made on the students. Several influences have worked for us in
this direction. The requirement for graduation is perhaps one, the
classification in our catalogue another, but the strongest of all, the
steady influence exerted by our Dean and Faculty on the idea that
a young student should not devote himself exclmively to the study
of music until at least that much literary work had been done. It
would seem unwise to ever require a certain literary standard as a
condition of admission to the (Conservatory, as we shall always want
the presence of talented children, and others, who may be abnormally
talented in music and undeveloped in other ways. After they come
under our influence, they will be guided in the courses of study best
suited to their needs. It is interesting to know that four of our young
men finished the Academy course last year who doubtless never would
have done so, had they not first been attracted by the Conservatory
course.

It Is gratifying to report the response made by College students
to the course offered by Professor Dickinson in the Culture and Ap-
preciation of Music The class for the first Semester was 12, for the
second Semester, 39.

The outside activities of our Faculty are many and varied. With-
out going into detail, mention might be made of Professor Kimball's
large Chorus Choir, organized and directed by him in the Euclid Ave.
Church In Cleveland, of Professor Upton*s work as Director and Or-
ganist in the Calvary Church of the same city, and of Dr. Andrews*
short concert tours, playing on some of the most important organs
in the country, In addition to his annual series of organ concerts
given at home.

Our greatest need at the present time is a Music Hall large
enough to accommodate the crowds that attend the concerts given by
the Musical Union, and the various Orchestras that wish to include
Oberlin In their itinerary. With the co-operation of musical people

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In all the surrounding towns, our concerts might exert a much wider
influence.

Unless the new chapel is soon made available for this purpose,
some plan must be devised to meet this need.

Of the changes in Warner Hall, mention may be made of the new
system of Kinetic blowers for all the organs which has been substi-
tuted for the worn out and antiquated system we had.

Electric lights have been put in all the halls, ofllces, library
and teaching rooms. Nine new rooms have been furnished in the
basement, and are used mainly for organ and pedal piano practice.

The beautiful leaded glass windows will soon all be in place in
the Concert Hall.

The following list of artists and musical organizations have been
here since the last report:

Miss Augusta Ck)ttlow, Oct 10, Piano Recital.

Mrs. Louise Homer, Oct 25, Vocal Recital.

Mrs. S. C. Ford, Soprano; Mr. Arthur Foote, Pianist; Recital of
Mr. Foote's Songs. Mr. Foote at the piano, Nov. 6.

Mr. Jean Gerardy, Violoncello, Nov. 14.

Miss Caroline Harter, Violinist, assisted by Professor Brecken-
ridge and Conservatory Orchestra, Nov. 21.

Cincinnati Orchestra, Frank Van der Stucken, Conductor, Dec
7, Matinee.

Mrs. Corinne Rider-Kelsey.

Miss Janet Spencer

Mrs. Margaret Jones-Adams

Mr. Edward Strong

Mr. Henry P. Cole

Mr. Charles H. Adams

Mr. Herbert Witherspoon

Mr. Julian Walker

Mrs. Kirkby Lunn, Vocal Recital, Tuesday, Jan. 9.

Knelsel Quartette, Tuesday, Jan. 16, Matinee.

Pittsburgh Orchestra, Emil Paur, Conductor, Wednesday, Feb.
7, Matinee.

Henri Marteau, VIolUi Recital, Tuesday, Feb. 13.

Ellison Van Hoose, Vocal Recital, Tuesday, March 6.

Arnold Dolmetsch, Music on Ancient Instruments, Saturday,
March 24.

Dec. 5 and 6.

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Mr. Hans Kronold, 'Cello, Assisted by Professor Breckenrldge,
Pianist and Miss Caroline Barter, Violinist, April 17.
Signor Gherardi, Italian Tenor, April 24.
Wunderle Trio — May 9.

Mrs. Margaretha Wunderle, Harp

Mr. Carl Wunderle, Violin

Mr. Herman Melzer, 'Cello.

Mme. Olga Samaroff, Pianist, May 15.
Emlllo De Gogorza, Baritone, May 22.

Mrs. Lillian French Reed
Mrs. Isabel Bouton
Mr. Edward Barrow
Mr. Wm. Beard
Mr. Wm. Homer

June 19 and 20.

Table showing the number of students during the year:

Women Men Total

Fall 1905 498 96 594

Winter 1906 480 102 582

Spring 1906 445 93 538

Table showing number of students in both Conservatory and other

departments:

Conserva-

tory and Classed

other de- Conserva- Classed Conservatory

partments tory elsewhere alone

Fall 1905 208 495 109 396

Winter 1906 219 456 126 363

Spring 1906 181 423 113 356

Clasification with reference to College Entrance Requirements

Classed
Total Conservatory

Students of College Rank 237 149

Students of Academy Rank 500 419

Total enrolment 737 568

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Table showing hranchea taught and number of students in each:

Fall
1905

Harmony 257

(Counterpoint, Canon, Fugue 12

Composition 2

Harmonic Analysis and Musical Form 29

Ear Training 40

History of Music 84

Advanced History of Music 6

Pianoforte 474

Organ 85

Singing 286

Violin 53

Wind Instruments 7

Public School Music 25

Appreciation of Music, 1st Semester.. 12
(for College Students only) 2d Semes.

Choral Class 40

Comparing this report with that of 1904-05, three things seem to
show a decided gain.

1. Over two-thirds of the entering classes in theory continued
through this year as against one-half in 1904-05.

2. College Rank Classed

Total Conservatory

1904-05 180 97

1905-06 237 150

If, of those of Academy rank, there are left out those who live In
their homes, In 1904-05, 97 were of College rank and 339 of Academy
rank, nearly 23 per cent being of College grade. In 1905-06, 148 were

Winter
1906

Spring
1906

200

150

113

470

416

279

263

39*

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of Ck>llege rank, 317 of Academy rank, about 32 per cent being of (Col-
lege grade.

3. Bachelor of Arts Degrees Classed

Total Conservatory

1904-05 6 6

1905-06 17 14

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES W. MORRISON.

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Report of the Principal of Oberlin
Academy

To the President :

Sib — At the last commencement, June 15, 1906, a class of sixty
was graduated from the Academy. Of this number forty were boys and
twenty were girls. Of the boys, twenty-three entered Oberlin €k>llege
this year, one entered Cornell, one Ohio State University, one Colum-
bia University, two Micliigan, one Pomona College, one Purdue Uni-
versity, one Chicago University, and one a Chicago Medical school.
Of the girls, seventeen are Freshmen at Oberlin and one entered
Smith college. Five of tlie boys and two of the girls are not in collie
at all. Two of the boys are completing their courses in the Oberlin
Conservatory, and one is studying abroad. Beside the students who
received the Academy diploma last June, a half-dozen others, who
had not completed their work, entered various colleges. In addition
to providing instruction for the regular Academy students, there are
in its classes at the present time one hundred and four students of
the Conservatory and about one hundred and forty from the College.
The rooms are all occupied and the most of the classes are full.

The same plans which were outlined In the report of the Prin-
cipal a year ago have been followed largely the last year, both in the
sending out of catalogues and In the correspondence from the office.
In addition to these plans a copy of the Academy calendar, published
just at the close of the year, was sent to each regular student of the
Academy in July, with a note asking him to use his efforts to secure
some new student for the Academy. The distinct Academy life has
been emphasized as far as ix)ssible and with quite good results. The
Academy houses have been provided with much better quarters. They
are furnishing accommodations to about thirty girls and are giving ta-
ble board to an eciual number of boys. A new house nearby is largely
occupied by Academy boys for rooms. The debate teams brought great
credit to the Academy last year. They won both of their debates,
although they took on one occasion one side of the question, and on
another occasion the other side, but they did better than this, they
presented a debate that would do great credit to much older and
more mature students. The separate athletic teams were kept up

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during the entire year and around their worli there gathered much
enthusiasm on the part of the majority of the Academy students. In
all their outside activities there seemed to be a healthy and enthusi-
astic spirit among the students. This favorable situation is due very
largely to the fact that the Academy has been able to retain the
services of four young men as teachers, who are giving all that they
have to give, both in the class room and out of it, to the strengthening
of Academy interests. The Academy has for many years enjoyed the
services of an intelligent and earnest company of women as teachers,
but there has been great need among the boys of the same sort of
a body of men who stay in their places long enough to make an im-
pression upon the Academy life. This is the great gain that the last
two years have brought The whole body of teachers now employed
is admirable and thoroughly satisfactory. The great need of the
Academy is to keep these teachers and especially these men. Some
of them are already planning for further study, but their services
can be secured after such study if suitable inducements can be offered
to them to continue in their work. The Academy has very imperfect
equipment so far as buildings and appliances are concerned. It can,
however, get along fairly comfortably if It can retain its teachers.
The Principal wishes to make a special plea for a sufficient increase
In the salaries of the men, who are now teaching in the Academy, to
make it possible to retain them. They are receiving a salary of
$050 a year only. It ought to be possible in the immediate future to
raise these salaries gradually, for experienced teachers, to at least
$1,000. This seems to the Principal absolutely essential to the devel-
opment of those plans in the Academy which have had quite definite
form in his own mind for some years, and which recently the trustees
have so earnestly recommended.

The Principal is also just as sure as he has been for some years
past that the Interests of both the College and the Academy demand
the appointment of some one to look after the outside interests in the
way of securing students, placing teachers In positions, which will
be both helpful to them and serviceable to their alma mater, and keep-
ing us in touch with the various educational interests of Ohio and
the adjoining states. The Principal feels confident that such an ap-
pointment will in a very few years justify itself financially and in
every other way. Respectfully submitted,

JOHN F. PECK.

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Report of the Chairman of the Summer

School

To The President :

Sib — During the past year the following changes were introduced
into the organization of the Summer School — (1) The school Is
no longer a co-operative institution. Fixed salaries are now paid to
teachers; the dividend system has been done away with; the guar-
antee formerly made by the college for the support of normal
courses has been changed into a guarantee of the school as a whole,
the understanding being that any surplus remaining after the ex-
penses of the school have been met shall become the property of
the college. (2) The salaries of teachers are now paid at Jthe fol-
lowing rates — ^to a full professor $70 for a 5-hour course; to an
associate professor $60 for a 5-hour course ; to an instructor $50 for
a 5-hour course. The rates are less than 50 per cent of those paid
during the regular year. To offset this discrepancy provision has
been made for an increase in salaries with the Jioped for develop-
ment of the school. (3.) It was determined that the 8 weeks of the
summer session should count as a half-semester. (4) The rule
requiring that a course to be given in the Summer School should
first be offered to the individual teaching it in the regular year, was
set aside. In its stead the general principle was adopted that all
recommendations to the Summer School staff should be made by the
committee of the Summer School acting in consultation with the
heads of departments.

These changes have tended to affiliate the work and methods of
the Summer School more closely than ever with those of the regular
college year. In this respect it is important to note that Oberlin has
marked out for herself a method of development as regards her
Summer Session identical with that pursued by our larger schools.
Mr. Jones, our college secretary, handed to me recently a cutting
from the Boston Evening Transcript under the date of September 19,
1906, containing a noteworthy article entitled, "University Summer

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Schools," written by Prof. Guldo H. Stempe of Indiana University.
Professor Stempe contrasts two distinct Ideals of the Summer
Session which have emerged In its history — the one being embodied
in the Chautauqua and Teacher's institute type, the other developing
into the idea that the Summer School must become a regular term
of the college year, instead of being regarded as a mere addition
to that work. There can be no doubt that Oberlln is working stead-
ily toward the latter goal. In this respect a recent vote passed by
the Faculty is significant It was voted that in administering the
eligibility rule governing participation in athletic events the com-
mittee in charge of athletics should be empowered to consider the
Summer Session as constituting in this respect a regular term.

During the past summer the committee was exceedingly for-
tunate in being able to retain a larger number than usual of the
staff of the college. Every position but one was filled by the regular
staff, and that position was itself filled by an Oberlln graduate of
the class of '99, Miss Esther Ward. The other staff members were
the following : — full professors. Root, Martin, Anderegg, Wager, Ck)le,
Miller, MacLennan; associates, Hosford, Ck)wdery, Jones, Wolfe;
Instructors, Branson, Luckey, Myers.

The students in attendance numbered 136. This was six less
than were In attendance upon the school of 1905. But it should be
remembered that the enrolment that year was phenomenal as com-
pared with any previous year, an addition of 25 having been made
over the largest antecedent number, 117. Of the students of 1906,
20 were graduate students as against 18 of the previous year; 89
were of college rank, 7 of academy standing, 8 were enrolled exclu-
sively for normal work, 12 were specials. Thirty students were in at-
tendance who had never previously been at Oberlln. A most significant
fact in the enrolment is the large Increase in the number of students
who stayed over from the regular year. This fact is marked by the
large elections of the general courses in Greek Drama, Greek History,
Sculpture, European History, American History, Bibliography, Eng-
lish Literature, Pedagogy, Economics, Sociology. As a departure two
courses for teachers of German and Science were Introduced in ad-
dition to the one previously offered for teachers of Latin. The en-
rolment and Interest in both cases were quite sufficient to Justify the
wisdom of the departure. A course in Field Geology added at the earn-
est request of the Geological department must also receive special men-

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tlon. The course appears to be a very essential part of the regular
geological curriculum and yet, for obvious reasons, it cannot be un-
dertaken in the regular college year. After exclusion of all those
whose previous training did not Justify their enrolment in the course
the full number required for the carrying it was easily found.
Aside from its value to the department of Geology this course has
been of great value to the college in other respects. While engaged in
field study the class in Geology made several very valuable I'.iids.
These were of rare, and in one case, perhaps, of previously unknown
fossil fishes. The monetary value of such specimens as may be ex-
changed is greater than the cost of the course. The remaining speci-
mens will serve to make the Oberlln collection of fossil fishes more
unique than ever. As Chairman of the Summer School I would em-
phasize the advisability of continuing this course. The cost of carry-
ing it is, however, almost too great for the finances of the Simimer
School. As the course is normally part of the regular year's work,
although given in the summer, the natural place for it would seem to
be the college budget

The budget of the Summer School is filed with this report. From
this it will be seen that the school drew on the guarantee to the ex-
tent of $188.23 as against $87.50 last year. From this, however, should
rightfully be deducted $75.00 added on account of field geology. This
would leave the balance against the summer School at $113.23. But the
schedule of 1900 carried 158 instruction hours as against 150 of the
1905 schedule. These hours were distributed as follows: In the
college 118 hours for 1900 as against 95 for 1905; in the Academy 25
hours as against 25 ; in normal and review work 15 hours as against
30. The same number of hours was given to review of American
Literature as formerly, but it was found possible to reduce the num-
ber of hours, given to normal work without reducing its efficiency. Mr.
Luckey arranged to give one 5-hour course entirely to the review of
elementary school studies and in a second 5-hour course to cover
elementary methods. This arrangement reduced the purely normal
hours by 15. These hours were transferred to College work. A very
much larger proportion of time was given to advanced Peda-
gogical work than hitherto. The resultant effect was that as many
students of a purely normal grade were obtained as formerly while at
the same time a large addition was made to the curriculum as a
whole. Moreover the elections in these new courses were very large.

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Thus the discrepancy in the budget is explained by the increase
in the cost of giving more advanced courses by the heads of depart-
ments. The expense to the school for each full professor employed in
a 5-hour course is $20 greater than that for an instructor or a prin-
cipal of some high school.

Now if one put together the facts of the increase in the number
of regular students who stayed over for the summer term, the large
elections of the novel advanced and broadly cultural courses, the
increased number of graduate students, the stability of the normal
courses, the conclusion appears to be evident that the Oberlin Sum-
mer School will develop most naturally along the line of elective col-
lege work which will call back to us larger numbers of our ouii
graduates and hold for the summer more of our undergraduates.
Teachers we shall obtain — and of the better class — but not in over-
whelming numbers. Moreover most of these come not In response
to advertising but through acquaintance of some one who has
formerly been in Oberlin. During the past years many catalogues
have been sent out to teachers in the surrounding counties, and last
year advertisements were placed in two of the most widely read
Ohio school Journals. The results, however, have been disapi)ointingly
small. I think it is a fact that the teacher in the elementary grades
who does not care to spend his entire vacation in class room work
and who also desires a rapid review of the subjects which he Is to
teach will more likely go to a Summer School of the Chautauquan
type than come to Oberlin. The smaller numbers, however, who do
come to Oberlin are for the same reason much more desirable for the
flnal building up of the school.

In concluding this report I would call attention to the fact that
the guarantee to the Summer School expired with this year. It is
my Judgment that such a guarantee should be made permanent. It
is not likely that the full amount will be used in any year. But with-
out the guarantee the school simply cannot develop. In this exx)er-
ience Oberlin is not alone. It is the fate which has overtaken the
summer schools of her type — schools whose flnal aim has been efficien-
cy. I would also express my personal appreciation of the great assist-
ance in advice and in labor given to me by the members of the Sum-
mer School committee as also to the College Secretary for unfailing
and never-wearied courtesy and assistance in connection with every
phase of the work.

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BEGISTBATION IN THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1906

The enrolment of students In the various classes was as follows :

College Courses Teacher Hen m^ ud

Bibliography Professor Root 3 G 9

Classical Archaeology Professor CJole 2 9 11

Economics Associate Professor Wolfe. .7 10 17

English Literature (Drama) .Professor Wager 8 12 2»3

English Literature (Brown-
ing) Professor Wager 8 19 27

Ethics Professor Macl^ennan 8 4 12

French 1 and 2 Associate Professor Cowdery 4 4 8

Geology (Field Course) Mr. Branson 5 0 5

German 1 and 2 Mr. Myers 6 3 9

German (Teachers' Course). Mr. Myers 2 5 7

Greek Drama Professor Martin 6 15 21

History (European) Professor Root 7 7 14

History (American) Professor Root 5 7 12

History (Greek) Professor Martin 4 11 15

Latin (Teachers') Professor Cole 3 5 8

Latin (Quintilian) Professor Cole 2 7 9

Mathematics (Trigonometry

and Analytical Geometry). Professor Anderegg 2 2 4

Ornithology Associate Professor Jones.. 9 4 13

Pedagogy (Reading Course). Professor Miller 5 12 17

Pedagogy (Educational Re-
formers) Professor Miller 3 6 9

Pedagogy (Elementary Educa-
tion) Professor Miller 2 6 8

Pedagogy (General Methods) Professor Miller 2 6 8

Psychology Profespor MacLennan 12 15 27

Science (Teachers' Course) ..Associate Professor Jones.. 4 15

Sculpture Professor Martin 3 8 11

Sociology (Socialism) Associate Professor Wolfe.. 8 3 11

Sociology (Social Problems) .Associate Professor Wolfe.. 9 5 14
Academy or High School Courses

Latin 1 and 2 Associate Professor Hosford 2 5 7

Literature (English) Miss Ward 6 4 10

Mathematics (Geometry) ...Professor Anderegg 4 2 6

Mathematics (Algebra) Professor Anderegg 3 3 6

Normal Courses

Literature (Amer. Review) ..Miss Ward 0 8 8

Pedagogy (Normal Methods). Mr. Luckey 0 9 9

Pedagogy (Review of Sub-
jects) Mr. Luckey 0 8 8

Respectfully submitted,

S. F. MACLENNAN.

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Report of the Director of the Men's
Gymnasium

To the President:

Sm — ^The receipts and expenditures of the Gymnasium for 1905-
06 were as follows :

Receipts

From term bills of men in the CJollege, Academy, and Con-
servatory $ 944.50

From other fees 236.00

From rental 88.47

From interest on endowment ($5,000) 240.00

Miscellaneous 3.13

Total $1,512.10

Expenditures

Teaching (Director's salary not included) $1,191.75

Clerk hire 22.43

Stationery and printing 16.75

Janitor and assistance 451.54

Custodian 88.20

Fuel 391.23

Lights 129.26

Water 22a65

New apparatus 88.50

Supplies and repairs 302.16

Insurance 48.56

Telephone 15.00

Grounds 43.47

Miscellaneous 11.30

Total 3,026.80

Estimated Actual

Expenditures, 1905-06 $3,230.00 $3,026.80

Income, 1905-06 1.375.00 1,512.10

Drawn from University funds $1,855.00 $1,514.70

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In addition to the above items the sum of $75, the term bills of
two Seniors in the Teachers* Course for the second semester, was ap-
plied toward the purchase of a vaulting horse. In the spring the Pru-
dential Committee authorized the laying out of two tennis courts on
the north end of the lots back of the Gymnasium, for the use of the
Tennis Association, provided the cost were met subsequently out of
rental or from other receipts of the department The expense of put-
ting the grounds in shape and erecting posts and backstops was $71.70,
and the rental for the short season that followed was $7.00.

The men who made use of the Gymnasium in 1905-06 were dis-
tributed as follows:

The Colleee ^°' ^" ^^' ^^i"' I** credit In other Not takinff

* College Gymnasium courses classes class work

Graduates 15 6 .. .. 6

Seniors 57 48 12 4 32

Juniors 59 55 19 3 33

Sophomores 62 60 38 3 19

Freshmen 89 79 57 5 17

Specials 15 12 7 2 3

Total College... 207 260 133 17 110

The Theological Seminary 52 28 . . 12 16

The Academy 197 183 3 133 47

Conservatory of Music. .. 74 47 2 41 4

Total, all departments 620 518 138 203 177

Members of Faculty 18 .. 3 15

High School 39 . . 39

Business College 7 . . 7

Citizens 5 .. 5

Grand totals 587 138 257 192

These figures show that 83.55 per cent of the men in all depart-
ments made use of the Gymnasium, and 90 per cent (all but 28 men)
of the undergraduates in the College department The corresponding
percentages for the year before were 83 1-3 and 88.7. One hundred
and thirty-three College undergraduates, or 47.16 per cent of the
whole number, were enrolled in the credit courses, Instead of the
107 (37.9 per cent) of the year before. One hundred and ninety-

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eight new students received physical examinations, and 59 old stu-
dents were re-examined (the figures the year before were 206 and
56), besides the large number of candidates for the different varsity
and Academy teams who were given partial examinations, in accord-
ance with our practice, to determine their physical fitness to engage
in intercollegiate or interscholastic contests.

The plan of work remained essentially as outlined In previous re-
ports. Mr. R. P. Jameson, Instructor in Physical Training, took Mr.
Edwin Fauver*s place as teacher of the credit courses offered to Col-
lege students, and Mr. W. W. McKay, a graduate of the College in
the class of 1905 and a member of the Senior class In the Teachers'
Course in Physical Training, conducted the advanced sections of
mixed classes formerly taught by Mr. E. F. Adams at 3 and 4
o'clock. The elementary sections of these latter classes, together
with a similar class at 9:30, were taught by undergraduate students
in the Teachers* Course — Mr. F. W. Elliott, Mr. R. H. Long, and Mr.
H. W. Spiers, and Mr. W. C. Clancy remained in charge of the even-
ing (7:30) class.

Last year, for the first time, the Teachers* Course in Physical
Training was opened to men, and in June its diploma was conferred
on Mr. R. P. Jameson (Ph. B., 1900), Mr. Walter W. McKay (A. B.,
(1906), and Mr. Fred W. Elliott, of the class of 1906. Mr. R. H. Long,
of the same class, who was registered in the* Course, entered upon it
too late to complete certain parts of it before graduation. The di-
ploma was also conferred upon Mr. Edwin Fauver, so long connected
with the department of physical training here, and who had taken,
either here or elsewhere, all the prescribed work of the Teachers*
Ck)urse. Of these men Mr. Fauver and Mr. McKay are studying med-
icine in Columbia University, where the former is also teaching in the
Horace Mann School and the latter in Speyer School of Teachers* Col-
lege. Mr. Jameson remains in Oberlin as Instructor in French and in
Physical Training, and Mr. Elliott is director of the high school
gymnasium in Jamestown, N. Y.

At their annual meeting last November the Trustees appointed
Mr. C. W. Savage Associate Professor of Physical Training and Di-
rector of Athletics, in accordance with the recommendation contained
in my report for 1904-05. He spent the year in study at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons and Teachers College of Columbia Univer-
sity, and has now entered upon the duties of the new position. This
action of the Trustees, while it greatly strengthens the department,

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serves also to emphasize its greatest needs, as will appear further
from Mr. Savage*s own report These needs are (1) the immediate
completion of the north end of the Gymnasium, to furnish increased
locker room (nearly two hundred men now have to share their lock-
ers with some one else) and bathing facilities, special accommoda-
tions for home and visiting athletic teams, and added rooms for
class work, games, and instruction in fencing, wrestling, and boxing;
(2) the purchase of the remaining two lots of the six lying west and
northwest of the Gymnasium, so that plans for an outdoor gymnasium
can be carried out; and (3) the purchase of additional grounds for
games and athletic sports, and the procuring of funds for the care and
improvement of such grounds as are already owned by the College.
Carefully planned class work on the gymnasium floor and in the yard,
with corrective and disciplinary aims uppermost, is the foundation
upon which a department of physical training must be built up ; but
it has also to see that opportunity for physical recreation and the
social and moral training of the playground is furnished to the great
body of students. Respectfully submitted,

FRED EUGENE LEONARD,

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Report of the Director of Athletics

To the President:

Sir— The year 1905-06 was spent by me In special preparation for
my Oberlin work. This preparation consisted of special work in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ck)lumbia University in first
and second year courses in Anatomy, Physiology, and Physiological
Chemistry, and in practical and theoretical courses in Physical Edu-
cation in Teachers College. The work was most interesting and prof-
itable and the year was far too short

While in New York I had the privilege of representing Oberlin
in the New York Foot-ball Conference, held at the Murray Hill Hotel,
December 28th, 1905. From that body I was chosen to represent the
colleges of Ohio on the Foot-ball Rules Revision Committee. This
Committee was later amalgamated with the already existing "Rules
Committee" and they became the American Intercollegiate Foot-ball
Rules Committee.

The work with this Committee was most interesting, and though
it severely interfered with my own work I counted it a privilege to
be able to help in such an important task. Although too early to
pass final Judgment everything seems to indicate at this writing that
the new rules will prove in the main highly satisfactory.

By the Rules Committee I was also elected as one of a sub-
committee of five to act as a Central Board on Officials. This Com-
mittee has accomplished much in the direction of better and more
competent officiating.

As I take up the work here this year I feel that Justice to the
men of the institution demands that I should call your attention to
the crying need for the completion of the "remaining third" of the
gymnasium building, with its contemplated equipment for athletic
teams, both home and visiting, additional dressing and locker rooms,
baths, and a second exercising floor for the physical training work.
The present bathing and locker facilities are wholly inadequate and
the effectiveness in the gymnasium work itself is greatly lessened by
the necessity of having two and three classes on the floor at the same
time. It seems to me also that the time has come for the College to
own and maintain its own playgrounds. This is the only logical con-
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sldered In the light of our attitude toward other student Interests.
To this end a special fund Is needed for the completion of the running
tracks, the stands, and the purchase of the acreage lying between Dill
Field and Athletic Park. This field has Just come Into the market
and can be purchased for a very reasonable amount at this writing.

For the care and maintenance of such grounds and equipment a
special endowment fund should be provided. The gate receipts from
games are too uncertain and even now quite inadequate for our needs.
The Athletic Association is at the present time struggling under a
heavy debt

Under present conditions we can scarcely provide for the men
trying for the several Varsity teams. All other men are crowded out
or receive of necessity scant consideration. This is the vital mistake
of the present system of student mahitenance. If athletic sports
have any intrinsic value, and the day of doubt as to that is undoubt-
edly past, our aim must be to achieve the general well-being of the
greatest number rather than the highest specialization of the few. I
am convinced that the number of men participating regularly in out-
of-door sports would be doubled under the new conditions which I
have outlined above.

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES WINFRBD SAVAGE.

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Report of the Director of the Women's
Gymnasium

To the President :

Sib — ^The women In attendance at the Gymnasium were distri-
buted as follows:

The College— F<r«« Semester— 1905-06

Number In Credit In Other
in College CourMB Couraes

Graduates 7 0 0

Seniors 77 15 0

Juniors 78 22 4

Sophomores 90 45 4

Freshmen 124 54 0

Specials 36 5 6

Total 412 142 14

Second Semester

Graduates 5 0 0

Seniors 74 11 2

Juniors 76 18 2

Sophomores 91 34 1

Freshmen 112 44 0

Specials 33 0 0

Total 391 107 5

The Academy 149 104

The Conservatory 489 91

Drawing and Painting 27 1

Public School 8

Private Pupils 2

Number of women in College 1,082. Number attending Gym-
nasium, 370.

Physical examinatiohs were given to 241 new students, and 97
second examinations were made. Of the 97 who took the second ex-

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aminations, 86 report their health good; 9, not so good as the pre-
vious year.

Of this numl)er, 8 had called a physician once, 2 twice, 10 more
than three times, and 79 had not required the services of a physician
throughout the year.

The plan for securing more gymnasium room, given in last year*s
report, by adding another story to the brick building, was decided to
be inadvisable from an architectural standpoint A second plan of
building a brick addition on the south end was rejected on account of
expense. The third plan to model over Rockefeller Skating Floor was
adopted and carried out

The skating floor has been a source of pleasure to both students
and faculty. It was with regret that it was decided to use it for a
gymnasium, but the urgent need of more room and the lack of funds
for a new gymnasium made it seem advisable.

In order to adapt the building for its new purpose the roof was
raised 8 feet This gave space for a main room 95 feet long, by 50
wide, by 18 feet at the sides, and 28 feet in the center, with a visitors'
gallery at the east end. The first floor contains, in addition, an in-
structor's ottice, a recitation room, a resting room and the entrance
hall. On the second floor there is a dressing room with 120 lockers,
and a bath room with ten spray baths. The building is heated by
steam and lighted by electricity.

The cost of remodeling was $5,724.58. Of this amount $3,500 is
to be met by money given by the trustees. The remainder is to l)e
paid from the two-dollar gymnasium fees, which all women, as well
as men, are now required to pay. After the running expenses of the
new part are paid any surplus from these fees is to be applied on
the debt

During the ten years of the two years' Normal Course in Physical
Training (1892-1902) ail the money received from the term bills was
credited to the course and all expenses were borne by the course. At
the time the four years' course was begun (1901) there was a credit
balance of $887.68. If there had been any place to put it this
money would have been spent for much needed apparatus. The place
has now been provided and the money has been used to equip the
main room.

In all there are now 500 lockers. Should there be a demand for
more there is space for them.

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REPORT OF THE W0MEW8 GYMNASIUM 215

The addition means better work, more comfort, more women at-
tending gymnasium, and pleasant, well arranged rooms for social
occasions.

Miss Lila J. Wickwire, instructor in the gymnasium for the past
six years, resigned her position at the end of the year, to become
Director of Physical Training (for women) at Knox Ck>llege. The
director recognizes and gratefully acknowledges the valuable service
that Miss Wickwire rendered the department Miss Maud A. Monroe
who was elected to fill the place, is a graduate of the Teachers* CJourse
in Physical Training, Oberlin College, class of 1903. For the past
three years she has been instructor of physical training at Mount
Holyoke College. Miss Frances B, Jones, of the class of 1907, has
been acting as assistant for the past year. Miss Lora Fowler, who
has had charge of the gymnastics in the public school taught by
juniors in the Teachers' Course, has accepted the position of physical
director in the Y. W. C. A. of South Bend, Indiana.

The health of the young women of the institution during the past
year has been exceptionally good.

THE GYMNASIUM AND FIELD ASSOCIATION

There has been a steadily growing interest in the Association,
and more women each year participate in outdoor sports.

A canvass of the women of the College was made last spring, in
regard to the following sports, skating, tennis, basket ball, golf and
horseback riding.

The following is a summary of the reports : —

Nathat No. that No. that

Na that play ride do none

Na in Reports play No. that basket horse- No. that of

CoUesre from tennis skate ball back playffolf these

Graduates ..7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Seniors 78 72 57 50 22 20 4 9

Juniors 79 73 46 43 14 10 3 15

Sophomores . . 98 84 62 53 28 21 1 15

Freshmen... 120 106 75 67 23 21 13 19

Specials 40 24 18 14 4 8 0 4

Conservatory 489 208 124 117 15 46 6 49

Academy.... 149 94 44 55 5 19 0 27
Drawing

and Painting 27 6 6 30 1 0 0

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Money receiyed for the Recreation Field is as follows :

From lectures given to the women of the town and college,

by Dr. Runyon, on "First Aid to the Injured" $110.00

From concert given by the Conservatory Faculty 175.85

From Mrs. Ellen Wood, of Oberlln, check for 100.00

From payment on pledges 151.00

Interest 7«.37

Total $613.22

Plans are being matured for the purchase of the Recreation Field
and the Association hopes to be in possession before the end of the
year.

TEACHERS' COURSE IN PHYSICAL TBAINIKG (FOB WOMEN)

Receipts

From term bills of Seniors $712.50

Anatomy fees 24.00

Total receipts $73^50

Expenditures

Teaching $64a75

Books and periodicals 20.47

Apparatus 31.10

Printing, postage, express, freight 15.25

Music 5.70

Incidental expenses 6.40

Total expenditures $727.67

The eighteen lectures given last year, by Mr. Fauver, on Out Door
Sports were given this year by Mr. Jameson.

The number of students in the course was distributed as follows :

Seniors 11

Juniors 11

Sophomores 18

Freshmen 14

Total 54

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The total enrolment for the three preceding years was as follows :

1902^ 25

1903-04 39

1904-05 48

Respectfully submitted,

DBLPHINB HANNA.

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Report of the Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds

To the President:

Sib — Since my last report the college has sold the Laughlin resi-
dence property on East CJoUege street and the Thompson property on
North Professor street

The most important work done this year was the enlargement of
the Rockefeller Skating Rink into a building for a Women's Qymna-
sium. Interior plans were made by Dr. Hanna and the specifications
and plans for the exterior changes and details of construction were
prepared by Patton and Miller of Chicago. The roof was raised ten
feet, giying a wall height of eighteen feet The trusses were strength-
ened and thoroughly braced. The new building contains one large
room, 50 by 95 feet, a recitation room, Director's office, rest room, and
closets on the first fioor, and a spectator's gallery, locker room, and
bath room on the second fioor. This building is very well adapted to
its new use. The cost of the improvement, exclusive of apparatus,
lockers and bath fittings, was $5,718.87.

By order of the State Inspector of Public Buildings, fire es-
capes in addition to those already erected were placed on Baldwin
Cottage, Talcott Hall, Warner Hall, Council Hall, and the Straus
Block. Additional fire doors were put between adjoining rooms Ui
Baldwin Cottage, Lord Cottage, Talcott Hall, and Council Hall. The
total cost of this work was $1,105.54. The safety of the students
in these buildings in case of fire Is now thoroughly provided for.

In anticipation of the commencement of work on the new Li-
brary building this fall the Squire House was moved from the comer
of West Lorain and North Professor streets to the lot immediately
south of Stewart Hall on North Main street The Prudential Com-
mittee having decided to use this building for college purposes the
work of adapting it for the use of the Geological Department is now
In progress. The changes when completed will furnish an office, reci-
tation room, large and small laboratory, work and store room on the
first fioor ; one large room for the Geological Museum and three reci-
tation rooms for general college use on the second fioor. The cost
of moving the building was $738.65, and the estimated cost of the
changes is $800.00.

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REPORT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 219

A system of gongs, to be rung automatically at the begiimlng of
recitation hours from a central clock, was installed during the summer
in the following buildings : Sturges Hall, Women's Gymnasium, War-
ner Hall, Warner Gymnasium, Peters Hall, Botanical Laboratory,
Severance Chemical Laboratory, Council Hall, Spear Library, So-
ciety Hall, and French Hall. The cost was $115.46.

The land belonging to the college back of Warner Gymnasium
was leveled and graded and made Into tennis courts.

Several new rooms were finished in the basement of Warner Hall
and a stairway leading to the basement was put into the west end of
the west hall.

A new cement walk was laid in front of the Straus Block on
Main street and the old stone walk relaid on its East College street
side, at a total cost of $226.45.

Several of the rented houses owned by the college have required
new furnaces this year.

About $100 was expended on the Arboretum last year in making
paths and in removing underbrush and poison ivy. Fifty dollars
a year for the next two years should be appropriated to make this
improvement permanent

Respectfully submitted,

C. P. DOOLITTLE.

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Statistics of Instruction
and Attendance

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Year of 1905-06

The schedule numbers in the following tables refer to the courses
as described in the catalogue for 1904-05.

In science courses the hours of instruction spent by the teacher
in laboratory work are marked with the letter "L," the letter "R"
being used to denote hours in regular recitation.

I. THE COLLEGE

INSTRUCTOR AND OOURSE

Anatomy

Professor LEONABa
Human Anatomy (credit: 3 hours) . . I

Astronomy

Professor St. John.
Assistant Malloby.

1. Genera] Astronomy (credit: 3

hours) I

2. General Astronomy (credit: 3

hours) II

Bible

Mr. BoHN.

4. Old Testament Prophecy II

Associate Professor Fitch.

X. Freshman Bible I

148

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INSTRUCTOR AND GOUROB

Bible (Continued)

President Kino and Professor Boswobth.

9. Senior Bible I

10. Senior Bible II

Bibliography

Professor Root.

2. Use of Libraries II

3. History of the Printed Book I

4. Illustration of Books II

Botany

Professor Gboveb.
Assistant Miss Stabb.
Assistant Doebing.

1. Elementary Botany (credit: 4

hours) I

2. Elementary Botany (credit: 4

hours) II

3. . Organic Evolution I

4. General Ecology (credit: 4

hours) II

6. Dendrology (credit: 2 hours).. II

7. Class, of Flowering Plants. ... I

8. Class, of Flowering Plants II

9. Class, of Algse I

10. Class, of Algse II

11. Plant Anatomy I

Chemistry

Professor Jewett.
Instructor Taylob.
Assistant Chapin.

1. Inorganic Chemistry (2 sec.)

(credit : 5 hours) I

2. Qualitative Analysis (credit: 5

hours) II

3. Quantitative Analysis (credit:

5 hours) I

2
2
2

56
67

4
0
3

80
77

20
11
16

L12

R 2

LIO

R 2

R 3

LIO

R 2

L13

R 2

L 1

L 3

L 1

L 2

LOO

R 6

L60

R 2

L20

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INSTRUCTOR AND COUR8B

Chemistry (Continued)

4. Organic Chemistry (credit: 5

hours) II

5. Electro-Chemlstry (credit: 3

hours) I

-. Electro-Chemlstry (credit: 3

hours) II

6. Quantitative Analysis (credit:

5 hours) II

7. Assaying (credit: 1 hour) I

Christian Eridences

Professor Wbioht.

Logic of Christian Evidences. . II

Clatsical Archaeology

Professor Maiitin.

1. History of Ancient Art I

2. History of Ancient Art II

3. Explanation of Selected Monu-

ments I

4. Explanation of Selected Monu-

ments II

Professor Cole.
10. Monuments of Ancient Rome.. II
12. Private Life of the Romans II

Economics and Sociology

Associate Professor Wolfe.

1. Elementary Economics I

2. Elementary Economics II

6. Economic History of U. S I

6. Modern Industrial Organization II

12. Socialism and Social Reform.. II

13. Sociology I

15. Economic Seminar I

16. Economic Seminar II

L 6

R 3

LIO

R 1

LIO

R 1

LIO

L 2

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DfSTBUCTOR AND COUB8B

Engli«h Composition

Tnstmctor Huston.

1. Freshman Ck>mpo8itloD (5 sec.). I

2. Freshman Ck>mpositlon (5 6ec.) . II

7. Principles of Style I

8. Course for Teachers II

Instructor Pen nock.

3. Sophomore Composition (4 sec.) I

4. Sophomore Composition (4 sec.) II

5. Advanced Composition I

6. Advanced Composition II

English Literature

Instructor Huston.

1. History of English Literature. . I

2. History of English Literature. . II
Instructor Pennock.

1. History of English Literature

(2 sec.) I

2. History of English Literature

(2 sec.) II

Professor Wager.

5. Chaucer and Literature of 14th

and 15th Centuries I

6. Chaucer and Literature of 14th

and 15th Centuries II

9. Shakespeare I

10. Shakespeare / II

11. Seminar in Elizabethen Lyric. I

12. Seminar in Elizabethen Lyric. II

13. Victorian Prose I

14. Victorian Poetry II

17. History of English Language.. I
Jd. History of English Language.. II

French

Professor Wiqhtman.

1. Beginning French I

2. Beginning French II

140

131

107

104

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IN8TBUCTOB AND COURSE

French (Contiiraed)

3. Grammar and Reading I

4. Qrammar and Reading II

11. Prose of 17th and 18th Century I

12. Prose of 18th and 19th Century II

19. History of French Literature. . I

20. History of French Literature.. II
Associate Professor CiOwdebt.

1. Beginning French (2 sec.) I

2. Beginning French (2 sec.) II

3. Grammar and Reading I

4. Grammar and Reading II

5. Composition I

6. Composition II

7. Conversation I

8. Conversation II

13. Drama of 17th Century I

14. Drama of 18th and 19th Cen-

tury II

17. Advanced Composition I

18. Advanced Composition II

Instructor Jameson.

1. Beginning French I

2. Beginning French II

5. Composition I

6. Composition II

Geology

Instructor Bsanson.

1. General Geology (credit: 5

hours) I

4. Paleontology (credit: 2 hours). II
8. Economic Geology (credit: 3

hours) II

Professor Wbight.

6. Quaternary G^logy (credit: 3

hours) II

L
R
L
R
L
R

R 3

8
3

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German

Professor Abbott.

1. Beginning German I

2. Beginning German II

5. Third Year (2 sec.) I

6. Third Year (2 sec) II

9. Rapid Reading... I

10. Rapid Reading II

Instructor Myebs.

1. Beginning German (2 sec.) I

2. Beginning German (2 sec.) 11

3. Second Year (2 sec.) I

4. Second Year (2 sec.) II

Instructor Hagens.

3. Second Year (2 sec.) I

4. Second Year (2 sec.) II

13. Goethe and Schiller I

14. Goethe's Faust II

15. History of German Literature. . I

16. History of German Literature. . II

Greek

Instructor Lobd.

1. Beginning Greek (credit: 5

hours) I

2. Beginning Greek (credit: 5

hours) II

Professor Mabtin.

3. Freshman Greek I

4. Freshman Greek II

5. Homer, The Iliad I

6. Homer, The Iliad II

15. Greek Tragedy I

16. Greek Tragedy II

History

Professor Johnston.

1. History of Spain I

2. History of Italy II

r«

4
4

4
4
2
2
3
3

2.
2

4
2

5
20

12
11

11
12
2
2
G
6

41
58

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INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

Hutory (Continued)

3. Medieeval History I

4. History of CiTilizaUon II

5. Renaissance Painting I

6. Middle Age Architecture II

Professor Milleb.

7. History of Greece I

a History of Greece II

Italian

Professor Wiohtmaw.

1. Italian I

2. Italian II

Latin

Professor Cole.

1. Freshman Latin I

2. Freshman Latin II

3. Tacitus I

4. Horace and Terence II

9. Latin Writing I

10. Latin Writing II

11. Cicero (2 Sec.) I

12. Cicero (2 sec.) II

17. Juvenal and Martial I

18. Martial and Tacitus II

Instructor Lobd.

1. Freshman Latin (3 sec.) I

2. Freshman Latin (3 sec.) II

Mathematics

Professor Andebeoo.

1. Freshman Mathematics I

2. Freshman Mathematics II

9. Advanced Analytic Geometry.. I

10. Advanced Analytic Geometry. .. II

11. Calculus I

12. Calculus II

13. Advanced Calculus I

14. Advanced Calculus II

16. Advanced Algebra I

16. Advanced Algebra II

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INSTBUCTOB AND COURSB

Mathematics (Contmued)

Instructor Abmstbono.

1. Freshman Mathematics (3 sec.)- I

2. Freshman Mathematics (3 sec) . II

5. Mechanical Drawing (credit: 2

hours) I

6. Mechanical Drawing (credit: 2

hours) II

7. C:k)IIege Algebra I

8. College Algebra II

Instructor Luckey.

1. Freshman Mathematics (2 sec.). I

2. Freshman Mathematics (2 sec.). II
Tutor Hill.

1. Freshman Mathematics I

2. Freshman Mathematics II

Mineralogy
Professor Jewett.

Mineralogy (credit: 5 hours)... II

Musical History

Professor Dickinson.

3. History and Criticism of Music

(credit: 3 hours) I

4. History and Criticism of Music

(credit : 3 hours) II

5. Modem Composers I

6. Modem Composers II

Oratory

Professor Casket.

1. Oratory (2 sec.) I

2. Oratory (2 sec.) I

3. Argumentation and Debate I

4. Argumentation and Debate II

6. Dramatic Reading II

L 6

R 0

L 5

R 1

L 5

R 3

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1N8TRUCTOB AND GOUmSB

Pedagogy

Professor Milleb.

1. History of Education I

2. Theory of Education II

3. Ck)mparatlye School Systems... I

4. Organization and Administra-

tion of Schools II

Philosophy

Professor MacLennan.

1. Logic I

2. Ethics II

3. Psychology I

4. History of Philosophy II

5. Experimental Psychology (cred-

it: 2 hours) I

6. Experimental Psychology (cred-

it: 2 hours) II

11. Masterpieces of Philosophy.... I

12. Masterpieces of Philosophy II

13. Metaphysic I

14. Metaphysic II

President Kino.

9. MIcrocosmus I

10. MIcrocosmus II

Phytical Training

Dr. Hanna and Miss Wickwibe.

1. Elementary (women) (2 sec.).. I

2. Elementary (women) (2 sec.).. II
Instructor Miss Wickwibe.

3. Advanced (women) (2 sec.).... I

4. Advanced (women) (2 sec.)... II
Instructor Jameson.

1. Elementary (men) (2 sec.).... I

2. Elementary (men) (2 sec) II

3. Advanced (men) I

4. Advanced (men) II

L 8

R 0

L 8

R 0

L 6

' 0

L 6

L 3

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Physics

Professor St. John.
Instructor Luckey,

1. Mechanics, Sound and Heat

(credit : 5 hours) I

2. Electricity, Magnetism and

Light (credit : 5 hours) .... II

3. Electricity and Magnetism (Ad-

vanced) (credit: 4 hours).. I

4. Electricity and Magnetism (Ad-

vanced) (credit: 4 hours).. II

5. Light and Heat (Advanced)

(credit : 4 hours) I

6. Light and Heat (Advanced)

(credit : 4 hours) II

7. Theory of Electricity and Mag-

netism I

8. Theory of Electricity and Mag-

netism II

Physiology

Professor Leonard.
Physiology and Hygiene II

Political Science

Associate Professor Wolfe.

6. International Law II

Zoology

Associate Professor Jones.

1. Elementary (credit: 4 hours) .

2. Elementary (credit: 4 hours)..

3. dJomparative Anatomy of Ver-

tebrates (credit: 5 hours).. I

4. Vertebrate Histology (credit: 5

hours) II

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Statistics of Instbuction and Attendance — (Continued)

INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

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Zoology (Continuecl)

6. Ornithology (credit: 2 hours).. II

7. Ornithology 2 (credit: 2 hours). I
9. Embryology (credit: 5 hours).. I

Temchert' Course in Physical Trminiiig

Professor Leonab^

Fencing I

Theory of Physical Training I

History of Physical Training I

History of Physical Training II

Physical Examination and Prescrip-
tion of Exercise II

Practical Gymnastics II

Professor Hanna.

Applied Anatomy I

Physical Examination and Diagnosis I

Medical Gymnastics (1) II

Medical Gymnastics (2) II

Instructor Dr. Runyon.

Emergencies I

Human Anatomy II

Instructor Jameson.

Physical Training ( Special ) I

Physical Training (Special) II

Theory of Games II

Theory of Play and Games II

Instructor Miss Wickwibe.

Theory of Play and Games II

Practical Work and Teaching I

Assistant Miss Fowleb.

Practical Work and Teaching I

Practical Work and Teaching II

Assistant Miss Jones.

Practical Work and Teaching I

Practical Work and Teaching II

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II. THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Statistics of Instruction and Attendakce — {Continued)

Old Testament

Professor Fuixerton.

History of Israel III I

Hebrew a I

Hebrew d I

Hebrew e II

General Introduction— Old Testament II

Beginning Hebrew I

Beginning Hebrew II

New Testament
Professor Boswobth.

Special Introduction II .' I

New Testament a I

New Testament a II

New Testament b II

New Testament c I

Teachings of Jesus II

Theology

President Kino.

Systematic I

Harmony of Science and Rerelation

Professor Wright.

Apologetics II

Origin and Antiquity of Human Race II

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Statistics of Instruction aih) Attendance — (Continued)

IN8TBUCTOB AND C017B8B

Homiletics

Professor Gubbieb.

Theol. Encyclopedia

Homiletlcs a

Homiletlcs b

Sermon Plan Ck)n8truction.
Sermon Plan Construction.

Preaching Exercises

Practical Theology a

Practical Theology b

Missions

Social Problems

Sermon Criticism

Oratory

Professor Casket.

Elocution a

Elocution b

II
I

Slavic Department

Professor Miskovsky.

New Testament Greek I

New Testament Greek II

Apologetics I

Logic I

Ethics II

Psychology II

History I

General History II

Bohemian I

Bohemian Syntax II

English Literature II

English Grammar II

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III. THE ACADEMY

Statistics of Instruction and Attendance — (Continued)

INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE

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Bible

Professor Peck.

Senior Fall

Senior Winter

Senior Spring

Tutor Ellis.

Middle Fall

Middle Winter

Middle Spring

Associate Professor Shaw.

Junior Middle Fall

Junior Middle Winter

Junior Middle Spring

Tutor Dick.

Junior Fall

Junior Winter

Junior Spring

Instructor Miss Smith e.

Irregular Fall

Irregular Winter

Irregular Spring

Botany

Tutor Sackett.

Beginning (credit : 4 hours) Fall

Beginning (credit : 4 hours) Winter

Beginning (credit : 4 hours) Spring

Dendrology (credit : 2 hours) Spring

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Statistics op Instruction and Attendance — (Continued)

INSTBUCTOR AND GOUB8B

Declamatloii

Instructor Ellis^

Declamation Fall

Declamation Winter

Declamation Spring

Declamation Fall

Declamation Winter

Declamation Spring

English

Instructor Miss Thompson.

English I (2 sec.) Fall

English II (2 sec.) Winter

English III (2 sec) Spring

English Grammar Fall

. English Grammar Winter

English Grammar Spring

Instructor Miss Bbownback.

English IV a (2 sec.) Fall

English V a (2 sec.) Winter

English VI a (2 sec.) Spring

English VII (3 sec.) Fall

English VIII (3 sec.) Winter

English IX (3 sec.) Spring

English X (2 sec.) Fall

English XI (2 sec.) Winter

English XII (2 sec.) Spring

Instructor Mrs. Fabgo.

English IV a Fall

English V a Winter

English VI a Spring

English IV b Fall

English V b Winter

English VI b Spring

Tutor Dick.

English IV b (2 sec.) Fall

English V b (2 spc.) Winter

English VI b (2 sec.) Spring

English XIII Fall

English XIV Winter

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Statistics of Instbuction and Attbmdance — (Continued)

IN8TRUCTOB AND OOUB8B

Engli»h (Continued)

English XV Spring

English XIX ( 2 sec) Fall

English Composition (2 sec.) Winter

Tutor Ellis.

English XVI Fall

English XVII Winter

English XVIII Spring

French

Tutor Mrs. Cowdebt.

French I (2 sec.) Fall

French I. . ; Winter

French II (2 sec) Winter

French II Spring

. French III (2 sec.) Spring

French IV Fall

French V Winter

French VI Spring

German

Tutor Miss McDaniels.

German I (3 sec) Fall

German II (3 sec) Winter

German III ( 3 sec) Spring

German IV Fall

German V Winter

German VI Spring

Instructor Myebs.

German V •. Winter

German VI Spring

Miss Penfuxd.

German I Winter

Greek

Professor Peck.

Greek I Fall

Greek II Winter

Greek III Spring

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Statistics of Instruction and Attendance — (Continued)

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Greek (Confinued)

Greek IV Fall

Greek V Winter

Greek VI Spring

History

Tutor WlBKLEB.

History I Fall

History 11 Winter

History III Spring

History IV Fall

History V Winter

History VI Spring

History VII Fall

History VIII Winter

History IX Spring

Utin

Associate Professor Hosfobd.

Latin I (2 sec.) Fall

Latin II (2 sec.) Winter

Latin III (2 sec.) Spring

Latin X (2 sec.) Fall

Latin XI (2 sec.) Winter

Latin XII (2 sec.) Spring

Instructor Miss Smithk.

Latin I Winter

Sub-Latin I Fall

Latin II Fall

Latin II » . . Spring

Latin III Fall

Latin III Winter

Latin IV Winter

Latin IV Spring

Latin V Spring

Associate Professor Shaw.

Latin IV (2 sec.) Fall

T^tln V (2 sec.) Winter

Latin VI (2 sec.) Spring

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Statistics of Instruction and Attendance — {Continued)

Latin (Continued)

Latin VII a (2 sec.) Fall

Latin VIII a (2 sec.) Winter

Latin IX a Spring

Latin IX b Spring

Mathematics

Tutor BxTBB.

Algebra II Spring 5

Tutor MooBE.

Algebra I (2 sec.) Pall 10

Algebra II ( 2 sec.) Winter 10

Algebra III (2 sec.) Spring 10

Algebra IV (2 sec.) Fall 4

Algebra V (2 sec.) Winter 4

Algebra VI (2 sec.) Spring 4

Geometry I Winter 4

Geometry II Spring 4

Geometry III Fall 4

Tutor Hill.

Geometry I (2 sec.) Fall 8

Geometry II (2 sec.) Winter 8

Geometry II Spring 4

Geometry III Spring 4

Algebra VII Fall 5

Algebra VIII Winter 5

Algebra IX Spring 5

Mechanical Drawing Fall 5

Mechanical Drawing Winter 5

Mechanical Drawing Spring 5

Tutor WlBKLEB.

Arithmetic Fall 6

Arithmetic Winter 5

Arithmetic Spring 5

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Physics

Tutor BuBB.

Physics I (2 sec.) Fall

Physics II (2 sec.) Winter

Physics III (2 sec.) Spring

Zoology
Tutor Sackett.

Zoology I Fall

Zoology II Winter

Zoology III Spring

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Report of the Treasurer
1906

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Treasurer's Statement

To THE BOABD OF TRUSTEES OF ObEBLIN Ck)LLEGE : —

The Treasurer of the College submits his Annual Statement for
the year ending August 31, 1906, as follows :

The funds separately invested are:
C. G. Finney Memorial Fund —

Principal Net

AusuBt 81, 1906 Income

Mortgages .' $79,700.00

Cash 6,347.60

$86,047.60 $4,754.11

Springer Fund —

Cleveland real estate 5,135.91 253.82

Foltz Fund^

Bonds 648.00 24.00

Totals $91,731.51 $5,031.93

The other funds are invested as a whole. A summary statement
of these Investments with the net income thereof, is as follows :

Principal
AuffUBt 81. 1906

Notes and Mortgages $466,699.11

Stocks and Bonds $619,024.50

Collateral loans 187,992.59

Real estate 417,469.38

Time Deposits (Savings and Trust Co.'s) 10,500.00

Sundry accounts 126,599.69

Loan to General l^^und 5,162.03

Deposits subject to check and cash 82,789.09 Net

Income

Total of general investments $1,916,236.39 $83,428.69

Total of special Investments 91,731.51

$2,007,967.90
The above investments are.stated in detail, beginning at page 265
of this report

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246 REPORT OF THE TREASURER

The net income of general Investments has been divided at the
rate of 4.8 per cent among the funds to which they belong.

An item of Advances to Gymnasium, $436.98, which has been
carried as an asset, was charged off in the expense account of the
University. An item of Advances to the English Ck)urse, $1,088.74,
was charged off in the expense account of the Theological Seminary,
being balanced by an equal credit from the unappropriated income of
the Walworth Fund.

The excess of income over expense in the accounts of University,
(College, Academy and Theological Seminary, combined as usual, was
$5,788.86, which being subtracted from the accumulated deficits of
previous years, $10,950.89, leaves $5,162.03' as the total unpaid de-
ficit on August 31, 1906.

Oi1i8 have been received during the year as follows:

GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USE.

From Mrs. Mary Kate Potter, $25.00 for current expense.

From A. D. Sturges, $100.00 for a dormitory for women.

From Thomas A. Hall, $200.00 for the purchase of apparatus for
the Department of History.

From Charles M. Hall, $500.00 for the purchase of books for
the Department of Mathematics.

From Dudley P. Allen, $200.00 for improvements in the Women's
Gymnasium.

From Charles M. Hall, $500.00 for improvements in the Women's
Gymnasium.

From the Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, $61.45 for aid
to students in the Theological Seminary.

From "A Friend," $300.00 for the Library.

From J. J. McKelvey, $547.50 for the Library.

Sundry gifts for the Women's Recreation Field, $536.85.

From members of the Living Endowment Union, $2^214.35 for
current expense.

For the support of the Slavic Department in the Theological
Seminary from —

Miss Olive K. Norris $ 6.00

Ohio W. H. M. U 81.00

Congregational Education Society 335.00

Bethlehem Congregational Church and S. S., Cleveland 17.66

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First Congregational Church, Oberlin $ 15.89

Second Congregational Church, Oberlin '. 5.53

For Employment Fund for Seminary students from —

J. F. Berry $ 5.00

H. R. Core 5.00

Benjamin James 5.00

George T. Nichols 4.10

Hastings H. Hart 20.00

Mrs. H. W. Woodford 10.00

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimball 50.00

Miss M. E. Gibbs 25.00

Ambrose K. Ely 100.00

C. A. Coffin 50.00

"A Friend" 100.00

Congregational Church, North Columbus 9.90

Pilgrim Church, Cleveland 150.00

Kinsman Street Congregational Church, Cleveland 13.50

The total amount of these gifts for immediate use is $6492,63.

This amount is distributed in the Statement of Income and Ex-
pense am^ng the following accounts:

University .$1,882.90

College, special accounts 15.00

Theological Seminary, special accounts.. 1,078.93

Library 1,412.50

Miscellaneous 1,803.30

$6,192.f53

GIFTS TO FORM NEW FUNDS OB INCREASE OLD ONES.

From F. M. Hayes, of Buffalo, $40.00 for endowment
From S. D. Strong, of Oak Park, $12.50 for endowment
From S. F. Cooper, of Campbell, Cal., $880.00 for endowment
From Alfred Glllett, of Oberlin, $5,000.00 for endowment
From an anonymous donor, $100,000.00 for endowment
From the estate of Caroline E. Haskell, of Michigan City, Ind.,
$26,879.a3, part of her bequest to Oberlin College.

From the estate of Caroline E. Haskell, of Michigan City, Ind.,
$20,000.00 ; her bequest to found the Haskell Lectureship in the The-
ological Seminary.

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248 REPORT OF THE TREASURER

From Ml88 Anne Walworth, of Cleveland, $75,000.00; her gift to
Oberlln Ck)llege.

From the estate of Miss Anne Walworth, of Cleveland, $5,000.00;
part of her bequest to Oberlln College.

From Miss Kora F. Barnes, of New York, $5,000.00 for the Art
Building.

' From L. H. Severance, of New York, $3,804.00; additional gift
to the Maintenance Fund for the Severance Chemical Laboratory.

From Miss Grace Sherwood, of Chicago, $5,000.00, her gift for
the John Henry Barrows Memorial Building.

From the estate of Edward A. Goodnow, of Worcester, Mass.;
$5,000.00, his bequest to found the Goodnow Scholarships.

From the estate of Mrs. Ella J. Gilchrist-Potter, of Alpena, Mich.,
$9,500.00; her bequest (less Inheritance tax) to found the Gilchrist
Banking Flind for students of Oberlln College.

From the estate of Mrs. Ella J. Gilchrist-Potter, of Alpena, Mich.,
$4,750.00; her bequest (less Inheritance tax) to found the Gilchrist-
Potter Scholarship Fund.

From the Class of 1898, $250.00; payments on subscriptions to a
new class fund.

From the sale of a lot In Toledo, $320.00 ; part of a gift of W. W.
Griffith, of Toledo, for endowment

From Mrs. T. W. Jones, $5.00 for the John Henry Barrows
Memorial Building.

From the sale of the Plumb farm In Iowa, $4,000.00; an addi-
tion to the Ralph Plumb Fund.

From Alumni, $559.35, part payments on subscriptions to the
Class Reunion FNmds.

For additional endowment of the Library from —

Mrs. Helen G. Cobum.$ 600.00 F.R.Simmons $ 50.00

Charles M; Hall 5,000.00 William A. Bo wen 100.00

Mrs. Lawson Valentine 500.00 Miss Grace H. Dodge.. 1,000.00
Mrs. Frederick Billings 200.00 Mrs. Elbert B. Monroe.. 50.00

George B. Harris 200.00 John G. Jennings 25.00

James O. Troup 500.00 Zenas Crane 100.00

G. M. D. Grigsby 1.000.00 Alexander Hadden .... 50.00

E. A. West 1,000.00 Irving W. Metcalf 1.000.00

William H. Day 100.00 Mrs. Mary T. Castle. . . . 100.00

D. Willis James 10,000.00 F. N. Finney 2,000.00

Frank A. Day 100.00 Merritt Starr 100.00

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Thomas H. Tracy

100.00

W. N. Gates

500.00

D. R. Burrell

500.00

Anonymous donors ..

. 2,360.00

REPORT OF THE TREASURER 249

Charles F. Cox $ 1,000.00 L. H. Severance $5,000.00

Mrs. F. E. Case 100.00

W. L. Tenney 60.00

H. D. Laflferty. 1,000.00

Dudley P. Allen 1,000.00

Estate of Mrs. Abbie R. Kendall $ 475.00

Estate of Mrs. Helen G. Cobum 9,463.20

The total amount of these gifts to capital account is $316,223.68,
as shown on page 25G of this report.

Endoicments for current expenses now stand on the hooks as follows:

General or University Endowments $883,473.05

College Department Endowments 409,362.85

Academy

Theological Seminary 151,446.44

Conservatory of Music 30,419.50

Library 69,595.46

Total $1,544,297.30

The accounts hereinafter presented are:

First, a set of tables showing the current income and expense of
each Department In detail, accounts of general Interest being placed
under the heading "University."

Second, a list of all the Funds and Balances in care of the Treas-
urer, showing their amounts at the beginning and end of the year.

Third, a classified list of the properties or assets in the hands of
the Treasurer.

Fourth, a list of buildings, grounds, apparatus, etc.. In use for
College purposes, and not valued on the Treasurer's books.

JAMES R. SEVERANCE, Treasurer.

Obebun, December 5, 1906.

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REPORT OF THE TREASURER

Statement of Income and Expense lor the Year

UNIVERSITY

INCOME

From invested funds (less $4464.19) trans-
ferred to Theological Seminary % 27,822.77

From rent of houses and lands not valued. . . . 212.01

Interest on subscriptions to endowment 48.00

Gifts for current expense 1,882.90

Biography of Charles G. Finney 70.66

Quinquennial catalogues 95.80

Total income $ 80,132.04

EXPENSE

Salaries— President's office $5,900.00

Treasurer's office 4,000.00

Secretary's office 2,200.00

• Library 2,375.00

Gymnasia 3,600.00— $18,075.00

Clerks 1,797.28

Stationery, printing and postage 4,107*49

Advertising 739.83

Fuel and lights 1,529.01

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 3,909.03

Men's Gymnasium 1,123.45

Women's Gymnasium 876.74

Outside Representation 335.14

Library appropriation for Ixwks 1,500.00

Summer School Normal Courses 189.33

Sundry expense 627.48

Alumni dinner 469.84

Payments on I^rd and HInchman Funds (in

excess of income) 33.54

Olney Art Collection 1,095.25

Agency expense 1,262.99

Annuity Haskell Fund 700.00

Advances to Gymuasium repaid 436.98

Total expense $ 38,808.38

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Special Accounts — Receipts

Art School fees $ 1,111.90

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium . . 736.50

Teachers* Course, Men's Gymnasium 75.00

Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 96.00

Jones Loan Fund, loans returned 487.70

May Moulton Loan Fund, loans returned. 54.00

Scholarship Funds, from Inyestments 2,005.94

Scholarship Loan Fund, loans returned.. 728.49

Skating Floor 84.58

$ 5,380.11
Special Accounts — Payments

Art School $ 1,111.90

Teachers' Course, Women's Gymnasium . . 796.12

Teachers' Course, Men's Gymnasium 75.00

Jones Loan Fund, loans made 740.00

May Moulton Loan E\ind, loans made 300.00

To holders of scholarship orders 2,015.44

Scholarship loans 413.00

Advances to scholarships repaid 97.48

Skating floor 66.79

$ 5,615.73

COLLEGE

INCOME

From invested funds $19,466.82

Term bills 48,389.43

Graduate fees 680.00

Total income $ 68,536.25

EXPENSE

Salaries $42,650.42

Clerks 251.70

Stationery, printing and postage 463.55

Amount carried forward $43,365.67

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Amount brought forward $43,365.67

Outside representation 80.20

Fuel and lights 1,572.31

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 4,409.04

Diplomas 150.85

Sundry expense 16.72

Museum 400.00

Herbarium 175.00

Apparatus, Physical Laboratory 400.00

Apparatus, Zoological Laboratory 50.50

Apparatus, Botanical Laboratory 191.60

Apparatus Psychology 197.20

Trustee Scholarships 744.05

Avery Scholarships 363.00

Oberlln College Scholarships 93.00

Total expense $ 52,209.14

Special Accounts — Receipts

Chemical Laboratory fees $ 1,781.71

Botanical Laboratory fees 237.20

Zoological Laboratory fees $608.50

Zoological Laboratory gift 5.00

613.50

Physical Laboratory fees $278.20

Physical Laboratory gift... 10.00

288.20

Archffiology fees $289.00

from Art Exhibit 291.16

from Shorey Lecture.. 12.80

592.96

Anatomy fees 40.00

Herbarium bal. appropriation 54.14

Scholarship funds from Investments 1,200.00

$ 4,807.71
Special Accounts — Payments

Chemical Laboratory $ 1,410.00

Botanical Laboratory 130.68

Amount carried forward $ 1,540.68

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Amount brought forward $ 1,540.68

Zoological Laboratory 864.64

Physical Laboratory 244.91

Archaeology 298.34

Anatomy 39.00

To holders of scholarship orders 985.35

Advances to scholarships repaid 32.65

$ 4,005.57

ACADEMY

INCOME

Term bills $ 15,045.00

EXPENSE

Salaries $14,100.00

Clerks 288.90

Stationery, printing and postage 575.87

Fuel and lights 393.09

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 740.27

Advertising 275.00

Sundry expense 3.63

Diplomas 30.00

Equipment 100.00

Trustee scholarships 684.00

Total expense $ 17,190.76

Special Accounts — Receipts

Physical Laboratory $ 156.00

Botanical and Zoological Laboratory 91.00

Athletic fees 121.25

Equipment, balance appropriation 52.90

$ 421.15

Special Accounts — Payments

Physical Laboratory $ 183.55

Botanical and Zoological Laboratory 39.59

Athletic fees 112.40

$ 335.54

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THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

INCOlfB

From invested funds $ 6.128^

Transfer from University 4,164.19

From Walworth Fund 1,088.74

Term bills and rent of rooms 1,635.21

Diplomas 81.00

Reserve, 1904-5 372.71

Total Income $ 13,470.24

EXPENSE

Salaries $ 9,684.00

Clerks 89.82

Stationery, printing and postage 167.15

Advertising 78.45

Fuel and lights 862.93

Buildings and grounds, care and repairs 1,080.00

Sundry expense 109.95

Outside representation 25.35

Advances to English Ck)urse repaid (bal.) 1,088.74

Total expense $ 13,186.39

Special Accounts — Receipts
Slavic Department —

From invested funds $2,564.48

Loan repaid 5.00

Gifts for current expense 459.98

$ 3,029.46

Scholarship Funds —

From investments $ 986.01

Gifts 61.45

Loans repaid 226.60

$1,274.06

Student Employment Fund, gifts 557 JM)

$ 4,861.02

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Special Accounts— Payments

Slavic Department $ 3,029.46

To holders of scholarship orders 1,246.00

Student Employment Fund 759.31

$ 5,034.77

CONSERVATORY

INCOME

Term bills $61,842.46

From invested funds 2,493.70

Recital tickets 2,170.32

Diplomas 280.00

Rent of Williams house (net) 146.23

Total income $ 66,932.71

EXPENSE

Salaries $42,043.51

Library 729.11

Stationery, printing and postage 654.24

Advertising 700.19

Piano and organ tuning and repair 3,898.37

Fuel and lights 1,927.91

Clerks 150.15

Insurance .• 193.89

Janitor and engineers 1,834.09

Supplies and repairs 2,349.12

Purchase of instruments 4,838.61

Artist recitals 4,005.00

Sundry expense 103.75

Electric power 745.72

Total expense $ 64,173.66

Special Accounts — Receipts

Loan Fund, loans returned $ 879.20

Special Accounts — Payments

Loan Fund, loans made $ 696.50

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UBRARY

INCOME

From invested funds $ 1,168.86

Dividend, G. F. Harvey CJompany 60.00

Term bills 1,467.26

private examinations 559.00

Registrar's fees 213.80

Books and supplies sold 21.90

Gifts for current expense and purchase of books 1,412.50

Interest on subscriptions to endowment 12.00

Trustee appropriation 1,500.00

Total Income ' $ 6,415.31

EXPENSE

Librarian's assistants % 1,737.66

Binding of books 298.24

Express and postage 29.44

Case Library fee 10.00

Supplies .* 209.97

Wilson Bulletins 36.00

Purchase of books 3,207.74

Total expense $ 5,529.05

MISCELLANEOUS

RECEIPTS

Finney Memorial Fund, interest $ 4,754.11

Foltz Tract Fund, interest 24.00

Annuity Funds, income 7,170.82

Summer School, fees $1,940.00

Summer School, special appropriation 189.33 — 2,129.33

Profit sale of lands 6,187.96

Sundry "Receipts 9,965.53

Gifts for immediate use 1,803.30

Gifts to form new funds or increase old ones. . . 316,223.68

Total receipts $ 348,25a73

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PAYMENTS

Finney Memorial Fund $ 2,500.00

Annuities 10,435.44

Summer School 2,129.33

Sundry payments 1,853.77

Total payments $ 16,918.54

Summary of the income and expense of the University, College,

Academy and Theological Seminary.

Income Expense Surplus Deficit

University $ 30,132.04 $ 38,808.38 $ 8,070.34

Ck)llege 68,530.25 52,209.14 16.327.11

Academy 15,045.00 17,190.76 2,145.76

Seminary 13,470.24 13,186.39 283.85

$127,183.53 $121,394.67 $ 16,610.96 $ 10,822.10

121,394.67 10,822.10

Surplus $ 5,788.86 $ 5,788.86

Summary showing the increase of Funds and Balances in the care of

the Treasurer

University, special accounts $ 5.380.11 $ 5,615.73

Collefje, special accounts 4,807.71 4,00.5.57

Academy, special accounts 421.15 335.54

Theological Seminary, special accounts 4,861.02 5,034.77

Conservatory, income and expense 66,932.71 64,173.66

Ck)nservatory, special accounts 879.20 696.50

Library, income and expense 6,415.31 5,529.05

Miscellaneous 348,258.73 16,918.54

$437,955.94 $102,309.36
102,309.36

Total increase of funds and balances

as shown on page 264 of this report $335,046.58

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Funds and Balances in the care of the Treasurer

UNIVERSITY

AuffUflt 31. 1906 AuflruBt 31. 1906

1173,495.86 Endowment 1173.548.36

17.514.89 Alumni Fund 17,514.89

24,475.00 E. I. Baldwin Fund 24,475.00

10,000.00 Henrietta Bissell Fund 10,000.00

31,429.41 James H. Fairchiid Professor-
ship 31,429.41

15,275.00 Anne Walworth Fund 95.275.00

38,000.00 Dickinson Fund 38,000.00

4,846.10 ClarisM M. Smith Fund 4.846.10

16,000.00 Ralph Plumb Fund 20.000.00

2.000.00 Truman P. Handy Fund 2.000.00

85.06 Shaw Fund 85.06

79.14 Latimer Fund 79.14

1,505.91 Butler Fund 1,505.91

158.45 Whipple Fund 158.45

340.25 Perry Fund 340.25

47.65 Ryder Fund 47.65

596.52 Davis Fund 586.49

44,838.39 Reunion Fund of 1900 (part) . . 45,397.74

38.500.00 William E. Osborn Fund 38,500.00

5,000.00 John Sherman Fund 5,000.00

200,000.00 John D. Rockefeller Fund 200,000.00

10,000.00 E. A. and C. B. Shedd Fund. .. 10.000.00

10.000.00 Marcus Lyon Fund 10,000.00

5.000.00 Warner Gymnasium Endow-
ment 5,000.00

10.000.00 OIney Fund 10.000.00

2,803.97 Keith Fund 2,803.97

Anonymous Fund 100,000.00

Haskell Fund 26,879.63

5.000.00 Kora F. Barnes Fund 10,000.00—1 883,473.05

2,711.57 C. N. Pond Fund 2,712.13

6,818.85 Dutton Fund 6,666.15

2,917.94 Prunty Fund 2,908.00

Amounts carried forward |12,286.28— | 883,473.05

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Amounts brought f orward . . . . | 12,286.28—1 883.473.05

254.49 Finney Fund 248.71

7.586.70 Dascomb Fund 7,420.86

424.16 Warner Fund 414.52

57,619.26 C. V. Spear Fund 56,684.98

900.72 Qlllett Fund 838.95

6,321.03 Roes Fund 6,299.44

4,371.37 Gilchrist Fund 4,331.19

20,392.99 Marx Straus Fund 18,871.85

5.182.09 Mary A. Springer Fund 5,135.91

4,959.23 Collins Fund 4,947.27

6,469.86 Cooper Fund 7,405.41

2,020.19 Williams Fund 2,017.16

994.18 Hotchkiss Fund 981.90

9,839.98 Firestone Fund 9.812.30

977.72 Edward West Fund 984.65

807.55 McClelland Fund 801.31

988.00 Parker Fund 975.42

2,000.00 Johnson Fund 1,979.33— 142,437.44

1,000.00 Cowles Memorial Si^holar&hlp. . 1,000.00

1,100.00 Dr. A. D. Lord Scholarship . . . 1,100.00

1,000.00 Mrs. Elizabeth W. R. Lord

Scholarship 1,000.00

1,045.00 HInchman Fund 1,045.00— 4.145.00

6,000.00 Lydia Ann Warner Scholar-
ship 5.000.00

1,000.00 F. V. Hayden Scholarship 1,000.00

6,000.00 Avery Fund 6,000.00

1,250.00 Finney Scholarship 1,250.00

1,000.00 Howard Valentine Scholarship 1,000.00

1.000.00 Caroline Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Talcott Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Metcalf Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Dodge Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Dascomb Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Blerce Scholarship 1,000.00

Amounts carried forward |20,250.00 — 11,030,055.49

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Amounts brought forward $20,250.00— $1,030,065.49

1,000.00 Qravet Scholarship 1,000.00

750.00 Lewis Nelson Churchill Scholar-
ship 750.00

200.00 Ann Lincoln Fund 200.00

811.28 Jones Loan Fund 558.98

1,250.00 Mary E. Wardle Scholarship . . 1,250.00

6,500.00 Dr. Dudley Allen Fund 6,500.00

1,000.00 Henry N. Castle Scholarship . . 1,000.00

1,025.00 Class of '58 Scholarship 1,025.00

815.50 Class of '69 Scholarship 815.50

1,000.00 Class of '98 Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Jean Woodward Irwin Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Howard Gardner Nichols Schol-
arship 1,000.00

1,000.00 May Moulton Memorial Fund.. 1,000.00
1,000.00 John Manning Barrows Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Julia Clark Davis Scholarship.. 1,000.00
2,000.00 Lucy M. Thompson Scholar-
ship 2,000.00

Qoodnow Scholarships 5,000.00

302.33 May Moulton Loan Fund 56.33

Qilchrlst Banking Fund 9,500.00

130.00 Trustee Scholarship Fund

(part) 130.00

80.00 Scholarship Loan Fund (part) 395.49 — 56,431.30
399.64 Unused income above scholar-
ships 292.66

83,793.49 C. Q. Finney Memorial Fund.. 86,047.60

2,964.37 Jennie Allen Nurse Fund 3,060.37

509.60 Hannah Snow Lewis Fund .. 509.10— 89,617.07

39,114.43 Balance credits, sundry

accounts 60,782.33

AmouiQt carried forward $1,237,178.85

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Amount brought forward $1,237,178.85

COLLEGE

67,959.59 Endowment 67,959.59

19,634.41 Dascomb Professorship 19,634.41

50,000.00 atone Professorship 50,000.00

55,881.37 Fredrlka B. Hull Professor-
ship 55,881.37

30,000.00 Qravet Professorship 30,000.00

30,000.00 Brooka Professorship 30,000.00

23,748.52 Monroe Professorship 23,748.25

25,000.00 Jamea F. Ciark Professor-
ship 25,000.00

20,000.00 Perkina Fund 20,000.00

25,000.00 Avery Professorship 25,000.00

40,000.00 L. H. Severance Professor-
ship 40,000.00

12,039.23 Adella A. Field Johnaton Pro-
fessorship 12.039.23

6,196.00 Severance Laboratory Fund.. 10,000.00

100.00 Henry Wlllard Fund 100.00— 409,362.85

1.14 Q. F. Wright Research Fund.. 1.14

1,000.00 Jennie Williams Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

6,000.00 Ellen M. Whitcomlb Scholar-
ship 6,000.00

1,000.00 Flora L. Blackatone Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

500.00 Tracy-Sturgea Scholarship ... 500.00

1,500.00 E. A. Weat Fund 1,500.00

1,000.00 Harvey H. Speiman Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Lucy B. Speiman Scholarship. 1,000.00

1,000.00 Janet Whitcomb Scholarship. 1,000.00

Amounts carried forward $13,000.00 — $1,646,542.84

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Amounts brought forward 1^13,000.00— $1,646,542.84

1,000.00 Mr«. F. E. Tracy Scholarship. 1,000.00

5,000.00 Frank Dickinson Bartlett

Scholarship 5,000.00

2,000.00 Andover Scholarships 2,000.00

1,000.00 J. C. Wilder Scholarship 1,000.00

2,500.00 The Conrifort Starr Scholarship

Fund 2,500.00

500.00 Sarah M. Hall Scholarships... 500.00
Qilchrist-Potter Scholarship

Fund 4,750.00— 29,750.00

391.10 Unused income above scholar-
ships 573.10

748.38 Balance credits, sundry

accounts 1,368.52

ACADEMY

38.77 Balance credits, sundry

accounts 124.38

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

34.031.88 Endowment 34.351.88

21,371.10 Finney Professorship 21,371.10

8,935.84 Morgan Professorship 8,935.84

25,000.00 Holbrook Professorship 25,000.00

21,707.00 Michigan Professorship 25,158.68

4,750.00 Place Fund 4,750.00

3,495.55 Burrell Fund 3,495.55

133.39 Hudson Fund 133.39

1,000.00 Joshua W. Weston Fund 1.000.00

7.150.00 Wm. C. Chapin Fund 7,150.00

100.00 Henry Wlllard Fund 100.00

Haakell Lectureship 20,000.00— 151.446.44

Glllett Fund 4,916.66

5,000.00 Lemuel Brooks Scholarship .. 5,000.00
1,500.00 Jennie M. Rosseter Scholar-
ship 1,500.00

Amounts carried forward $ 6,500.00 — $1,834,721.94

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Amounts brought forward $ 6,500.00— $1,834,721.94

1,000.00 McCord-Glbson Scholarship... 1,000.00

1,000.00 John Morgan Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Painetvllle Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Oberlin First Congregational

Cliurch Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Oberlin Second Congregational

Church Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Anaon Q. Phelps Scholarship.. 1,000.00

1,000.00 Butler Scholarship 1,000.00

1,000.00 Miami Conference Scholarship. 1,000.00

1,250.00 Tracy Scholarship 1,250.00

1,000.00 Sandusky Scholarship 1,000.00

1,250.00 Leroy H. Cowles Scholarship. . 1,250.00
1,000.00 Charles E. Fowler Scholar-
ship 1,000.00

1,250.00 Emerson Scholarship 1,250.00

291.95 Susan S. Button 'Fund 291.95— 20,541.96

1,095.99 Unused Income, above scholar-
ships 1,124.05

599.45 Balance credits, sundry ac-
counts 24.93

CONSERVATORY

30,419.50 Fenelon B. Rice Professor-
ship 30,419.50

21,532.69 Reserve Fund 24,291.74

133.69 Loan Fund 316.39— 55,027.63

UBRARY

271.00 Library Fund $14,017.00

827.00 Class of '85 Fund 887.00

500.00 Cochran Fund 500.00

500.00 Grant Fund 500.00

500.00 Hail Fund 500.00

100.00 Henderson Fund 100.00

11,176.63 Holbrook Fund 11,176.63

Amounts carried forward $ 27,680.63 — $1,911,440.50

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Amounts brought forward
500.00 Keep-Ciark Fund

1,000.00 Plumb Fund

5,724.13 E. K. Alden Fund
100.00 Andrews Fund . .
2,152.50 Faculty Fund ...
1,000.00 E. A. Wcat Fund

Helen G. Coburn Fund
Charles M. Hall Fund
D. Willis James Fund .
L. H. Severance Fund
Abbie R. Kendall Fund
1,041.63 Balance credits, sundry ac-
cx>unt8

$27,680.63— $1,911,440.50

500.00
1,000.00
5,724.13

100.00
2,152.50
2,000.00
9,963.20
5,000.00
10,000.00
5.000.00

475.00— 69,595.46

2.827^

SPECIAL

524.00 Foltz Tract Fund \ . .

548.00

$1,648,765.27 ToUl funds and balances $1,984,411.85

Total increase of funds and
balances $335,646.58

Liabilities
21,945.06 Deposits and personal accounts... 23,556.05

$1,670,710.33

$2,007,967.90

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The foregoing Funds and Balances are invested in the following
properties:

NOTES AND MORTGAGES distributed as follows:

Cleveland $55,071.24

Akron 68,600.00

Oberlin 44,779.87

Columbus 6,450.00

Lorain 82,855.00

Tallmadge 1,000.00

Wellington 200.00

Elyrla 6,750.00

Collinwood 5.000.00

Farm lands In Ohio 45,000.00

Total in Ohio $315,70ail

Eureka 500.00

Hutchinson 5,100.00

Wabaunsee 350.00

Farm lands in Kansas 19,883.00

Total In Kansas ; 25,833.00

Matthews 6,715.00

Farm lands in Indiana 3,350.00

Total in Indiana 10,065.00

Grand Rapids ' 12,900.00

Farm lands in Michigan 26,255.00

Total in Michigan 39,155.00

Chicago 117,000.00

Duluth 17,500.00

Des Moines 940.00

Davenport 20,000.00

Total in Iowa 20,940.00

Farm lands in Nebraska 200.00

Total notes and mortgages $546,399.11

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Amount brought forward $546,399.11

STOCKS AND BONDS—

$100j000.00 American Telephone & Telegraph

Co., 5% Gold Notes $100,000.00

10,000.00 Aurora. Elgin & Chicago Ry. Co.,

1 St 5*8 9,556.25

25,000.00 The Bedford Quarries Co., Ist 6's. 25,000.00
20,000.00 Cleveland & Eastern Ry. Co., 1st 5's 18,000.00
25,000.00 Cleveland & South-Western Trac-
tion Co., Ist Con. 5's 23,750.00

15,000.00 Cuyahoga Telephone Co., 1st 5*s... 12,26a75
1,000.00 Euclid Heights Realty Co., 1st 6*8 1,000.00
25,000.00 Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Trans-
portation Co., 1st 5*s 23,181.50

25,000.00 Gilchrist Transportation Co., 1st 5*8 23,041.00
30,000.00 Home Riverside Coal Co., Ist 5*s.. 25,000.00
3,500.00 Hudson & Manhattan Ry. Co. Syn-
dicate 3,500.00

30,000.00 Lake Shore Electric Ry. Co., Gen.

5's 25,500.00

15,000.00 Lorain Street Ry. Co., Con. 5's 13,875.00

4,500.00 Maple Leaf Land Co., 1st 6's 4,000.00

6,000.00 New Orleans & Great Northern Ry.

Co. Syndicate 6,000.00

30,000.00 Northampton Portland Cement Co.

1st 6's 30,000.00

10,000.00 Northern Ohio Traction Co., Ist

Con. 5's 10,000.00

5,000.00 Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co.

Ist Con. 4's 3,650.00

25,000.00 Ontario Power Co.,lst 5's 23.875.00

50,000.00 Roby Coal Co., 1st Con. O's 50,000.00

25,000.00 Steel Steamship Co., 1st 5's 24,750.00

30,000.00 Syracuse Rapid Transit Co., 2d 5's 27,000.00

5,500.00 Tuscarawas Ry. Co., 1st O's 5,500.00

20,000.00 United States Coal Co., 1st 5's. . . . 19,200.00
26,000.00 United States Telephone Co., 1st

5'8 21,400.00

Amounts carried forward $529,047.50$546,399.11

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267

Amounts brought forward $529,047.50f546,399.11

20,000.00 Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineer-
ing Co., let 5%*8 19,700.00

20,000.00 Western Ohio Ry. Co., 1st 5*s.... 15,825.00
30,000.00 Wheeling Traction Co., 1st 5*8.... 30,000.00
25,000.00 Youngstown Iron, Sheet & Tube

Co., 1st 6*8 25,000.00

Total stocks and bonds $619,572.50

COLLATERAL LOANS

$187,992.59

REAL ESTATE—

Ashtabula (city property).. $ 1,142.00

Oberlin (city property) 129,615.11

Cleveland (city property) . . . 82,600.00

Akron (city property) 12,000.00

Toledo (city property) 650.00

Ely r la (city property) 136.()0

Farm lands in Ohio 13,500.00

Total in Ohio

Grand Rapids (city property) 10,449.00
Farm lands in Michigan 5,180.00

Total in Michigan

Topeka (city property) 10,500.00

Farm lands in Kansas 18,228.70

Total In Kansas

Chicago (city property )

St Paul (city property)

Matthews (city property)

Farm lands In Florida

Farm lands In Washington

Total real estate

$239,643.11

15,629.00

28,728.70

135,000.00

1,319.10

1,610.38

200.00

475.00

SUNDRIES—

Construction acct. Baldwin Cottage (loan) $11,965.41

Construction acct Talcott Hall (loan) 13,075.46

Advances to Lord Cottage 1,502.12

Advances to Stewart Hall 1,393.16

422,605.29

Amounts carried forward $27,936. 15$1 ,776,569.49

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Amounts brought forward $27.936.15 $1,776,569.49

Advances to Keep Home 1,702.21

Furnishings Park Hotel 3,823.41

Unexpired Insurance 2,363.99

E. B. Fairfield property, Chicago 18,914.03

Improvements to Haskell property, Chicago 9,312.72

Improvements to Women's Gymnasium 2,700.00

New Library construction account 1,190.00

Shedd Fund loans 1,933.50

Scholarships overdrawn 301.90

Student Employment Fund overdrawn 732.60

Time deposits (Savings & Trust Co.*s) . . 10,500.00

Bills receivable 21,428.50

Sundry accounts 34,260.68

Loan to General Fund 5,162.03

142,261.72

Deposits subject to check and cash 89,13&69

$2,007,967.90

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SUMMARY OF ASSETS

Notes and Mortgages $ 546.3d9.ll

Stocks and Bonds 619,572.50

Collateral Loans 187.902.59

Real Estate 422,605.29

Sundries 142,261.72

Cash 89,136.69

$2,007,967.90

Buildings and Equipment (see page 270) 751,950.00

$2,759,917.90

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270 REPORT OF THE TREASURER

The following properties in use for College purposes are not en-
tered in the foregoing list of assets, and are not valued on the Treas-
urer's Books, The values given are reasonable estimates hased on
their cost and present condition:

Spear Library $ 30,000.00

French and Society Halls 14,000.00

Peters Hall 75,000.00

Warner Hall 130,000.00

Council Hall 75,000.00

Sturges Hall 10,000.00

Talcott Hall and furniture 65,000.00

Baldwin Cottage and furniture 40,000.00

Lord Cottage and furniture 24,000.00

Stewart Hall \ 4,000.00

Keep Home , 3,000.00

Other houses and College grounds 8,000.00

Library 50,000.00

Women's Gymnasium 8,000.00

Physical and Chemical Apparatus 15,000.00

Museum 25,000.00

Botanical Collection 7,500.00

Musical Library 3,000.00

Musical Instruments and Apparatus 46,000.00

Arboretum 2,000.00

Athletic Grounds 2,950.00

Severance Chemical Laboratory 69,500.00

Warner Gymnasium 45,000.00

$751,950.00

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REPORT OF A VDITING COMMITTEE 271

REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE FOR THE
YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31. 1906

To the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College:

Your Committee have personally examined all bonds,
notes, mortgages, certificates of stock, deeds, and other
evidences of property which were on hand at the beginning of
the present year, or were received during the year, and also all
securities held as collateral for loans.

We find that all are now in the hands of the Treasurer or
are fully accounted for, and that all payments of principal
endorsed on any of the securities, and all payments for real
estate sold, have been properly credited on the books of the
College.

Your Committee also employed the services of Mr. A. J.
Horn, of Cleveland, an expert public accountant and auditor,
who submitted to us the following report :

"All disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash Books were
checked with vouchers and other voucher evidence.

"All receipts and disbursements appearing on Treasurer's Cash
Books were carefully re footed and extensions examined.

**The Cash Balance as shown on Treasurer's Cash Book before
the commencement of business, Sept. 1, 1006, was verified, (a) By
actual count of money in safe ; (b) By reconciliation of bank balances.

"All entries appearing in said Cash Books were found correctly
posted, as verified by the casting of balances in the Trial Balance
which was carefully rechecked with Ledgers.

"All detailed sheets of Investments and real estate were com-
pared with resi)ective controlling accounts on Ledger.

"The books and archives of the Treasurer are kept in a most
creditable and business-like manner."

Your Committee heartily approve the methods and work

of the Treasurer's Office.

(Signed)

HENRY M. TENNEY,

E. J. GOODRICH,

Auditing Committee.

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272 ACTIONS OF THE TRUSTEES

ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE MEETING OF THE
TRUSTEES. DECEMBER 5, 1906

There were present: President King, Messrs. W. C.
Cochran, J. G. W. Cowles, H. Clark Ford, W. N. Gates, E. J.
Goodrich, C. M. Hall, L. H. Severance, H. M. Tenney.

The report of the ballot for alumni trustee showed the
re-election of Dr. Lucien C. Warner of New York for the full
term of six years and of Dr. Dan F. Bradley of Cleveland for
the unexpired term ending January 1, 1909, to succeed the late
Dr. Judson Smith.

Mr. F. N. Finney, Mr. L. H. Severance, and Mr. E. J.
Goodrich were re-elected to membership on the Board for the
full term of six years.

The Board of Trustees gratefully acknowledged the re-
ceipt during the year of the many gifts for the completion of
the Half Million Fund.

The office of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
was created and Professor Charles E. St. John was appointed
to the new office with a salary corresponding to that of the
Dean of the Theological Seminary and the Director of the
Conservatory of Music.

The following vote was passed with reference to the age
limit for the retirement of teachers :

That, for teachers eligible for the retiring allowances of the Car-
negie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, retirement at
sixty-five may be asked for by either the teacher or the CJollege ; and
retirement at sixty-eight shall take place as a matter of course with-
out further action by the trustees.

Authority was given to the Council and the Prudential
Committee to increase the teaching force in the department of
English and in the department of Political Science and
Economics, by the appointment of a new Instructor or Asso-
ciate Professor in each department.

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Charter and By-Laws

Oberlin College

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CHARTER OF OBERLIN COLLEGE

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio, That Henry Brown, John Keys, Eliphalet Red-
ington, Joel Talcott, Addison Tracy, Jabez L. Burrell, Philo
P. Stewart, Peter P. Pease, and John J. Shipherd, of the
county of Lorain, and their associates and successors, be, and
they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be
styled the Board of Trustees of the Oberlin Collegiate Insti-
tute, and, by that name, to remain in perpetual succession, with
full power to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to
acquire, hold, and convey property, real and personal, to have
and use a common seal, to alter and renew the same at
pleasure ; to make and alter, from time to time, such by-laws
as they may deem necessary for the government of said insti-
tution, its officers, students, and servants: Provided, such by-
laws shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of
the United States and of this State; also, to have power to
confer on those whom they may deem worthy, such honors
and degrees as are usually conferred in similar institutions.

Sec. 2. That the said institution shall remain where it
is now located, in Russia, Lorain County, and shall afford
instruction in the liberal arts and sciences; and the Trustees
may, as they shall find themselves able, and the public good
shall require, erect additional departments for such other
branches of education as they may think necessary or useful.

Sec 3. That the Board of Trustees shall, from time to
time, appoint a President and other officers and instructors,
and also agents of the institution as may be necessary; and
shall have power to displace and remove any or either of them
for good and sufficient reasons ; and also to increase the num-

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276 CHARTER AND BY-LAWS

ber of their Board to twelve, exclusive of the President, fill
vacancies which may occur by resignation, death, or otherwise
in said Board or among said officers or agents, and prescribe
and direct the course of study to be pursued in said Institute
and its departments.

Sec. 4. The President of the institution shall be ex-ofUcio
a member of the Board of Trustees, and President of the
same, and in his absence the Board shall elect one of its
members to preside for the time being, and if any of said
Trustees shall be permanently appointed President of said
institution his office as Trustee shall be deemed vacant, and the
Board of Trustees shall fill the same.

Sec. 5. Any seven of the twelve members of the Board of
Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business; and the
Board shall hold their first annual meeting on the second Mon-
day of March, 1834, at Oberlin, in the Township of Russia, in
Lorain County, and afterwards they shall meet on their own
appointment ; but, in case of necessity, the President, with the
advice of two Trustees, may call a special meeting of the Board,
or any five members of the Board may call such meeting by
giving notice to each member at least seven days before the
time of said meeting.

Sec. 6. The Board of Trustees shall faithfully apply all
funds by them collected and received, according to their best
judgment, in erecting suitable buildings, supporting the nec-
essary officers, instructors, and agents, and in procuring books,
maps, charts, and other apparatus necessary to the well-being
and success of the institution : Provided, nevertheless, that in
case any donations or bequests shall be made for particular
purposes not inconsistent with the designs of this institution,
and the Trustees shall accept and receive the same, ever^ such
donation or bequest shall be applied in conformity to the
conditions or designs of the donor.

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Sec. 7. The Treasurer of the institution shall always, and
all other agents when required, before entering on the duties of
their appointments, give bonds for the security of the corpora-
tion and the public in such penal sums, and with such securities
as the Board of Trustees shall approve ; and all process against
the corporation shall be by summons, and the service of the
same shall be by leaving an attested copy thereof with the
Treasurer of the institution, at least ten days before the return
thereof.

Sec. 8. The Legislature shall have a right to amend, or
repeal, this act when they deem it necessary : Provided, that no
fund or property belonging to the said institution shall ever be
by law appropriated to any other purpose than those named in
this Charter.

John H. Keith,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
David T. Disney,
February 2, 1834. Speaker of the Senate,

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "aN ACT TO INCORPORATE
THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE^

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio, That from and after the passage of this act,
the name and title of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute, at
Oberlin, Lorain County, be changed to the name of Oberlin
College ; subject to all the provisions and enactments of an act
to incorporate the "Oberlin Collegiate Institute," passed Feb-
ruary 2, 1834, and the acts, amendatory thereto.

Benjamin F. Leiter,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Charles C. Converse,

Secretary of the Senate,
March 21, 1850.

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AN ACT TO AMEND SUPPLEMENTARY SECTION 3771 a

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Ohio, That supplementary Section 3771 a of the
Revised Statutes of Ohio, passed April 15, 1889, be so amended
as to read as follows :

Section 3771 a. The Board of Trustees of any universi-
ty or college heretofore incorporated, but not under the patron-
age of conferences or other ecclesiastical bodies of any relig-
ious denomination, as described in Section 3736, may increase
the number of such Trustees to twenty-four, exclusive of the
president, or a less number, and may divide said Trustees into
six ^ classes, each class to serve six years, and one class to be
chosen eiach year, for said term; but one trustee of each class
may be chosen by the votes of the alumni of such university or
college, if the Board of Trustees shall so provide by by-law, in
which case it shall also be the duty of the Board of Trustees
to provide, by such by-laws, a method of nominating and elect-

»The Act of April 15, 1880 (86 Ohio Laws, 341), corresponded
with this, except that by clerical error it used the word "four" at
this point.

Trustees J. D. Cox, J. E. Ingersoll, and E. W. Metcalf, committee,
In their report, January 27, 1892, speak of this legislation thus:

"Your committee on a former reference of the matter to them
found that there was then no legislation authorizing the election of
Alumni Trustees in colleges not under the patronage of ecclesiastical
organizations. They drafted an amendatory section of the general
corporation laws of the state, and by the efficient aid of the members
of the General Assembly from Lorain County, procured its enact-
ment. It now stands as Section 3771 a of the Revised Statutes.

A clerical error crept Into the printed copy of the bill, for this
purpose, and passed Into the enacted law. To modify this, your com-
mittee proposed a further amendment and with the same aid as before
secured Its enactment. It corrects Section 3771 a of the Revised
Statutes, and Is found in the Laws of Ohio, annual. Volume 87 (for
1890), page 188.

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ing such appointee of the alumni. The President of such uni-
versity or college shall, ex-officio, be a Trustee perpetually, and
shall not be included in the classes going out in rotation. If
it shall be necessary, in the first enlargement of the Board of
Trustees, under this section, to distribute new members to the
several classes, whose terms shall expire by rotation, the dis-
tribution may be made in such manner as the Board may direct,
so that no Trustee shall be elected for a longer term than six
years.

Section 2. That said original supplementary Section
3771 a, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall
take effect on its passage.

NiAL R. Hysell,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Perry M. Adams,

President pro tern, of the Senate,
Passed, April 11, 1890.

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CONTENTS OF BY-LAWS

Article

II.

Article

III.

Article

IV.

Article

ArUcle

VI.

Article

VII.

Article VIII.

Article

IX.

Article

XIL

Article XIII.

Article XIV.

Article

XV.

Article

XVL

PAGE

Of the Trustees, their Number, Manner of Selec-
tion and Terms of Office; Alumni Trustees. . 281
Of the Officers of the Board; Terms of Office;

Salaries 285

Of the President's Office; the President; the

Assistant to the President 285

Of the Treasurer 287

Of the Records of the Corporation ; the Secretary 290
Of Finance; the Investment Committee; the

Auditing Committee 292

Of the Committee on Appointments 294

Of the Prudential Committee 295

Of the Faculties 297

Of the General Council 300

Of the Heads of Departments; of Departmental

Councils 301

Of Discipline 301

Of Degrees; of the Committee on Honorary De-
grees 303

Of the Meetings of the Board of Trustees ; Order

of Business 305

Of the Advisory Committees 307

Of Amendments 309

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BY-LAWS OF OBERUN COLLEGE

[Adopted by the Board of Trustees, November 18, 1905, and by
authorization of the Board corrected to date of issue, December 15,
1906.]

ARTICLE I

Of the Trustees: Their Number, Manner of Selection
AND Terms of Office; Alumni Trustees

Section 1. Pursuant to the Act of the General Assembly
of Ohio passed April 11, 1890, this Board now consists of 24
Trustees, divided into six classes, providing for 4 Trustees in
each class, who hold office for terms of six years each.

The membership of the Board at the time of the adoption
of the By-laws was as follows :

Term expires January 1, 1906:

H. Clark Ford,

Homer H. Johnson,

Sydney D. Strong,

James O. Troup.
Term expires January 1, 1907:

Frederick N. Finney,

Edward J. Goodrich,

Louis H. Severance,

Lucien C. Warner.
Term expires January 1, 1908 :

William C. Cochran,

Franklin S. Fitch,

Irving W.Metcalf,

Merritt Starr.

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Term expires January 1, 1909 :
Amzi L. Barber,
Charles Finney Cox,
William N. Gates,
Judson Smith.
Term expires January 1, 1910 :
Dudley P. Allen,
John G. W. Cowles,
Charles S. Mills,
Henry M. Tenney.
Term expires January 1, 1911 :
Theodore E. Burton,
Paul D. Cravath,
Charles J. Ryder,
Charles B. Shedd.
Section 2. At the annual meeting preceding the expira-
tion of the terms of any class of the Trustees as aforesaid,
three Trustees shall be elected by the Board for a term of six
years to fill three places in said class ; the fourth shall be elected
by the Alumni as hereinafter provided.

The term of office of each Trustee shall begin at 12 o'clock
M. on January the first next following his election and expires
six years thereafter.

Section 3. Nine Trustees shall constitute a quorum of
the Board.

Section 4* A standing committee of three members of the

Board, on nominations to fill vacancies in the Board of

Trustees, shall be chosen at each annual meeting of the Board.

The Secretary shall notify said committee of any vacancy

which may occur in the Board.

Said committee shall thereupon (except in the case of Presi-
dent or among the Alumni Trustees) invite nominations to fill
such vacancy from all members of the Board ; and at the next

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meeting of the Board report, nominating at least two persons
for each such vacancy.

At any election to fill such vacancy the Board may choose
from the persons so nominated or otherwise.

Section 5. — Clause 1. One Trustee of the College, who
shall be an alumnus of Oberlin College, shall be elected
each year by the Alumni and shall hold his office for six years,
being one of the class of four in the Board of Trustees annually
elected.

Section 5. Clause 2. The Alumni for the purpose of
such election shall be held to comprise regular graduates of the
College, from any course of study in the Theological Sem-
inary, from the College of Arts and Sciences, and former
courses whose work is comprised therein, and from the Con-
servatory of Music, and also any person upon whom the Col-
lege has conferred an honorary degree.

Section 5. Clause 3. The election shall be conducted by
the Secretary of the College as follows : On or about the first
of May in each year a printed blank or slip shall be sent to
each of the Alumni whose residence is known, on which slip the
name of the outgoing Alumni Trustee shall be given and a
nomination requested for the ensuing term as his successor, and
said slip shall also show the names and residences of all the
members of the Board of Trustees, with designation of those
who are Alumni Trustees.

Upon the first of August such nomination shall be canvassed
by the Secretary and Librarian of the College and the result
tabulated and entered upon the College records. On or before
the first of September the Secretary shall send out, as before,
printed tickets containing the five namies of the nominees
having the highest number of nominating votes on which shall
be stated the date of graduation, the residence and occupation
of each of such nominees, and each of the Alumni may mark

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his choice of one of said five and return his ballot to said Secre-
tary. On the first of November the Secretary and Librarian
shall canvass the ballots cast, and the person who shall have the
highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The result
shall be tabulated and recorded as before, and the canvassing
officers shall notify the Board of Trustees and the Trustee-elect
of the election.

Section 5. Clause 4. In case of the sickness, absence,
or other disability of the Secretary or Librarian, or both, his or
their duties in the matter of such election shall be performed
by such substitutes as the President of the College may appoint.

Section 5. Clause 5. Elections to fill unexpired parts of
terms of any Alumni Trustee who may die or resign, shall
follow as near as may be the method hereinbefore provided.

In case any such vacancy occur on or before August fifteenth
of any year, the election for all vacancies shall be made at the
same time, and upon the same ballots, and the person receiving
the largest number of votes shall be elected for the regular
term, he having the next highest number for the longest unex-
pired term and so on. And in such case, the ballot tickets to be
sent out by the Secretary shall contain six names and the
alumni shall be asked to vote for two candidates when two
Alumni Trustees are to be elected, and so on.

Section 5. Clause 6. In case of a tie vote, the canvassers
shall report the fact to the President, and the President shall
by lot determine between the candidates.

Section 5. Clause 7. The term of each Alumni Trustee
shall be coincident with that of the class of Trustees to which
he is elected.

Section G. No person while a teacher in the institution
shall be eligible to election as a Trustee except by election as
President and cx-oUicio Trustee.

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Section 7. No denominational test is imposed in the choice
of trustees, officers, or teachers, or in the admission of
students, nor are distinctly denominational tenets or doctrines
taught to the students.

ARTICLE II
Of the Officers of the Board; Terms of Office; Salaries

Section 1. The officers of the Board (other than the
President provided for by the Charter) shall be a Treasurer,
and a Secretary.

Section 2. The President, Treasurer, and Secretary shall
respectively be chosen by ballot and shall hold office during the
pleasure of the Board.

Section 3. The salaries of the President, Treasurer, and
Secretary shall be fixed for each fiscal year of the College at
least three months prior to the beginning of said year and not
be changed during the year. If not otherwise fixed the salary
of any year shall be the same as that for the preceding year.

ARTICLE III

Of the President's Office: the President; the Assist-
ant TO THE President

Section 1. The President shall be chosen by ballot and
when chosen shall serve during the pleasure of the Board.

Section 2. He shall be ex-oMcio a member of the Board,
and shall preside at all its meetings.

Section 3. He shall have power to call si>ecial meetings
of the Board at any time on seven days' written notice mailed
to the Trustees at their last known addresses respectively

Section 4. He shall supervise the work of all departments
and officers, agents, teachers and employes of the College.

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Section 5. He shall be ex-oMcio a member of the Pru-
dential Committee and of the Investment Committee.

Section 6. He shall be Chairman of the General* Council
and of the General Faculty, and of all subordinate councils
and faculties.

Section 7. He may attend any meeting of any committee
or body subordinate to the Board or to any of the
faculties, and share in the deliberations thereof, but without
vote unless made a member of such subordinate body or com-
mittee, and he is ex-oMcio Chairman of the Committee on
Appointments of the General Council, and of the Committee
on Nominations of the General Faculty.

Section 8. He may grant temporary leave of absence to
any officer, agent, teacher, or employe.

Section 9. He may, with the approval of the General
Council and of the Prudential Committee, suspend any officer,
agent, teacher, or employe of the College, reporting his reasons
therefor in writing to the next meeting of the Board, and
which shall be subject to the approval of the Board.

Section 10. He shall perform all duties imposed by law
upon the executive head of the corporation.

Section 11. He shall prepare and distribute to the
Trustees as early as practicable prior to the time fixed by
by-law for the annual meeting a report in writing or print of
the affairs and condition of the College, the work of the pre-
vious year, and such recommendations and suggestions as he
may deem fit. Such report may include reports from the heads
of departments of administration, and from other officers at
the discretion of the President.

Section 12. The Assistant to the President, who shall not
be a member of the Board of Trustees, shall cooperate with the
President in strengthening and developing the College on
every side. He shall be especially charged, in consultation

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with the President, with the work of maintaining and enlarg-
ing the friendly and supporting constituency of the College,
and of increasing its material resources. He shall particularly
seek to make close and helpful the relation between the
College and its alumni and former students, and shall be re-
sponsible, unofficially, for the progress of the Living Endow-
ment Fund.

Section 13. He shall be ex-oMcio a member of the Pru-
dential Committee, a member of the General Faculty with
the rank of Prof-essor, and a member of the Faculty Committee
on Supervision of Appeals to Alumni.

Section 14. He shall each year, or oftener if desired, give
to the Trustees a full report of his activities.

ARTICLE IV
Of the Treasurer

Section 1. The Treasurer, who shall not be a member of
the Board of Trustees, shall have charge of matters of Finance
and Accounts. He shall have the custody of all the funds,
securities, investments, muniments of title, indicia of owner-
ship, assets, properties, choses in action, accounts and items
of credit and things receivable by or belonging to the College.
He shall be ex-ofUcio a member of the Investment Committee
and Secretary thereof. He shall also be ex-oMcio a member of
the Prudential Committee.

Section 2. He shall annually give bond for the faithful
performance of the duties of his office in the sum of $50,000,
with a surety company as surety, to be approved by the Board,
the expense of which shall be borne by the corporation. The
Board may, from time to time, require additional bonds from
the Treasurer. •

Section 3. He shall keep in just and accurate books of

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account, records of all the assets, liabilities, resources and obli-
gations, receipts and expenditures and financial and property
transactions of the corporation. Said books shall include sep-
arate and distinct accounts of all the trust funds held by the
College, with record of the manner and form in which the
same are invested, and the receipts and disbursements thereof.
An annual balancing and rest shall be written upon said books
of account, and an annual balance sheet and report shall be pre-
pared and furnished by the Treasurer to the Trustees at least
one month prior to the time fixed by by-laws for the annual
meeting.

Section 4. He shall furnish to the Prudential Committee,
and to the General Council at least one month prior to the time
fixed by by-law for the annual meeting of the Trustees a state-
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the past and current
year, and the probable receipts as estimated by himself for the
ensuing year, for use by these bodies and the Trustees in prepar-
ing budgets for the ensuing year ; and shall keep in well bound
and indexed books provided for that purpose copies of such
statements and budgets for each year.

Section 5. Each department, except the Conservatory as
hereinafter provided for, shall contribute for the share of that
department in the general (or university) expenses of the insti-
tution which are for the corporation as a whole and not
assignable to any one department, such sums as may be de-
termined by the Trustees from time to time.

Section 6. * In the case of the Conservatory any excess of

*Thl8 rule Is based upon the agreement between the Trustees and
Professor F. B. Rice, of the Conservatory, as recorded In the vote
of the Trustees, June 20. 1885, as follows: **That a definite salary
be paid to the Director and Teachers of the Conservatory for which
the Colleije shall he responsible as In the case of other teachers; It
helnp: understood that all the receipts of the Conservatory shall be de-
voted to Its uses and that the Conservatory shall be self-sustaining.

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receipts over expenses shall be used to form a surplus fund to
meet possible deficits in other years, or, upon vote of the
Trustees, to be used in the development of the department.
The Conservatory shall contribute toward the university ex-
penses such amount as shall be determined from time to time
by vote of the Trustees based upon what shall seem upon
careful investigation to be equity in the matter.

Section 7. To each department shall be credited all funds
given for the endowment of that department and the income
from such endowment shall be devoted to the support and
development of departmental work.

Section 8. All undesignated funds, all funds donated for
general endowment purposes and all funds designated for
specific purposes of general interest shall be classed as general
(or university) funds. From the income of these funds, with
the exception of funds designated for specific purposes, shall
be paid general (or university) expenses proi>er(i. e., expenses
for the benefit of the corporation as a whole and not assio^able
to any one department), and the deficits, if authorized by the
Board, of all departments except the Conservatory, and the
remainder of said income shall be devoted to the use cf the
department of Arts and Sciences; but all remaining subject
to the disposition of the Trustees.

Section 9. The financial year shall begin with September
1st of each year and close with August 31st next following.

Section 10. The Treasurer shall, from time to time, print
and distribute to the Trustees, for the information of Trustees,
copies of the college charter, of the statutes of Ohio especially
applicable to the college, of these by-laws, and of the several
special deeds, agreements and instruments cf trust prescribing
and defining the terms of the trusts upon which the property
of the corporation is held.

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ARTICLE V
Of the Records of the Corporation ; the Secretary

Section 1. The Secretary, who shall not be a member of
the Board of Trustees, shall have charge of the records and
correspondence of the corporation.

Section 2. He shall give bond for the faithful performance
of the duties of his office in the sunt of one thousand dollars,
with a surety company as surety, to be approved by the
Trustees, the expense of which shall be borne by the corpora-
tion.

Section 3. He shall be the Secretary of the Board of
Trustees, ex-oMcio a member of the Prudential Committee,
and Secretary thereof. He shall keep records of the member:*
present and of the proceedings of each of these bodies at all
meetings. At the opening of each meeting of these bodies
respectively the record of its proceedings shall be read by the
Secretary unless otherwise ordered.

Section 4. He shall preserve the records of such proceed-
ings in well-bound books, and the same shall be open to the
inspection of any member of the Board of Trustees or of the
General Council at all reasonable times.

Section 5. He shall conduct such correspondence as per-
tains to his office or as the President may require.

Section 6. He shall prepare and distribute to the Trustees
at least one week prior to the time fixed by by-law for the
annual meeting the proceedings during the previous year of the
several bodies for which he keeps the records. He shall make
a report in writing or print, showing the statistics of the offi-
cers of instruction and government, and of the students of the
College, the list of courses of studies taught and the number
of students therein, during the previous year, with such com-
parisons and tables as will exhibit to the Trustees the present

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work of the Colkge and the tendencies thereof. The Secretary
may at any time of his own motion, or as he may be directed
by the Trustees, make further reports of any matter pertaining
to his office or conduct.

Section 7. He shall mail a written notification to each
Trustee of all regular or special meetings of the Board. He
shall give ample notification of all special meetings of
faculties and committees of which he keeps the records, to the
members of such bodies respectively in accordance with the
by-laws or the directions of such bodies.

Section 8. He shall, under the direction of the President
and General Faculty, prepare and publish the annual cata-
logues of the College, containing lists of the officers, teachers,
employes, and students, and statements of courses of study;
he shall also prepare the quinquennial catalogue of officers,
teachers, and alumni, and such other catalogues, prospectuses,
announcements, bulletins, and documents as the President or
General Faculty may direct.

Section 9. He shall produce at each meeting of any of
the bodies whose records he keeps, the records for the current
year and for the preceding meeting. He shall also acquaint
the presiding officer in writing what business is by assignment
to come before the body, and what committees are outstanding,
and what committees have and have not reported, what reports
are received and awaiting action, and, so far as practicable,
what business remains unfinished from previous meetings.
For the meetings of the Board of Trustees, the Secretary, in
consultation with the President, and in accordance with the
order of business prescribed in Article XIV of the By-Laws,
shall prepare a detailed docket, to be sent to the Trustees one
week before each regular meeting.

Section 10. He shall be the custodian of the seal of the
corporation.

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The seal of the corporation, which was adopted on the 18th
day of February, 1852, and which has since then been in

use, IS hereby continued. Said

seal is circular in form with two
•enclosing circles displaying upon
the enclosed field a representa-
tion of a field of grain and a
college building, and in the mar-
gin below, the motto, Learning
and Labor; and in the margin
above, the name of the College,
all as here impressed or por-
trayed, viz. :

Section 11. All reports of committees involving the ex-
penditure of money shall be in writing, and, unless otherwise
ordered, preserved in files by the Secretary.

Section 12. The Secretary shall keep the records, reports,
and documents in his custody so classified, arranged, and in-
dexed as to be accessible to the Trustees at all times.

Section 13. All resignations of office by any officer or
member of the Board, or by any member of any of the
Faculties, shall be in writing, and kept on file with the Secre-
tary.

Section 14. He shall perform all duties imposed by law
on the Secretary, Clerk, or Recording officer of the corpora-
tion, unless the sarnie is otherwise lawfully provided for by
by-laws.

ARTICLE VI

Of Finance; the Investment Committee; the Auditing

Committee

Section 1. The Trustees shall at each semi-annual meet-
ing adopt a Budget to be known as the Annual Appropriation

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Budget, appropriating to special objects so far as they deem
wise the moneys to be expended during the next following
financial year. Other appropriations may be made at semi-
annual meetings or at called meetings ; but no money shall be
expended except by vote of the Trustees appropriating the
same, or by vote of the Prudential Committee as provided in
Article VIII, Section 3.

Section 2. No such annual appropriation budget shall be
adopted by the Board, and no other appropriation at any time
shall be made, appropriating in the aggregate more moneys to
be expended during any current financial year than the amount
of the estimated probable receipts shown by the Treasurer's
statement, unless at such meeting it shall be adopted by the bal-
lots in favor thereof of three-fourths of the members of the
Board of Trustees present.

Section 3. In making appropriations the Trustees may
designate what moneys are to be expended under the direction
of the different committees and subordinate faculties of the
different departments.

Section 4. An Investment Committee shall be appointed
annually by the Trustees, which shall superintend all invest-
ments of College funds. It shall consist of six members, viz. :
the President and Treasurer of the College and four members
of the Board.

The Investment Committee shall hold its meetings at such
times and places as the committee may select.

The Treasurer shall be Secretary of the Investment Com-
mittee and keep permanent records of its proceedings.

No investment shall be made in which any member of the
Committee has a pecuniary interest.

The Investment Committee shall at each annual meeting
submit to the Trustees a full and complete statement of the

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nature and condition of all investments, and a copy cf all the
proceedings for the preceding year.

Section 5. Each Departmental Council shall annually pre-
pare and send to the General Council a statement and proposal
for a Budget which shall show the receipts and expenditures of
that department for the past year and the probable receipts and
proposed expenditures for the ensuing year.

Section 6. In case of the proposed organization of a new
department the following principle shall govern : So long as
the Departmental and General Endowlments remain inadequate
to meet the demands upon the corporation as at present consti-
tuted, a new department shall be added only when a sum has
been acquired for that specific purpose, the income of which is
sufficient to meet the expenses of the proposed department,
together with its equitable share of the general (or university)
expenses, or when the tuitions of the proposed department are
so established that the income therefrom shall cover the above
named expenses.

Section 7. An Auditing Committee of two members shall
be chosen at each annual meeting of the Trustees, who shall
hold office for one year. Such committee shall examine and
audit the books and accounts of the Treasurer at least once in
the year and at such other times during the year as they see
fit. They may employ expert accountants to assist in such
work, and shall report the result of their examination in
writing to the Board. The reports of the Auditing Committee
shall be preserved in well-bound books kept for that purpose

ARTICLE VII

Of the Committee on Appointments

Section 1. A Committee on Appointments shall be selected
annually by the Trustees, which shall consist of four Trustees,

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to which shall stand referred all nominations from the General
Council or otherwise for the appointment of professors, in-
structors, or teachers, for their consideration and report.

Section 2. The Departmental Councils shall have the
right to make, through the General Council, nominations of
professors or instructors in their respective departments.
The right is reserved to the Trustees to make and consider
such nominations and appointments as they see fit.

Section 3. To this Committee shall be referred all im-
portant proposed changes in courses of study, and all nomina-
tions of professors and instructors coming from the General
Council ; and by this Committee these changes and nominations
shall be presented to the Board with its recommendations.

ARTICLE VIII
Of the Prudential Committee

Section 1. A Prudential Committee shall be chosen by the
Trustees at each annual meeting, consisting of the President,
the Assistant to the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary,
and seven others, to whom shall be entrusted the management
of the concerns of the Board of Trustees according to the
direction of the Board in the intervals when the Board is not
in session. Five members shall constitute a quorum.

Section 2. The Prudential Committee shall administer the
affairs of the College which are not especially intrusted to the
President, Treasurer, Secretary, Faculty, or other Committees
of the Trustees.

Section 3. Any expenditure not previously authorized
by the Trustees can be made only on the approval of the
Prudential Committee.

Section 4. In all affairs of minor importance the action
of the Prudential Committee, subject to the adoption of such

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action by the Trustees at their meetings, shall be final ; but on
any matters of importance which admit of delay, final action
shall be reserved and presented to the Trustees with their
recommendation.

Section 5. The General Council shall annually prepare
and submit to the Trustees a budget for all departments. Said
budget of the General Council shall be transmitted to the
Prudential Committee before it is transmitted to the Trustees,
and the Prudential Committee may indicate their approval of
the proposed budget, or may submit the same with amend-
ments, or may transmit with the same an independent budget.

Section 6. In case of peculiar exigencies, such as that of
a vacancy in the Faculty occurring in the intervals between
meetings of the Trustees, the Prudential Committee, on the
nomination of the Departmental Council through the General
Council, m.ay make a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy
for the remainder of the current school year.

Section 7. General supplies shall be purchased by the
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds or by the Treasurer ;
special supplies may be purchased by the head of the depart-
ment of administration cr instruction, in whose hands special
funds have been placed under the budget. Purchases shall be
made only as provided by the budget or by the vote of the
Prudential Committee. All bills shall be presented to the
Treasurer, shall be paid by him direct, and with the vouchers
shall be filed in the records of his office.

Section 8. Charges by the corporation for rooms, board,
and other commodities, if supplied by the corporation, shall be
determined by the Prudential Committee subject to the ap-
proval of the Trustees.

Section 9. The amount of the term bills and students'
fees shall be determined by the Board of Trustees in annual
meeting, and in the absence of action thereon at any annual

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meeting shall be the same as for the preceding year, but sub-
ject to change at the beginning of any year.

Section 10. The Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
shall be chosen by the Trustees and shall have imme-
diate supervision of the buildings and grounds of the corpora-
tion, under the direction of the Prudential Committee, and
shall make annual reports in writing thereon.

ARTICLE IX
Of the Faculties

Section 1. The General Faculty are intrusted with the
management of the internal affairs of the College, but must ob-
tain the concurrence of the Trustees in order to introduce any
important change affecting the established methods or prin-
ciples of administration.

Section 2. The instruction given by the College is dis-
tributed among the following departments, viz. :

(1) The College of Arts and Sciences, which may for
convenience be called "the College," and shall have charge of all
instruction given by the corporation not specifically conferred
on other departments.

(2) The Theological Seminary, which shall have special
charge of instruction in theology. (The work of the Slavic
Department is also committee to the Theological Seminary.)

(3) The Academy, which shall have special charge of
the instruction in secondary studies.

(4) The Conservatory of Music, which shall have
special charge of instruction in music.

Section 3. The General Faculty shall consist of the
President, the Assistant to the President, the Deans, the
Director of the Conservatory of Music, the Principal of the
Academy, the Secretary, the Librarian, the Registrar, all the

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Professors, all Acting, Associate, and Assistant Professors in
all departments, and all Instructors in the College, Seminary,
and Academy.

Section 4. A permanent professor in any department shall
be one who has received an appointment during the pleasure
of the Board of Trustees.

Section 5. The Professors, Acting, Associate, and Assist-
ant Professors, Deans, and Instructors in each department
shall constitute the Departmental Faculty; except that the
Academy and G>ns€rvatory Faculties shall include all teachers
of these departments. '

Section 6. Each Departmental Faculty shall, subject to
the approval of the General Faculty, prescribe regulations and
scholarly requirements for admission to the Department, the
studies and courses of study therein, time of residence and
attendance, conditions for examination, theses and terms of
graduation, and the conditions for any degree other than hon-
orary degrees, and may make recommendations thereon.

Section 7. Students will not be admitted to become candi-
dates for a degree in any department until, upon examination
by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, they are found to have
educational attainments equivalent to the College entrance re-
quirements, as determined by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
under approval of the General Faculty, subject to alteration and
approval by the Board of Trustees. Students seeking to be
enrolled in any department other than the Academy, and who,
upon examination, are not found to have such attainments,
shall be enrolled and separately catalogued.

Section 8. The General Faculty may make or approve
regulations for the assigning and distribution of the scholar-
ships and aids within the disposition of the corporation, for the
allotment of rooms in the dormitories, for the uses of the
library, laboratories, gymnasiums, grounds, buildings and

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property held and designated for school use, and for the con-
duct of students, classes, and associations of students in all de-
partrments, and for the general welfare, subject to the approval
of the Trustees.

Seci'ion 9. Each Faculty shall report through the General
Faculty such permanent or important rules and regulations as
it may make to the Board of Trustees at the next regular
meeting following their adoption, and all such rules and
regulations shall be compiled and printed for the information
of the Board from time to time.

Section 10. The Treasurer and General Faculty shall
jointly report annually in writing to the Trustees the anwunt
of the income received from the scholarship funds and bene-
ficiary aid funds of all kinds, the uses made thereof, and the
names of the holders of the more important scholarships, and
the standing attained by such holders.

Such reports shall be preserved in separate well-bound books
provided for that purpose.

Section 11. Every member of the Faculty will, in addi-
tion to the special instruction of his chair, render a reasonable
share of the general service which comes upon the Faculty in
common, so far as the interests of the College can be thus
secured. The responsibilities, opportunities, and privileges
involved in the representation of the corporation abroad are to
be distributed in like manner.

The President and General Faculty will decide all questions
that may arise as to the apportionment of such general service,
responsibilities, opportunities, and privileges.

Section 12. The scholastic control of all the students is
committed primarily to the respective teachers to whose classes
they are assigned, then to the Faculty of the department con-
cerned, and then to the General Faculty. The Trustees do not

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receive appeals from the students in regard to any matter of
discipline or order administered by the General Faculty.

Section 13. Each instructor has the general control of his
own classes, limited by any general regulations adopted by the
General Faculty. An aggrieved pupil always has the privilege
of appealing to the Faculty.

Section 14. Each instructor in the case of a brief neces-
sary absence from his work is expected to make such arrange-
ment as he can for his classes, securing the approval of the
President or of the General Faculty for the arrangement.

Section 15. When application shall be made to the
Trustees by any teacher for leave of absence for any consid-
erable time with a continuance of salary, or part thereof, the
granting of such application imposes the obligation on the
applicant to return at the close of such leave and continue in the
service of the corporation for a reasonable time thereafter, or
refund the salary paid during absence.

ARTICLE X
Of the General Council

The President, the Assistant to the President, the Deans,
the Director of the Conservatory of Music, the Principal of the
Academy, the Secretary, the Librarian, and the permanent full
professors of all departments of the College, shall form a
General Council, whose duties shall be to receive from the
Departmental Councils all nominations for appointments, and
to transmit the same to the Board of Trustees with their
recommendations. To this Council shall be committed also the
approval of Departmental Budgets and the preparation of the
annual proposal fcr a Budget for general purposes, except
that only two Conservatory professors shall vote on the
General Budget.

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ARTICLE XI

Of the Heads of Departments; of Departmental

Councils

Section 1. The following officers shall be known as heads
of departments of administration, viz.: The Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of the Theological
Seminary, the Principal of the Academy, and the Director of
the Conservatory of Music.

Section 2. The head of each department shall be its
executive officer, and Vice-Chairman of its Departmental
Council and Faculty. He may attend any meeting of any com-
mittee of the Departmental Faculty, and share in its delibera-
tions, but without vote unless made a member of the Com-
mittee, and he is ex-ofUcio Chairman of the Committee on
Appointments and of the Committee on Budget of the Depart-
mental Council, and Chairman of the Committee on Nomina-
tions of the Departmental Faculty. He shall have general
charge of the interests of the department.

Each Departmental Council shall consist of the President,
the head of the department, the Deans, and the permanent
full professors of that department, except that in the Academy
the Council shall consist of the President, the Principal, and
all instructors upon permanent appointment.

The Departmental Council of each department shall have
charge of Departmental Appointments and the Departmental
Budget. It shall communicate to the Board of Trustees,
through the General Council, its acts and recommendations.

ARTICLE XII
Of Discipline
Section 1. All disciplinary officers shall act with the ap-

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proval of the President and the heads of the departments
involved.

Section 2, The disciplinary control of the men of the
College of Arts and Sciences is primarily committed to the
Dean of College Men ; the disciplinary control of the men of
the other departments is primarily committed to the heads of
those departments respectively; under the direction of the
Committee on Discipline and the General Faculty.

Section 3. The Dean of College Men shall be appointed
by the ballot of the Trustees, on the nomination of the General
Council, and shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board
of Trustees. He shall be ex-oMcio Chairmfem of the General
Committee on Discipline.

Section 4. The disciplinary control of the women of the
several departments of the College is primarily committed to
the Dean of College Women, the Dean of Conservatory
Women, and the Dean of Academv Women, respectively, under
the direction of the Women's Board of Managers.

Section 5. The Deans of Women shall be appointed by
ballot of the Trustees, on the nomination of the General
Council, and hold office during the pleasure of the Board of
Trustees, and shall be ex-ofUcio members of the Women's
Board of Managers. The Dean of College Women shall be
ex-oMcio presiding officer of the Women's Board of Managers.

Section 6. The Women's Board of Managers shall consist
of the three Deans above mentioned, together with six other
members, who shall be chosen by the General Faculty, upon
nomination of the Women's Board of Managers, for terms of
three years, and divided into three classes of two members each,
so that the terms of office of two members shall expire each
year.

Section 7. The Women's Board of Managers shall have
authority to make and change rules and regulations, subject

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to the approval of the General Faculty, for the discipline,
deportment, and good order of the women pursuing studies in
any of the departments of the College.

Section 8. The Women's Board of Managers shall hold
monthly meetings and other rrteetings at the call of the Dean
of College Women ; or, upon request of three other members
of the Board. They shall advise with the Deans on all matters
pertaining to the discipline, deportment, and good order of
the women of the College ; and shall hear appeals from students
alleging grievances in the administration of the regulations.

Section 9. The several Dieans of Women shall be primari-
ly responsible for the discipline, deportment, and good order
of the women in their respective departments, but concerning .
all the general interests of the College they shall constitute a
committee of conference, and all cases of discipline requiring
the action of the Women's Board shall be brought before
this committee of Deans of Women, and action be recom-
mended by them to the Board. The Dean of College Women
shall be ex-oMcio Chairman of this committee.

ARTICLE XIII
Of Degrees; of the Committee on Honorary Degrees

Section 1. The Trustees will consider eligible for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) any person nominated by
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences through the General Faculty
who has completed a four years' course of study in the arts and
sciences and passed examinations satisfactory to the Depart-
mental Faculty.

This shall not preclude the conferring of any other primary
degree on proper occasion for work performed.

Section 2. The Trustees will consider eligible for the
degree of Bachelor of Divinity (D.B.) any person nominated

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by the Faculty of the Theological Seminary through the
General Faculty who has theretofore received a degree from an
institution approved for the purpose by the Departmental
Faculty, representing four years of study in the arts and
sciences, and has completed a three years* course pf study in
theology and passed examinations satisfactory to the Depart-
mental Faculty.

Section 3. The Trustees will consider eligible for the
degree of Bachelor of Music (Mus.B.) any person nominated
by the Faculty of the Conservatory of Music through the
General Faculty who has theretofore, upon examination by the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, been found to have educational
attainments equivalent to the College entrance requirements,
and has completed a course of study in music equivalent to at
least four years' work therein, and passed examinations satis-
factory to the Departmental Faculty.

Section 4. Certificates of merit may be given by the
General Faculty upon nomination of the Departmental Fac-
ulty for work done by students in any department.

Section 5. The Trustees will consider eligible for the
degree of Master of Arts (A.M.) any person nominated by the
General Faculty and holding the degree of A. B. from this
corporation, or holding a degree deemed equivalent thereto by
the General Faculty, who, while in residence, shall have com-
pleted a one year's course of study in the arts and sciences and
passed examinations satisfactory to the Faculty of the College
of Arts and Sciences, and shall have satisfactorily met the re-
quirements published in the annual catalogue governing
graduate study.

Section 6. The Board may at any time, by a vote of three-
fourths of the members present, confer honoris causa on those
whom they may deem worthy, such honors and degrees as are
usually conferred honoris causa in similar institutions.

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Section 7. A committee on honorary degrees shall be ap-
pointed annually, consisting of the President and two Trustees.

Section 8. All proposals for honorary degrees shall be
made through the President of the College and shall be in
writing, stating the reasons upon which the proposal is based.

Section 9. Proposals for honorary degrees shall be re-
ferred by the President to the Committee and also to a similar
Committee appointed by the General Faculty from its own
members. If either Committee recommends the proposal to
the Board action will be taken thereon.

The reasons should show the person proposed entitled to the
honor upon one or more of the following grounds :

(1) That he is the author of some original work of such
a character as to leave no doubt of the learning, attainments,
and literary professional ability of the writer ; or,

(•2) That in addition to the other claims for recognition
for distinguished ability and learning be holds an honorable
office, position in some university, college or school of law,
of medicine, of theology, or of science, of good repute in this
country or elsewhere ; or,

(3) That he is a man of acknowledged eminence in some
one or more of the following directions, viz. : (a) in letters,
or (&) in science, or (c) in some of the learned professions,
or (d) in the public service.

ARTICLE XIV
Of the Meetings of the Board of Trustees.

Section 1. The regular meetings of the Board shall be as
follows :

The annual meeting, which shall occur in Oberlin on the
first Wednesday of December.

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The semi-annual meeting, which shall occur in Oberlin on
the Monday preceding commencement.

Section 2. Special and called meetings may be held at
any time in accordance with the charter.

If at any time between regular meetings the President shall
ascertain that a majority of the Trustees prefer a later date
for any regular meeting, the President may postpone the same
from the dates fixed above to any date not more tlian four
weeks thereafter, and of which regular notice shall be given.

Section 3. No nomination of a member of the Board of
Trustees (other than the Alumni trustees), nor of a permanent
professor, shall be ratified by the Trustees, and no person shall
be elected a President, Treasurer, Secretary, head of depart-
n^nt, a Trustee, or permanent professor except at a regular
meeting, or at a special meeting held on at least seven days'
notice.

Section 4. There shall always be presented to the Board
of Trustees in well-bound books kept for that purpose, signed
copies of such votes of the Committees and Faculties as are
laid before the Board of Trustees for confirmation.

Section 5. Order of Business,

At the regular meetings of the Board the order of business,
unless changed by vote, shall be as follows :

(1) Call to order; prayer; roll-call.

(2) Reading of minutes of preceding meeting and action
thereon.

(3) Reading of proceedings of Prudential Committee and
action thereon.

(4) Reports (with their Exhibits).

(a) of President:
(fr) of Treasurer;

(d) of Investment Committee.

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(5) Reports of other standing committees.

(a) of Committee on Appointments;

(6) of Committee on Nomination of Trustees ;

{c) of Committee on Honorary Degrees.

(6) Report of Special Committees.

(7) Report of Advisory Committees.

(8) Unfinished Business.

(9) New Business.

Section 6. Roberts' Rules of Order, so far as applicable,
shall be the parliamentary authority of the Board.

ARTICLE XV
Of the Advisory Committees
Section 1. Permanent Advisory Committees shall be chosen
for each of the following departments or branches of the cor-
poration and its work :

a. The Seminary.

b. The Academy.

c. The Conservatory.

rf. The Course of Instruction in Drawing and Painting.

e. The Library.

/. The Ancient Languages.

g. The Modern Languages.

h. Philosophy.

t. History.

/. Mathematics.

k. The Biological Sciences.

/. The Physical Sciences.

m. The Athletics, Discipline, Gymnasium, and Physical

Training for Men.
n. The Athletics, Discipline, Gymnasium, and Physical

Training for Women.
0, Economics, Political Science and Sociology.

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Section 2. Each Advisory Committee shall have power to
visit the department or portion of the College to which it is
assigned, and to inspect and examine the work and conditions
therein.

Section 3. Each Advisory Committee shall make a report,
in writing, at least once in three years, and also at such other
times as the Committee may desire, or the Board of Trustees
may from time to time request, to the Board of Trustees upon
the work, conditions, merits, and needs of the department or
portion of the College to which it is assigned. Such report
may also embrace any recommendations or other matters
which the Committee see fit to incorporate therein. Such Com-
mittee may also make further reports whenever they desire or
the Board of Trustees may request. The reports of the Ad-
visory Committee shall be preserved in well-bound books for
that purpose and suitably indexed for the use of the Trustees
and officers of instruction and government of the corporation.

Section 4. Such reports shall be filed with the Secretary
of the Board of Trustees at least three weeks prior to the
annual meeting of the Board, and in the discretion of the
President be distributed to the Trustees With the other reports.

Section 5. Each Advisory Committee shall consist of three
members, one of whom shall be a imember of the Board of
Trustees. The Committees shall be chosen as follows: At
the meeting of the Board of Trustees occurring next after the
adoption hereof, the Board of Trustees shall appoint the mem-
bers of each Advisory Committee. The names of the members
of each Committee so appointed shall thereupon be divided
by lot into three classes, consisting of one member whose term
shall be for three years, one member whose term shall be for
two years, and one member whose term shall be for one year.
At each annual meeting of the Board of Trustees thereafter

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the successors to the members whose terms expire thereat
shall be chosen for the term of three years.

Section 6. The term of each member of a Committee shall
begin at the close of the annual Trustees* meeting at which he
is appointed.

Section 7. Any vacancy in the Advisory Committees oc-
curring when the Board of Trustees is not in session may be
filled by appointment by the President for the unexpired term.

Section 8. The meetings of the Conlmittees shall be held
at such time as they may elect or provide by rule therefor, or as
the President from time to time requests.

Section 9. The several Advisory Committees may, at the
request of the Board of Trustees, or at their own option, assem-
ble at any time for conference together, in which case they
shall organize in accordance with parliamentary usage for
temporary organization.

ARTICLE XVI

Of Amendments

Amendments to these By-Laws may be adopted at any regular
meeting, or at any special meeting notice of which with the
amendment proposed shall have been given at least seven days
before the meeting.

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ALUMNI ASSCX:iATIONS
GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS
COLLEGE ASSOCIATION

President — Mr. Louis L. Nichols, '87, 386 Stuyvesant Avenue,

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Vice Presidents— Dr. Dan F. Bradley, '82, 2905 14th Street,

S. W., Cleveland, O.; Rev. Archibald Hadden, '77, 125

Houston Avenue, Muskegon, Mich.; Mr. Eldward A.

Miller, '97, 184 Forest Street, Oberlin, O.
Secretary — George M. Jones, '94, Oberlin, O.

The membership includes all graduates of the College, the
Theological Seminary, the Conservatory of Music, and all
holders of honorary degrees bestowed by the College.

The annual meeting is held in Oberlin on Tuesday morning
of commencement week. The Alumni Dinner occurs on
Wednesday, Commencement Day.

Six of the Trustees of Oberlin College are elected to their
office by the ballot of all Alumni of the College, one vacancy
occurring in the board at each annual meeting.

THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

President— Rev. Levi S. Bickford, '71, 224 West College

Street, Oberlin, O.
Secretary — Professor L. F. Miskovsky, '91, Oberlin, O.

The annual meeting is held immediately following the com-
mencement exercises of the Theological Department, in May
of each year.

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS
NEW ENGLAND UNION, FOUNDED IN 1877

President — Rev. Charles A. Brand, '95, 14 Beacon Street,
Boston, Mass.

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Corresponding Secretary — Miss Minnie May, '98, 201 Claren-
don Street, Boston, Mass.

Recording Secretary and Treasurer — Mr. Ethelbert V. Grabill,
'96, 720 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.

NEW YORK ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN

President — Dr. Louis L. Nichols, '87, 386 Stuyvesant Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Secretary — Mr. Franklin H. Warner, '98, 141 Broadway, New-
York, N. Y.

Treasurer — Mr. Charles W. McCandless, '94, 35 Nassau
Street, New York, N. Y.
Annual meeting in March or April in each year.

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1870

President— Mr. Newton Wyeth, '79, 1320 Ashland Block,

Chicago, 111.
Secretary and Treasurer — Mr. James S. Hardy, '01, 204 Dear-
born Street, Chicago, 111.
Annual meeting in March or April of each year.

NORTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1881

President — Mr. Edwin S. Slater, '83, 517 Guaranty Building,

Minneapolis, Minn.
Secretary — Mr. Charles W. Purple, '83, 124 Bedford Avenue,

Minneapolis, Minn.

MIDLAND ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1889

President — Mrs. George C. Mosher, '80, 3612 Locust Street,

Kansas City, Mo.
Secretary — Mr. Henry J. Haskell, '96, 2423 Tracy Avenue,

Kansas City, Mo.
Treasurer— Dr. Scott P. Child, '92, 3700 Central Avenue,

Kansas Qty, Mo.

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MISSOURI VALLEY ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN

President —

Secretary — Rev. H. A. French, '68, Lincoln, Neb.

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1893

President— Mr. William A. Dick. '90, 910 Chislett Street,

Pittsburgh, Pa.
Vice President — Mrs. James G. G^egan, '96, 5632 Margaretta

Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Secretary — Mrs. R. F. Emery, '91, 132 Hawthorne Street,

Edgewood Park, Swissvale P. O., Pa.
Annual meeting in April of each year.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN

President— Rev. C. G. Baldwin, D.D., '73, Palo Alto, Cal.
Vice President — Mrs. H. E. Martin, Berkeley, Cal.
Secretary and Treasurer — Rev. H. B. Mowbray, Hotel Albany,
Oakland, Cal!

RED RIVER VALLEY ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1898

President— Mr. E. T. Curtis, ex-'66, Fargo, N. D.
Secretary and Treasurer — Mr. A. A. Love, '88, Fargo, N. D.
Annual meeting in February or March of each year.

CENTRAL NEW YORK ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1903

President— Mr. William H. Scott, '70, 215 Erie Street, Syra-
cuse, N. Y.

Secretary — Professor A. S. Patterson, '95, 415 University
Place, Syracuse, N. Y.

Treasurer — Mr. Marshall W. Downing, '94, 733 South Beech
Street, Syracuse, N. Y.
Annual meeting in March or April of each year.

NORTHWESTERN OHIO ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1903

President— Rev. Ernest B. Allen, t.'03, 1933 Washington
Street, Toledo, O.

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Vice Presicknt — Miss Grace L. Gibson, '86, 13 East Woodruff

Avenue, Toledo, O.
Secretary and Treasurer — Mrs. E. F. Gleason, '80, 1011

Grand Avenue, Toledo, O.
Annual meeting on the second Friday in February.

CLEVELAND ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1905

President — Mr. Homer H. Johnson, '85, 1009 American Trust

Building, Cleveland, O.
Vice President — Miss Harriet L. Keeler, '70, 93 Olive Street,

Qeveland, O.
Secretary and Treasurer — Mr. Albert H. Fiebach, '99, 818

Society for Savings Building, Cleveland, O.

SOUTH DAKOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION^ FOUNDED IN 1905

President— Rev. Samuel J. Beach, '75, Redfield, S. D.
Secretary— Mr. George L. W. Kilbon, '99, Letcher, S. D.

NEBRASKA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1906

President— Mr. Gerdon W. Noble, '85, 638-640 Bee Building,

Omaha, Neb.
Vice President — Miss Lucy M. Haywood, '94, 1441 G Street,

Lincoln, Neb.
Secretary — Mr. Fredrique P. Loomis, '96, Room 6, U. S.

National Bank Building, Omaha, Neb.

OHIO VALLEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, FOUNDED IN 1906

President— Mr. Theodore C. Jung, '98, 31-33 Atlas Bank

Building, Cincinnati, O.
Secretary— Mr. Charles C. Kirkpatrick, '92, 501-502 Union

Trust Building, Cincinnati, O.
Treasurer— Mr. Albert C. Shattuck, '78, 313-314 Johnston

Building, Cincinnati, O.

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Academy, report of Principal, 41,
200; instruction in, 157, 200;
methods of work, 200 ; Canvas-
ser for, 29, 31, 201.

Administration Building, need
of, 31, iia

Administrative Offices, changes
and appointments, 25; reports
of, 26.

Admission, of students, 125;
classification, 126; to advanced
standing, 127; as freshmen
and college specials, 129; sub-
jects presented by freshmen
for, 134; credits of conserva-
tory students for, 138 ; require-
ments for, 133.

Advisory Committees, xiv, 91,

Advisory Officer, report of, 38.

Alumni, deaths of, 87; Living
Endowment Union, 89; closer
relations with, 89; Bureau of
Appointments, 89; vote for
alumni trustees, 146, 272.

Alumni Magazine, 21,

Alumni Record, 91.

Alumni Trustee, vote for, 146.

Anatomy, instruction and at-
tendance, 223.

Anniversary, seventy-fifth, 10.

Appointments, new, 54; Bureau
of, 89.

Archaeology, Classical, 62, 225.

Artist Recitals, 109, 196.

Art, History of, work of depart-
ment, 229.

Art Exhibition, 68.

Assigning Officer, 40.

Assistant to the President, report
of, 26.

Astronomy, and Physics, work of

department, 72, 223.
Athletic Association, report of,

158.
Athletics, 93; report of Director,

211 ; report of Association, 158.
Attendance, 92.
Auditing Committee, report of,

271.
Bequests, 248.
Beneficiary Funds, Secretary's

report on, 141.
Bible, English, work of depart-

ment, 70, 223, 234, 236.
Bibliography, 60, 224.
Botany, work of department, 74,

224, 23a
Budget, 11.
Buildings and Grounds, report of

Superintendent, 44, 2ia
Bulletin, of Oberlin College, pub-
lication, 123.
Bureau of Appointments, 89.
By-Laws, 281.

Carnegie, Mr, Andrew, gift of, 19.
Carnegie Foundation for Ad*

vancement of Teaching, Trus-
tee Resolution, 10.
Catalogue, new general, 17; 123.
Chapel, Finney Memorial, 10, 15;

use of First Church as, 16.
Charter, and By-Laws, 273.
Chemistry, work of department,

73,224.
Christian Evidences, 225.
Church History, 77.
Colleges, relations to other, 106.
Colored Students, number of, 152.

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Committees, List of, for 1906-07,
vili — xlli; Prudential, actions
of, 12; Advisory, xiv; Failure
In Scholarship, 100.

Concerts, Lectures and, 108.

Conservatory, admission credits
of students in, 138; report of
Director, 40, 197; faculty
changes, 193; Artist Recitals,
196; students In. 197; instruc-
tion in, 198; students of col-
lege rank, 198; degrees, 199.

Constituency, breadth of, 92.

Correspondence, with students,
125.

Council Hall, use of by college, 18.

Dean of College and Graduate
Men, report of, 36, 174.

Deans of Women, 37. \

Dean of College and Graduate '
Women, report of, 37, 182. i

Dean of Conservatory Women, j
report of, 38, 184. |

Dean of Academy Women, report
of, 38, 187.

Dean of Theological Seminary,
report of, 35, 171.

Death, of Rev. Judson Smith,
D.D., 1.

Debate, Oratory and, 230.

l>eclamation, 237.

Degrees and Diplomas, 148, 199.

Departments of Instruction, com-
parative enrolment in, 155^

Director of Conservatory of Mu-
sic, report of, 40, 193.

Director of Athletics, appoint-
ment of, 7; report of, 43.

Directory, of Faculty and Stu-
dents, 123.

Discipline, 94.

Donors, 20.

Dormitories, board in, 17.

Drawing and Painting, work of
department, 68.

Economics and Sociology, work
of department, 78, 225.

Electives, 191.

Endowment, Half-Million Fund,
19; Library, 20; other gifts,
24; summary of, 249.

English, work of department, 66,

225, 237.
Enrolment, college, 125; analysis

of, 125; classification of, 126;

general. 150 ; fall of 1906, 153 ;

in Conservatory, 197; for fif-
teen years, table, 154.
Entrance Credits, requirements,

133.
Equipment, material, 114; gains,

114.

Faculty, resignations, 49; leave
of absence, 50 ; promotions, 51 ;
reappointments, 53; new ap-
pointments, 54 ; organization,
57; important official actions,
59; reports, 60; publications,
107.

French, 226, 238.

Funds, beneficiary, 141 ; loan,
144; other, 145.

Gains, in material equipment,
114; in enrolment of students,
154.

Geology, work of department, 75,
227.

German Language and Litera-
ture, work of department, 63,
228, 238.

Gifts, reported by the Treasurer,
23, 246 ; other, 24.

Graduate Scholarships, 100.

Greek, and Greek Archaeology,
work of department, 62, 225,
228, 238.

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Cfytnnasia:
Men's Gymnasium, report of
Director, 42, 207; finances,
207; use of, 208; Teachers*
Course in Physical Training,
209.
Women's Gymnasium, report
of Director, 43 ; 213 ; use of,
213; Gymnasium and Field
Association, 215 ; Teachers'
Course in Physical Training,
216; courses in. 216; enrol-
ment In. 217.
Oytnnaaium and Field Associa-
tion, 215.
Half-Million Fund, 19.
Harmony of Science and Revela-
tion, work of department, 83.
Health, of Students, 92; of men,

174; of women, 182.
High Schools, sending students

to Oberlin, 129.
History, work of department, 77,
228, 239 ; of Art, 225 ; Church,
77.
History and Criticism of Music,

85.
Homiletics, work of department.

68. 235.
Influence, outside. 107; college
publications. 107; lectures and
concerts, 108; outside work
and lectures, 112.
Instruction, statistics of, 221 ; in
College, 223; in Theological
Seminary, 234; in Academy,
236; In Conservatory. 198.
Instruction Units, 86, 155.
Interval Between High School
(Graduation and College Regis-
tration, 139.
Languages, Instruction in. 63-66;
Hebrew, 234; Greek, 62. 225.
228. 238; Latin, 62, 229, 239;
German, 63. 228, 238; English,
66, 225. 237.

Latin Language and Literature,
work of department, 62, 229,
239.

Leave of Absence, 50.

Lectures and Concerts, 108; and
outside work, 112.

Librarian, report of, 35, 161.

Library, New Carnegie, 15, 168;
endowment of, 19; growth of,
161; condition of, 161; addi-
tions to, 162; work of the
year, 166.

Living Endowment Union, 89.

Loan Funds, Secretary's report
on, 144.

Material Equipment, 114; gains,
114; needs, 114.

Mathematics, work of depart-
ment, 71, 229, 240.

Men, proportion of, 152; Dean's
report on, 176.

Mineralogy, 230.

Museum, report of, 76.

Music, History of, 230.

Music Hall, need of, 195.

Necrology, 87.

Needs, 114.

New Testament Language and
Literature, work of depart-
ment. 61, 234.

Nonreturn of College Students,
140, 189.

Oberlin College, Charter and By-
Laws, 273.

Officers and Teachers, 147.

Ohio, students from, 151.

Old Testament Language and Lit-
erature, work of department,
61, 234.

Oratory and Rhetoi'ic, work of
department, 67, 230.

Outside Influence, 107.

Outside Work and Lectures, 112.

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Painting, Drawing and, 68.

Pedagogy, work of department,
83 231.

Philosophy and Psychology, work
of department, 82, 84, 231.

Physical Training, Physiology
and, 76. 231 ; Teacliers' Ck)ur8e,
for Men, 233 ; for Women, 233.

Physics and Astronomy, work of
department, 72, 232, 241.

Physiology and Physical Train-
ing, work of department, 76,
231.

Political Science, 232.

President, report of, 1-116; work
of, 44.

Principal of Academy, report of,
41,200.

Professional and Technical
Schools, relation to, 106.

Promotions, 51.

Prudential Committee, xili, im-
portant actions of, 12.

Publications, Ck)llege. 107, 123;
Faculty, 107; students, 107.

Reappointments, 53.

Records, official and statistics,
146.

Registrar, report of, 39. 188;
statistics of Class of 1906,
188; non-return of students,
189; special students, 190;
electives, 191.

Relations, to other educational
institutions, 106; professional
and technical schools, 106.

Religious Life, 101.

Reports, see Contents, ill, first
semester, for freshmen, 139.

Resignations, 49.

Rhetoric, Oratory and, 67, 230.

Romance Languages and Litera-
tures, work of department, 64,
226, 229, 238.

Sacred Rhetoric and Practical
Theology, work of department,
68.

Salaries, increased, 6.
Scholarship, failure In, 100, 191.
Scholarships, graduate, 100 ; Sec-
retary's report on, 141.

Secondary Schools, relation to.
106.

Secretary, report of, 30, 119-160.
Semester Reports, for freshmen.
139.

Slavic Department, trustee ac-
tion, 9; Prudential Committee
action, 12; work of depart-
ment, 84, 236.

Social Life, 100.

Sociology, Economics and, 78,
225. -» "»

Specials, college, 129, 190.

Statistics, official records and,
146 ; of Instruction, 223 ; of en-
rolment, 154 ; of Class of 1906,
188.

Students, attendance, 92 ;
breadth of constituency, 92;
health, 92; athletics, 93; dis-
cipline, 94; scholarship, 100;
graduate scholarships, 100 ;
social life, 100; religious life,
101; admission of, 125; classi-
fication of, 126; admitted to
advanced standing, 127; ad-
mitted as freshmen and col-
1 ge specials, 129; non-return
of, 139; general enrolment.
150; from Ohio, 151; number
of colored. 152 ; in the Conser-
vatory, 197 ; in Summer School,
203.

Subjects, presented by freshmen
for admission, 134.

Summer School, report of Chair-
man, 42, 202; students In, 206;
finances of, 204; registration
In, 206.

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Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, 44, 218.

Teachers* Course, in Physical
Training, 209, 216.

Technical Schools, relation to,
106.

Theological Seminary, report of
Dean, 35, 171 ; attendance, 171 ;
Slavic Department, 172; prog-
ress of, 173; instruction in,
234.

Theology, work of department,

84, 234.
Treasurer, report of, 29, 243.

Treasurer's Statement, 245 ;
gifts, 246; income and expense
for the year, 250-256; funds

and balances, 257, 258; sum-
mary of assets, 2G&; buildings
and equipment, 270.

Trustees, list of, vii ; election of,
4; work of, 4; official actions,
6; Tote for alumni trustees,
146, 272; actions, December
5th, 1906, 272.

Walworth Fund, 12.

Women^s Department, report of,
37, 180 ; report of Gymnasium,
42, 213; Women's Board, xiii.

Y. M, C, A„ lOl'.

Y. W. C. A„ 101, 103.

Zoology, work of department,
75, 233, 241.

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